I want to install maverick but it say no recovery

i want to install maverick on my mac but it says that it cannot create data recovery what do i need to do , please help me

Thanks for trying. That article is no help. I have found this same problem posted here and elsewhere. Mostly with Bootcamp, sometimes without. My 2010 15" MBP has 10.8.5, has a 650 MB Recovery Partition, and BOOTCAMP (windows 7, NTSF). I get the same error every time. My other Mac worked fine. Its Mavericks Recovery Partition is also 650 MB.
Things I tried that did not work:
Decreasing the size of the main partition.
Running Disk Utility on the drive and the partitions.
Installing from a different Mac via Target Disk Mode.
Deleting the current Recovery Partition.
Growing the main partition to take up the free space after deleting the Recovery Partition.
I am in the process of using WINCLONE to backup my Bootcamp. Then I will delete the bootcamp partition and try again. It has worked for at least one other person in Apple's forums.

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