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RideorDieStar

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Aug 6, 2011
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I want to give my MacBook Air to my Mom but I need to restore the hard drive and I don't have the original install DVD. Is there anyway to do the restore without it?
 
I want to give my MacBook Air to my Mom but I need to restore the hard drive and I don't have the original install DVD. Is there anyway to do the restore without it?


Mac os Lion automatically creates a recovery partition after it's installed,
all you need to do now is restarting your air then press and hold option key,
select the recovery hd and it will take you to the same steps that you reinstall with a physical disc.
 
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