How can I recreate the recovery partiton

Kemical · Jul 3, 2011, 08:36 PM

Is there a way to recreate the Lion recovery partition? Due to some drive swapping/imaging I deleted mine and would like to get it back.

Lord Appleseed · Jul 3, 2011, 11:10 PM

Reinstall Lion. The Installation will see that it is missing and creates the partition.

Kemical · Jul 4, 2011, 01:11 PM

Thanks, that worked perfectly!

hellfried · Jul 5, 2011, 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Kemical

Is there a way to recreate the Lion recovery partition? Due to some drive swapping/imaging I deleted mine and would like to get it back.

I did not do a clean install but upgraded straight to lion GM. Where do I find the recovery partition?

Lord Appleseed · Jul 5, 2011, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by hellfried

I did not do a clean install but upgraded straight to lion GM. Where do I find the recovery partition?

You can't, it's hidden. If you need to recover then press "alt" on startup before the Apple logo appears.

hellfried · Jul 5, 2011, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Appleseed

You can't, it's hidden. If you need to recover then press "alt" on startup before the Apple logo appears.

Thanks for that!

Cynicalone · Jul 5, 2011, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Appleseed

You can't, it's hidden. If you need to recover then press "alt" on startup before the Apple logo appears.

No it is "Command" and "R"

EDIT: But I suppose Option would get you to the HDD selection screen as well.

Lord Appleseed · Jul 5, 2011, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Cynicalone

EDIT: But I suppose Option would get you to the HDD selection screen as well.

Yes. Because thats what i do all the time when changing to Win7.

atlasica · Oct 27, 2011, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Appleseed

Reinstall Lion. The Installation will see that it is missing and creates the partition.

I have a Bootcamp partition, will doing this break it when the Lion installer recreates the recovery partition?

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