Mac OS X Lion Recovery partition lost

For whatever reason, the recovery partition on my mac is not showing up. Find My Mac requires a recovery partition to run.
I was wondering if there is a way I can create/recreate a recovery partition in lion.
Thanks,
Matt

i forgot to mention that i use Filevault 2

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I am trying to bootcamp windows 7 on my new macbook pro (early 2011), the installation was successfull but i am missing drivers on the windows side and cannot access the internet until i install them. I installed all the bootcamp updates and put them on a usb to transfer to windows partition but windows kept telling me i need an earlier version of bootcamp which is not available from the update support downloads section of the apple website.
After some research i realized i needed the mac boot disc for lion, which doesnt exist so i need to create my own. I was told i could install lion from the lion recovery partition.
here is my question....If i install lion onto my mac partition that currently has lion, can i stop the download after the initial 4 gb installer and not go through with the full re-installation of lion? so that i can then take the installesd.dmg (i think thats right) file and put it on a dvd to install from the windows partition and finally get the drivers i need to get it running.
Comment: based on what i have read on how you used to bootcamp a mac, apple has made it very difficult, unneccesarily difficult it seems.

Before you do anything else, I suggest a thorough read of this:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

Lion Recovery partition on 2011 MacBook Airs

I did a post for my blog yesterday concerning the use of the Lion recovery partition in solving the problem of turning on Find My Mac. I've had a very positive response from readers, most reporting success. But one has raised a question I cannot answer.
Here is the original article
http://www.macfilos.com/home/2011/10/16/icloud-cannot-turn-on-find-my-mac-recove ry-system-update-req.html
My reader maintains that the Lion recovery partition is not active on her 2011 MacBook Air. She has the latest OS X build and has also installed the Lion Recovery update. I can't really believe this, but I only have a 2010 Air to play with. Can someone confirm or deny?
The problem I (and many others) had was that the recovery update was not being recognised, the reason being a corrupt volume. After repairing the volume using the recovery partition it was then possible to reinstall the recovery update and subsequently turn on Find My Mac. It could be that my reader has a more intransigent version with the same cause that needs additional work.
Michael

If she enters in Terminal
diskutil list
if there is a Recovery Partition, she'll see:
Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
as the last partition.
See also: https://discussions.apple.com/message/16417843#16417843
Tony

How to delete lion recovery partition

i have mac book air 13inch with 128g hdd
when i install lion, it creats lion recovery partition on my HDD
and it does not clear out and stays all the time
i want to delete the lion recovery partition and make my HDD united to only one partition
how can i do this?
it there any way to do this?
help me~~~

You could, but not recommended. The recovery partition is
there so that you can repair or re-install Lion if necessary.
I don't recall, but I think some people have had issues with
some Mac models booting Lion if a Recovery HD is not
present. Not sure if the Air is one.
First, to be safe, you should probably make a USB stick
installer or DVD for Lion should things go south on you and
have to reinstall from scratch.
Next,the simplest approach would be to clone your Lion
install to an external, bootable hard drive using either
Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper. When that is
complete boot to that volume then reformat the internal
volume, then clone the external volume back.
Don't interrupt any of the processes or you could
end up with a MacBrick.

Will reinstalling Lion via the Lion recovery partition cause you to loose all of your applications, documents, etc or does it just replace the Lion operating system and leave everything else untouched?

Will reinstalling Lion via the Lion recovery partition cause you to loose all of your applications, documents, etc or does it just replace the Lion operating system and leave everything else untouched?

The latter. I cant tell you how many times I've reinstalled lion! all your apps will be fine!
Things that will change are system graphics if you altered them with something like candybar or did it manually.
Having said that, you should always backup your stuff with time machine incase something does happen.
This is a very important step which will insure the safety of your files while doing things like updating or installing the OS.
Please exercise caution when doing things with a Hard Drive.

How to rename a hidden Lion recovery partition?

I want to put a Lion recovery partition for each post Snow Leopard computer I'm supporting, but can't find a way to rename them, so that I don't have a bunch of identically named partitions to choose from. Any ideas?

First enable Disk Utility's Debug menu by entering this in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool YES
Then relaunch Disk Utility. Under the Debug menu, select "Show Every Partition". The Recovery HD will appear in the sidebar. Click it once, and then click "Mount" in the toolbar. The Recovery HD will then mount on the Desktop, where you can rename it like any other Finder item.

