Title says it all, I'm curious to know because I haven't found one in the box. Is that normal? I had a 2010 MacBook Air and remember it did feature one.
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Does the July 2011 MacBook Air come with a software reinstall drive?
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It comes with a restore partition, as well as Internet Restore (in case the restore partition is corrupted). Reboot while pressing CMD-R and it should start it up if you ever need it.
Restore partition?
can you provide more details on this? being that i have the 64gb model, and that OSx is installable over the internet without an OS on the machine, why does it need a restore partition and how much space is that actually using?
It might be worth it to just blow that away.
It's just shy of 700MB. It contains a minimal install of Mac OS X that can download a copy of Lion and install it on the primary partition, and it also contains some diagnostic utilities. It's really more trouble than it's worth to get rid of it.
Code:
AirBook:vm multifinder$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS MacBook SSD 119.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3