Greetings, this is going to be a long post so Ill try to be concise.
I have a macbook air 11 with 120GB HDD. It came with mountain lion but I upgraded through the app store to Mavericks
I had a bootcamp Windows 7 partition. While uninstalling it there was some error (not much info shown). From what I could tell my Windows partition was removed but the OSX one wasnt resized to the full disc.
I tried Internet recovery but every time I tried I got different error codes.
I tried using the disc boot selector (pressing alt at boot) and choosing the recovery partition, however an error is show and right after the mac shuts down.
I tried using disc utility to expand partition but there was an error.
So I followed this tutorial - http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/05/fix-partition-failed-error-mac/
and it fixed my problem. I have all the disc space for the only partition, the osx one.
The problem is, the issues I had before with the recovery partition still remain. I wont be able to fix future issues through them. And I cant recover time machine backups to previous versions.
I have a time machine backup with Mountain lion (made before upgrading to Mavericks), I wouldnt mind going back. but there is no way I can access the recovery boot now.
I thinking about using the Recovery Disk Assistant for Mountain lion I download from the apple site and installed on a usb pen but Im not sure what this will do.
Thanks
Cheers
I have a macbook air 11 with 120GB HDD. It came with mountain lion but I upgraded through the app store to Mavericks
I had a bootcamp Windows 7 partition. While uninstalling it there was some error (not much info shown). From what I could tell my Windows partition was removed but the OSX one wasnt resized to the full disc.
I tried Internet recovery but every time I tried I got different error codes.
I tried using the disc boot selector (pressing alt at boot) and choosing the recovery partition, however an error is show and right after the mac shuts down.
I tried using disc utility to expand partition but there was an error.
So I followed this tutorial - http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/05/fix-partition-failed-error-mac/
and it fixed my problem. I have all the disc space for the only partition, the osx one.
The problem is, the issues I had before with the recovery partition still remain. I wont be able to fix future issues through them. And I cant recover time machine backups to previous versions.
I have a time machine backup with Mountain lion (made before upgrading to Mavericks), I wouldnt mind going back. but there is no way I can access the recovery boot now.
I thinking about using the Recovery Disk Assistant for Mountain lion I download from the apple site and installed on a usb pen but Im not sure what this will do.
Thanks
Cheers