650M Recovery partition

650M Recovery partition delete my disk. How do the terminal command to create a new hidden in the Apple boot partition?

I managed to fix the problem.  First I used Disk Utility to delete the NTFS partition.  It hung during the process, so I quit it, and the partition was deleted anyway.  Next, I used gdisk to change the partition type from 0700 to AF00 and AB00 for the Lion and Recovery partitions respectively.  It worked and I can access the partitions under OSX again.  Thanks, everybody, you've been super helpful.

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  • HT4718 How do I install the seperate system recovery partition after installing OSX on an external drive?

    My Mac Mini (2011 - Mountain Lion) died on me and I'm trying to get Internet Recovery (or ANY recovery) to work.  I have done the hold down D on boot hardware test and the extensive test and it says all is well. However Internet Recovery downloads (or appears to) and then I just get a never-ending spinning wheel and Apple logo. 
    I just installed Lion 10.7 from my older Mini that can't run Mountain Lion onto the newer Mini's hard drive as an external disk.  How can I get the recovery partition added to that disk too?

    Google recovery disk assistant. Hopefully that'll be what you need.

  • The guide to bootcamp assistant states that bootcamp can only be installed on a drive with a single partition. New Macs with Lion preinstalled have two partitions - the second is a recovery partition.  How do I install Bootcamp?

    Late in August 2011 I took delivery of a new 27" iMac with Lion preinstalled.  I need to run Windows as well. Following Apple's written suggestion, I printed off the then current 12 pages of the document "Bootcamp Installation & Setup Guide" which clearly stated that the hard drive you were going to install on had to have on it, before install, a maximum of one partition.  Using finder and disk utility I determined that there was only one partition.  Unbeknownst to me, there was (is) an additional hidden (from those two pieces of software) partition on the disk.  As of machines delivered new with Lion preinstalled, Apple has begun to include a "recovery partition".  In that partition there is a copy of the software necessary to reinstall Lion via a download from the Apple App Store.  Not knowing the partition was there, I cranked up  "Bootcamp Assistant" which nicely offered to repartition my hard drive creating a "Bootcamp Partition" in addition to the existing.  I told it how big to make each and hit the do it button, subsequently destroying my operating system.  Oh, it very nicely told me, after the damage was done, how many partitions were REALLY on the disk and that I could not install Bootcamp cause there were too many partitions.
    Luckily the the Recovery Partition, which at that point I knew existed, was not harmed and after doing some research on another compter, I used it to once again download Lion from the App Store and reinstall. So, I have recovered but am still stuck with the problem:  how do I install Bootcamp in this new environment?

    First you need to seriously back up your Mac.
    A clone is an exact duplicate of your existing Mac HDD. Merely copying and pasting a drive will not make a bootable backup. In case of problems you can boot from an Ext HDD clone and use the utilities to repair, reformat, or clone the Ext HDD back to the internal Mac HDD.  While Time machine back ups are easy you can not boot from it. The best thing to have for any kind of problem is a bootable clone backup on an external drive. Some even have two external backup drives in case one fails. There are two good apps for cloning named SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner.
    In dealing with the recovery partition a simple approach is to clone the Mac partition to an external disk then re-partition the Mac to a single partition (GUID partition table) . Then clone the external disk clone back to the Mac. You will now have only one Partition and Boot Camp assistant sould not object.
    Some have recommended getting rid of the recovery partition while others have advised not to do this. If you have the Lion USB Thumb Drive you do not need a recovery partition so can discard it without concern. There is another way to get rid of the recovery partition if you decide to do it but first be sure to have a backup of your Mac ( I know I sound like a nagging mom but many dead computers have been saved by this simple precaution).
    Use Disk Utility.
    1) Make the Recovery visible in Disk Utility by using a program like Secrets:http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27025/secrets or MacPilot:http://www.koingosw.com/products/macpilot.php (15 day free trial).
    2) Highlite the Recovery partition and Control click it and select Mount the partition.
    3) With the Recovery partition highlited, erase the partition, you'll get an error message, ignore it.
    4) Now highlite the top identity of the hard drive and select the partition tab.
    5) Highlite the Recovery partition and press the minus sign.
    6) Click and hold on the bottom edge of the partition above and drag it to the bottom, if it doesn't go there automatically, the press apply.

