It's away...
Thank you Comeagain?
That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Now for me to find out how to make backups of mountain lion since I'm such a newbie to mac
Oh I agree, I wish it were upgradeable as well
Most likely a capitalistic profit move on Apple's part. Negative nancy was too harsh a term and I apologize since I understand the frustration.
Just wanted to make sure that I can keep Mountain Lion on here so that it remains as blazing fast as it is right now. Unlike my iPhone where if I upgrade to the next iOS there is no going back
grrrrr
Backing up Mountain Lion
1) Buy a 16GB flash drive (or smaller depending what you want)
2) Put flash drive in USB2/3 port
2a) Goto Utilities in Applications in the Finder and Format the
Flash Drive to [Mac OS Extended] using Disk Utility call it "Backup" (or whatever)
3) Download Carbon Copy Cloner (<3.5 equals free, >3.5 ML savvy)
4) Launch Carbon Copy Cloner
5) Goto Menu Item Window->Disk Center->Recovery HD (Tab)
6) Select the Flash Drive "Backup"
7) Click on [Create Recovery HD on Backup]
8) I do re-clone the recovery HD volume on this disk, because it allows me to select mountain lion, and it states that it is from "Macintosh HD", I don't know if he includes a Recovery Image somewhere in the App (Doubt it)
You have a different option if you want, you can re-install the OS from the Recovery Partition holding down option, and then finding the install image you can clone it over to a 8GB flash drive and have an installer, but you would have to re-install the OS to get the install file, downloaded while in Recovery mode.
What I like to do when I get a new MacBook is clone the Recovery to a 16GB flash drive and then Carbon Copy over the HD to the Flash takes about 2 hours USB2, haven't done USB3 yet. But I usually use an external to boot off of before I ever use the COmputer.
So two options:
A) Re-install from Recovery Part (wiping the drive basically) to get the Mountain Lion Image (Look for those instructions they are everywhere)
B) Clone the Recovery Partition to a 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB etc Flash Drive
If you just clone the Recovery Partition you end up with a bootable flash drive that you can insert at anytime and reformat the internal drive and re-install Mountain Lion by downloading it from APple. Not to mention reformat your drive in any way (partitions) you want for more added fun down the road
Laters...