Recovery Mode

iampaulb · Jul 26, 2012, 03:25 AM

Lion came with Recovery Mode enabling you to hold option R on boot to access the recovery partition to install a clean install.

Is this still included in ML ? Would be the easiest way to do a clean install surely?

1. download.
2. install ML as an upgrade
3. reboot, hold option + r
4. install ML from recovery partition as a clean install?

Or would it be easier to just save it to a USB?

Weaselboy · Jul 26, 2012, 08:48 AM

Either way will work. I would make the USB to avoid doing the download twice.

If you do the Recovery HD method that will have to DL Mountain Lion all over again.

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iampaulb macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: London	Recovery Mode Lion came with Recovery Mode enabling you to hold option R on boot to access the recovery partition to install a clean install. Is this still included in ML ? Would be the easiest way to do a clean install surely? 1. download. 2. install ML as an upgrade 3. reboot, hold option + r 4. install ML from recovery partition as a clean install? Or would it be easier to just save it to a USB? __________________ 27" iMac, 2.93Ghz i7, 12GB, ATI HD5750, 1TB \| iPhone 5 \| iPad Mini. Hackintosh i3 3.30Ghz Ivy Bridge, Gigabyte H77N-WIFI, 4GB, 120GB SSD, 3TB Behold my... Twitter YouTube
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Jul 26, 2012, 08:48 AM	#2
Weaselboy macrumors 604 Join Date: Jan 2005	Either way will work. I would make the USB to avoid doing the download twice. If you do the Recovery HD method that will have to DL Mountain Lion all over again.
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