Install maverick fresh, will it create a recovery partition?

Basic info.
I have a i5 MBP that came originally with 10.6.x.
Presnt Recovery Partition is 10.6.x.
the internal HD is partitioned in to 3 partitions, one of them is the Mac OS the other two different things. Not to have the 3 partitions is not an option for internal reasons.
I have real problems with the OS and after trying lots of fixes decided it is time to install new.
I want to install Maverick (from a USB stick I made) fresh rather than install over the present 10.8.x.
If I look at the partitions I see the following (debug is on to show invisibles)
Now, if I erase the OS A disk as well as the invisible Recovery HD, expand the partition so OS A now includes the Recovery HD and install Maverick on the empty partiton. The question is, will it install a Maverick Recovery HD partition?
Reason is that I would like to have a Maverick Recovery Partition is, I assume for the obvious reasons, of being up to date.
Any wisdom, tips etc appreciated.

ChangeAgent wrote:
so you saying erasing OS A will automatically erase the recovery partition? I did not know this.
BTW, do you know if the resulting fresh install is Universal? What I mean is if I could copy this to an external HD (I would use ChronoSync to do this, it makes bootable backups) and use it for other fresh install by copying it back? woudl it run on any Mac (fit to run Maverick of course)?
Yes to your 1st question as long as you are OUTSIDE of the drive you're erasing. If you're IN the drive's Recovery HD using Disk Utility, you're ONLY erasing OS A (in your example) and NOT its Recovery HD also.
Yes to your 2nd question. What I use is Disk Utility from the Recovery HD and do a Restore. This will clone both the OS A AND the Recovery HD to an external drive using OS A as the Source and ExternalDrive as the Destination. Now, if I ever want to Restore from that external drive to the internal without reinstalling, I just boot into the external's Recovery HD and do the Disk Utility Restore (ExternalDrive as Source and OS A as Destination). If your ChronoSync will clone both, then you're good to go.

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Perhaps one of the discs is not labeled correctly. Try going through all of them to see if one of them works.
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HT201316 This is ridiculous - I am using bootcamp and after waiting over 2 hrs to download this OS, and attempt to install, I get an error message - no recovery partition. So much for user-friendly MAC.

I am now advised by the links to ' wipe my bootcamp partition, and reinstall SnowLeopard (you are kidding..) AND
re down load Mountain Lion (2 hr + again - are you joking? ) THEN recreate my bootcamp partition (im using win XP on this).
Wow thanks Apple ! That sounds like a great way to spend my next weekend.

Did the installer get deleted? If it fails to install, I didn't think it would get deleted. Check the Applications folder.
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in this document: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
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Thinking about it: hopefully you'll be able to buy/install it because MAS will most likely recognize that you have it installed already (and it was done with a different Apple ID). If it does not work, you will need to original disks to wipe the drive, reinstall the original OS and then buy Lion.

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