Create new recovery partition

[sjfwhite]

Hey folks - I just joined the developer program to get the GM of Lion and installed it. I have a Momentus XT hd that Snow Leopard had some issues with and wanted to give it a shot with Lion as I heard that many of the issue were solved with 10.7. I cloned the hd onto the Momentus XT but it didn't clone the recovery partition. Is there a utility for creating a new recovery partition on the new drive? Thanks!

 

[mullet]

I was wondering the same thing. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this yet. I'm hoping a future update to Carbon Copy Cloner includes the recovery partition.

 

[pdpfilms]

Hey folks - I just joined the developer program to get the GM of Lion and installed it. I have a Momentus XT hd that Snow Leopard had some issues with and wanted to give it a shot with Lion as I heard that many of the issue were solved with 10.7. I cloned the hd onto the Momentus XT but it didn't clone the recovery partition. Is there a utility for creating a new recovery partition on the new drive? Thanks!

I just switched out my laptop drive for a moments, and I have the same problem. I'm guessing it's a product of the Momentus being a hybrid drive... Apple says Lion can't create recovery partitions on RAID drives, and perhaps this is just close enough to a RAID to interfere.

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

I just switched out my laptop drive for a moments, and I have the same problem. I'm guessing it's a product of the Momentus being a hybrid drive... Apple says Lion can't create recovery partitions on RAID drives, and perhaps this is just close enough to a RAID to interfere.

Not at all. Most cloning methods only clone the partition you have selected, not every partition on the HDD.

 

[balamw]

Apple does offer a tool to help create a recovery partition on external media.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848

This could be useful here.

The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari. This drive can be used in the event you cannot start your computer with the built-in Recovery HD, or you have replaced the hard drive with a new one that does not have Mac OS X installed.

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