A Mac running OS X Lion with an existing Recovery HD
Following this link http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848 in a previous post of mine, this statement was one of the requirements "A Mac running OS X Lion with an existing Recovery HD"
What Recovery HD is this reffering to ?, is it simply an External Hard drive used for Time Machine backup's ?
thanks, be gentle with me ta. LOL.
tim
great stuff, i did that buddy. thanks
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 647.5 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 7 101.8 GB disk0s4
tim
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