  • Factory recovery partition on windows 8 in Asus X551CALaptop

    I purchased Asus x551CA notebook on 22nd Feb 2014. After about 45 days I formated hard disk partition
    on which Activated Windows 8 operating systme was installed.I formatted an repartitioned HDD. 
    And I installed and uninstalled windows8 and windows 8.1 90 days enterprise evaluation edition. Because of 
    these link to factory recovery partition is broken. 
    I have created system image disks which are working to restore system. I forgot how I created these disks. May be 
    I did control panel>recovery>file history>windows 7 file recovery. So these disks should be System Image Backup.
    I think these are not OEM recovery disks. When I insert these disks during reset and refresh I get a message 
    that "Media you inserted is not valid". And I am able to create system image on second partition of hard disk of
    my laptop.I have also got product key of windows 8 by a program jellybean keyfinder.
    To restore from discs created by me. I insert a repair disc then I go to UEFI settings. Then I change boot preferences to 
    boot from DVD. Then I go to Restore form images. Then computer asks me to insert my discs no from 1 to 4. One after the other. Then computer restore to windows 8. It looks alike as it was factory made.
    -When I try to create a recovery drive by going to control panel> Recovery >create a recovery drive 
    Recovery drive dialog box appears but with grayed check box of "copy the recovery partition from PC 
    to the recovery drive". Please tell me how can it come with not grayed dialog box so that I can copy 
    recovery partition to USB pen drive? When notebook was new this check box was not grayed and I was able to 
    copy recovery partition on USB pen drive.
    -Since I cannot copy recovery partition to USB therefore I also cannot reset and refresh windows 8 on 
    the basis of USB. It was working when notebook was new. 
    -And reset or refresh also not working on the basis of hidden recovery partition. How can it will start
    working? It was working when notebook was new.
    -I have tried diskpart command do make hidden recovery partition visible. But it becomes invisible
    after restart. I used following command
    1. Command Prompt Run as administer.
    2. diskpart
    3. list disk
    4. select disk 0
    5. list partition 
    6. select partition 6
    7. assign letter z
    by these commands hidden recovery partition becomes visible and again when I restart laptop it becomes invisible.
    And I am not able to do anything with recovery partition E.G. copy the recovery partition to USB 
    When I created a system image using the following command I became able to refresh my PC. May be it was refreshing 
    on the basis of newly created image.
    recimg /createimage D:\IMAGE81
    recimg /setcurrent D:\IMAGE81
    But it is also not working this time and it gives a message "Drive on which windows is installed is locked unlock it".
    May because I installe AVG antivirus it locked the drive.
    I also used REAgentC command 
    reagentc /setreimage /path F:\Recovery\WindowsRE\ /target C:\Windows /bootkey 4300
    Maybe I executed above command once again I used D: instead of F: 
    And I was able to refresh PC but I was not able to Reset. And I was not able to copy recovery partition on USB 
    by going to control panel> Recovery >create a recovery drive.
    Recovery drive dialog box appears but with grayed check box of "copy the recovery partition from PC 
    to the recovery drive".
    ((I am giving images of computer management in first_image no partition was created it was in factory made state. And 
