Lion Recovery Disk erased mounted volume

Has anyone had this problem: I created a Lion Recovery Disk and it erased mounted volume? Can the data be recovered?

That was my backup. I'm transfering all my files from my laptop to the iMac and other devices. It also is loaded with older photos that I don't keep on any other devise. my bad. I am begining to read the files for recovery using 'DISK DRILL" working beautifuly. no recovery yet but prospects are good!

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1) take an external drive. (USB is really slow, but can be used in a pinch. Firewire interface is much faster, and worth the price difference. It should be a 3.5" drive, and have its own power supply.)
2) Install Mac OS X on the External drive.
3) Boot from the External drive. Now you have the full capabilities of Mac OS X to act on everything else in your Mac.
The Hatter often proposes that:
... rather than using a Utilities/Installer DVD or Recovery_HD to Install Mac OS X on an External drive from scratch, you can do just as good a job (and get a "free" bootable backup in the process) by:
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Since I planned to upgrade the stock disk on my macbook pro I created a USB stick backup of the Lion OS using Lion recovery disk assistant. It built a bootable copy of my Lion OS. I replaced the drive, booted from the USB stick Lion, formatted the new drive with disk utility with one OSX partition, and bunch of Linux partitions for the planned dual/triple/etc. boot. I then used the recovery disk menu to reinstall OSX on the new disk. It took off and started the download just like while booting with R key or from the recovery partition AGAIN!. This is a 2 hour proposition and is totally ridiculous. I need to be able to reinstall without downloading Lion every time. Any ideas on how to stop this new Apple invention from doing this download?

If you read the Disk Recovery Assistant documentation all that it does is put a copy of the Recovery HD onto the flash drive. There is no OS on it to reinstall, hence the reason for the Internet download.
If you wish to have a true bootable installer flash drive for your system, then here's what is involved. Start by going to this link: Downloading Hardware Specific Lion Installers. Follow the instructions very, very carefully because this can be a bit tricky.
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Make Your Own Lion Installer
1. After downloading Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Lion application. After Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Lion installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing Lion.
2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
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4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility.
Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Drag the InstallESD.dmg disc image file into the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable Lion installer that you can use without having to re-download Lion.

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Is there a way to get a Montain Lion recovery disk?
Would reloading Mountain Lion erase any new data since I installed it?
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You have a built-in Recovery Partition (hidden):
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Reinstalling doesn't overwrite any files in your User's home folder, including applications. Some applications that put files into system file areas may have to be reinstalled.
You can choose exactly what to restore from Time Machine. The problem, of course, is knowing what to restore.
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/264620-restore-specific-f iles-time-machine-backup.html
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Tried to run Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, and now cannot access my external USB disk...

Greetings all,
I run the app after downloading it from Apple but it failed with a message that it could not use that drive. From then on, the drive is inaccesible. Disk Utility cannot repair it, it reports "incompatible filesystem". If someone has an idea on this I would be grateful as I have rather important personal and family info on this drive... It is a Lacie external USB drive of 1TB.

When did the file assistant fail saying it couldn't use the drive? If it's suddenly inaccessible, I can only assume it started the erase process before it failed?
So you know for future reference, review this link.
Excerpt from the above link:
System requirements
A Mac running OS X Lion with an existing Recovery HD
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I have already installed lion and the installation was deleted. I can use this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433 Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
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If you need to reinstall from scratch:
Install or Reinstall Lion from Scratch
If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.

Disk Utility Mount Volume

Trying to mount a particular volume (john) in disk utility using Applescript. Just got the script to open disk utility. What language is necessary to mount this particular volume?
thanks

This is a slightly messy situation, particularly as code seems to work differently with 10.4.6 and 10.4.11
Long story short: I've been using the do shell script command for this on 10.4.6 for some time, with an issue related only to diskutil unmount (not mount) -- see discussion of this below.
I only recently upgraded to 10.4.11 and SEEM to be seeing different behavior, but I don't have time to explore that right now.
In any case:
1) Niel is correct in that disk utility isn't scriptable beyond basic commands
2) Using the shell (or do shell script), I've been using the disk identifier, rather than the disk name. You can find the disk identifier by highlighting the disk of interest in disk utility and then selecting "Get Info". The disk identifier will be in the form (example) 1s3.
[3) BTW, you don't need a tell block for do shell script. Dispense with the "tell app "Finder"/end tell"]
4) Try this:
do shell script "diskutil (un)mount disk1S3" -- using, of course, the correct identifier, and it doesn't matter that the disk is an external one. And, of course, delete "(un)" if you are mounting the drive.
5) This will probably work for you, but I'm finding at the moment that identifying the drive by name rather than disk identifier is NOT working consistently in 10.4.11.
6) You will probably find that the "mount" command is fast but that the unmount command has a delay of some 20 seconds +/-. This happens also with 10.4.6, and there is no apparent workaround with "do shell script." HOWEVER, if you use terminal more directly, via AppleScript," that unmount delay disappears -- at least in 10.4.6. My quick tries in 10.4.11 seem to reveal a new issue (later).
To take the more direct approach, try code like this:
tell app "Terminal"
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The downside of this is that a Terminal window opens (however briefly). In 10.4.6, the "quit saving no" line promptly got rid of the window after the drive had unmounted but, in 10.4.11, the Terminal app seems reluctant to quit. I need to investigate this more.
OKAY, now you're left with the problem of using the disk identifier, which changes on every re-boot of the computer. The scripts I wrote in the past actually get the disk identifier associated with each drive name -- but these are long scripts with some pretty messy code, and you probably don't want to get into that sort of thing. On the other hand, it seems to me that I've successfully used the /Volumes/(drive name) approach in 10.4.6, so this may be another instance of 10.4.11 acting differently.
If you want, try some of the suggestions above and post your findings -- I think I'll be looking at this more with respect to the apparent 10.4.11 issues.

This might help a few... Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

Apple has released a booting and recovery tool for Lion that can be put on a flash drive.
Here is more information...
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433

It may be useful for those which didn't took care to stop the Install process to keep a backup of the Lion Installer.
There is a recovery HD partition on the HD but what if the HD die ?
The partition would be helpless.
The USB built with the delivered app would solve the problem.
Of course, if you took care to backup the Installer, you would be able to run it which will spare you a lot of downloading.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 9 août 2011 19:23:31
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