    in second_Image I created an extra disk partition which is present on disk this time.)) I cannot give images because
    of my account is not varified.
    So I am giving output of diskpart command to understand disk partitions.
    C:\>diskpart
    DISKPART> list disk
    Disk ###    Status        Size      Free     Dyn     Gpt
    Disk 0      Online        465 GB    1024 KB           *
    DISKPART> list volume
    Volume ###  Ltr   Label               Fs       Type           Size    Status          Info
    Volume 0        E                                      DVD-ROM     0 B       No Media
    Volume 1        C     OS                  NTFS   Partition    186 GB   Healthy      Boot
    Volume 2        D     DATA              NTFS   Partition    130 GB   Healthy  
    Volume 3        F     DOWNLOADS  NTFS   Partition    128 GB   Healthy
    Volume 4               SYSTEM          FAT32  Partition   100 MB   Healthy      System
    Volume 5               Recovery        NTFS   Partition    900 MB   Healthy      Hidden
    Volume 6               Restore          NTFS   Partition     20 GB    Healthy      Hidden
    in the beginnig instead of D: (130 GB) and F:(128 GB) there was only one partition D:(258 GB) 130+128 GB.
    Please tell me answers of following quesions:-
    1. Tell me how to regain the link to factory recovery drive.
    2. Please tell me how can I refresh and reset PC on the basis of Hidden Factory Recovery Partition. And how can I copy Hidden Factory Recovery Partition on USB and DVDs. I have 16GB USB pen drive and a DVD writer. So I can use these two storage media
    only and except these I have 500GB HDD on my laptop.
    4. I want to know that Factory recovery partition is useful or not. Should I delete it.
    3. I have DVDs as I said above. On the basis of these I can reinstall windows 8. When I created these discs windows 8 was present on laptop. Currently windows 8.1 is present on laptop. Please tell me how can I create my own hidden recovery partition for
    windows 8. I have upgraded to windows 8.1. So please tell me can I create my own hidden recovey partition for windows 8.1.
    5. Can I download contents of factory recovery partition from internet.
    6. Should I go to shopkeeper. He repairs computers as well. Probably he will manage for me to get Recovery partition discs. In this case these DVDs may be different from my DVDs as I mentioned above. Maybe only thing I get from these discs that I will
    able to reset and refresh computer. 
    7. Microsoft shoult create a program that can re-establish link to factory recovery partition. And this program should be able to create new hidden recovery partition as well. As I have upgraded to windows 8.1. So I think I should have a new hidden recovery partition
    for Windows 8.1. I think I can above thing my other way. If I create new set of DVDs by going to control panel>recovery>   file history>System Image Backup. It will create discs for windows 8.1. And I will able to restore system to windows
    8.1 by these discs. And for windows 8 I have already discs. But these discs will only work by changing boot options(by choosing UEFI) and image recovery. And reset and refresh functions will not work then in such situation factory recovery partition
    will become useless. Then such situation I should delete factory recovery partition as it is useless. 
    8. At beginnign I also tried AI recovery burner. After trying it for 2-3 days I came to know that AI recovery burner is not for windows 8. There should be a tutorial for these thing so that people like me not waste their time. 

    I used a software named UNDELETE on my hidden recovery partition to recover it. I get some files by this software. Important thing is that I got a 2.84 GB file named 00eebc9d.rb in dir D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unknown Application\.rb.
    This file may be useful. Please suggest me how can I use these files to reset and refresh my OS. I used some dir commands as follows to get list of these files:
    dir /s >f:\list.txt
    dir /s /a:s >f:\list2.txt
    Some files were system files so these file were not shown by first dir command. So I used second dir command.
    Output of dir /s >f:\list.txt
     Volume in drive D is DATA
     Volume Serial Number is 9A82-D42B
     Directory of D:\recovered1
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          $Extend
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          Files Detected by their Signatures
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          Recovery
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          System Volume Information
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          $RmMetadata
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          $TxfLog
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  17:36            65,536 $TxfLog.blf
    29-07-2014  17:36        10,485,760 $TxfLogContainer00000000000000000001
    18-04-2014  00:18        10,485,760 $TxfLogContainer00000000000000000002
                   3 File(s)     21,037,056 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          Firefox
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          Internet Explorer
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          Pick an app
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          Unkown Application
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          Windows Photo Viewer
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Firefox
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .xml
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Firefox\.xml
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  18:59             1,091 00000150.xml
    29-07-2014  18:59             1,336 005f05b0.xml
    29-07-2014  18:59             1,091 005f05b8.xml
    29-07-2014  18:59               488 015c7e34.xml
    29-07-2014  18:59               472 015d68fd.xml
    29-07-2014  18:59               472 015d6bc3.xml
                   6 File(s)          4,950 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Internet Explorer
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .gif
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Internet Explorer\.gif
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:01             2,428 003aca99.gif
    29-07-2014  19:01               814 0047c75d.gif
    29-07-2014  19:01               472 00b2846d.gif
                   3 File(s)          3,714 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .cab
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .ico
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app\.cab
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  18:59        17,317,845 000c98e2.cab
    29-07-2014  18:59        92,631,005 0027defd.cab
    29-07-2014  18:59             7,539 00334cf3.cab
    29-07-2014  18:59            15,731 0066bf8e.cab
                   4 File(s)    109,972,120 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app\.ico
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  18:59             4,534 0027d8d6.ico
    29-07-2014  18:59             4,534 0027d8df.ico
    29-07-2014  18:59               766 0027d8eb.ico
    29-07-2014  18:59               766 0027d8ee.ico
    29-07-2014  18:59               766 0027d8f2.ico
    29-07-2014  18:59             4,534 0027dbef.ico
    29-07-2014  18:59            10,134 0027dbfb.ico
                   7 File(s)         26,034 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .ogg
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .rb
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application\.ogg
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  18:59           194,667 00369b71.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59           173,149 0036b2a1.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            13,178 0036b527.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            19,244 0036e009.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59           169,220 0036e18a.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59           114,800 0036f031.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            22,325 0037003d.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            42,628 003703fd.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59           319,493 00370bc2.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            68,812 00373cfa.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            89,541 00373e29.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            65,697 00375384.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            42,955 00376d11.ogg
    29-07-2014  18:59            85,254 0037847f.ogg
                  14 File(s)      1,420,963 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application\.rb
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:05    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:01     3,058,238,593 00eebc9d.rb
                   1 File(s)  3,058,238,593 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          .jpg
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          .png
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer\.jpg
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  18:59            12,296 0027dbce.jpg
    29-07-2014  18:59            41,093 003933da.jpg
    29-07-2014  18:59            25,067 00396fae.jpg
    29-07-2014  18:59             2,303 003c5891.jpg
                   4 File(s)         80,759 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer\.png
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  18:59            64,902 0035b639.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               530 0039c185.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               556 003be59e.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             1,023 003ed468.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             1,704 003f1ec0.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               624 003f252a.png
    29-07-2014  18:59            13,777 0043a2c0.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             2,897 00441e87.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             2,915 00442a6c.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             2,973 00442b91.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               468 004433ca.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               363 00443501.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               238 00443be0.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               331 00443fd9.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               457 004442ad.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             2,868 004444a7.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               268 004446af.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               280 004448d1.png
    29-07-2014  18:59               257 004449f1.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             2,158 00b962d1.png
    29-07-2014  18:59            54,191 016a8a54.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             4,224 017350e3.png
    29-07-2014  18:59             4,241 01735f08.png
                  23 File(s)        162,245 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          Logs
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          WindowsRE
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\Logs
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\WindowsRE
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\System Volume Information
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
         Total Files Listed:
                  65 File(s)  3,190,946,434 bytes
                  65 Dir(s)  178,172,325,888 bytes free
    dir /s /a:s >f:\list2.txt
     Volume in drive D is DATA
     Volume Serial Number is 9A82-D42B
     Directory of D:\recovered1
    17-04-2014  23:37             2,560 $AttrDef
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    01-05-2014  09:24                 0 $UsnJrnl
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     Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog
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