Recovery partition lost

my laptop, Satellite P855-S5102, came with win8 pre-installed. i upgraded to win 8.1 and now i get prompt that SYSMENU.DLL is not working. i tried system recovery. now i get this message: i need to repair my laptop because WINLOAD.EFI is missing. i tried system recovery from usb flash drive. now i get this message: recovery partition lost.
i check the HDD in explorer. now it has two additional partition. one named local disk and another named recovery.
will removing all partition help? i'm planning to reformat the whole HDD. is it advisable?
also, how can i enter the bios easily? i'm having difficulty accessing the bios to setr it up back so HDD will be first to start.
Thank you to anybody who could help me
i'm new to this forum. my name is bunglerph

Satellite P855-S5102
i'm planning to reformat the whole HDD. is it advisable?
Sure.
If you failed to create recovery media, you can obtain it from Toshiba. Scroll down to Get Recovery Media here .
For instructions, see the section Restoring from recovery media, which begins on p. 60 of the User's Guide.
Satellite/Satellite Pro P800 Series User’s Guide
After all that, you'll need to upgrade to Windows 8.1 again.
-Jerry

File Vault 2 and Lion Recovery Partition

Has anyone noticed that the Lion recovery partition disapears after enabling File Vault 2? I don't have one anymore. It's Gone!

Check out the OS X Lion: About FileVault2 kb.
Starting from the Recovery HD partition after FileVault 2 is enabled
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sijyb00 wrote:
See, the the thing is, I DID make the recovery cd... but it isn't working. From my understanding, the cd uses the information from the recovery partition to restore Windows? Correct me if I'm wrong. Every time I boot up the cd it detects no OS and when I click continue, it begins the installation and immediately says Installation cancelled, missing files, something like C:\win.int is missing.
So the recovery cd is not working. I called Toshiba and from what I could understand from the horrible english, was that they would charge me for another recovery cd... which I don't need, because I have one. Or send in my laptop for "repair." They said it was my hard drive. Which is complete bull**bleep**, when windows failed I ran a linux os on it perfectly fine, so it is not my hard drive.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this? I have a product key for vista which I PAID for when I bought the laptop... I don't think it's fair to have to buy it over again for $100-200
No, the recovery disks don't rely on anything on the hard drive. From what you say, either you are not booting from the optical drive, or the disks indeed are faulty.
The last I knew, replacement disks were $25. See the sticky at the top of the General Discussion topic for details.
There have been a lot of reports of problems with recovery disks, so I'm a bit surprised that Toshiba won't ship you replacements at no charge. Might be worth another try, and an attempt to get to the next tech level.

Removed Lion Recovery Partition!

I have removed the Lion Recovery partition and shat should I do now to get that back again?

Download Carbon Copy Cloner and WinClone 3
Get two blank external drives, make sure they are formatted GUID and OS X extended journaled in Disk Utility (actually check Winclone for their external drive format requirments for Windows)
Use CCC to clone the OS X partition to one external drive.
Use Winclone to clone the Windows Boot Camp partition to the other external drive.
Disconnect all drives.
Now the problem is how to get Recovery HD back onto the machine.
If you upgraded 10.6 to 10.7/10.8, then hold option/alt and boot off the 10.6 disk, use it to erase the entire internal drive of everything, then install 10.6, upgrade to 10.6.8 and reinstall 10.7/10.8 from AppSore by option click on Purchases or whatever it uses, that will put the Recovery HD back on the machine.
If your machine came with 10.7 or 10.8, then hold the command option and r keys down and boot the machine on a fast Internet connection (Ethernet the router preferred) and this will load Internet Recovery from Apple's servers. Use Disk Utility there to erase the entire drive of everything and quit, then reinstall OS X from Apple's servers, it will recreate the Recovery HD partition that way, as it's assuming it's a new drive it's installing on.
When you have your machine in order, go to BootCamp and set up your partition again, then quit.
Hold the option/alt key down and boot off the OS X "CCC" clone you made, now use CCC to reverse clone OS X back onto the internal drive.
Connect the Winclone drive, run Winclone and clone that back onto your BootCamp partition.
When done, reboot and disconnect all drives, head to System Preferences > Startup Disk and set it to either OS X or BootCamp as the default boot. As you know if you change your mind to hold option key at boot to go to the other instead.

I never got a Mac OS X Lion Recovery USB Drive with my mbp

i was reading online how to make a backup dvd for Lion and it ref that if you bought a new mpb with lion on it it came with a
Mac OS X Lion Recovery USB Drive
i went back and looked in the box ,and nothing
my son just bought a 15 " mbp with moutin lion and there was no usb drive either
how do i get this usb stick
or did apple stop including it
fred

You do not need it It was a buy product for those unable to use the download from the web at a charge of $69
see
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

Recover the lion recovery partition?

Hi all,
After removing bootcamp partition my lion recovery partition is missing. Is there any way to recover the recovery partition?
Thanks..

You might get a better answer if you post in the OS X Lion forum...

USB disk with Lion recovery partition + storage partition shared by Mac & Windows: Windows can't read it.

I have a Lexar Express Card flash drive (16GB). It works the same as any USB flash drive.
I use it to move files between Mac OS and Windows 7/Bootcamp: Drag files to it in one OS, reboot in the other OS, take the files back off.
Recently, I discovered the Lion Recvoery Disk Assistant, which allows you to create a Lion Recovery Disk on an external drive (just in case). So, I decided I would use a ~1GB partition on the express card for the recovery disk, and leave a ~15GB partition for the same file sharing I am used to.
This setup requires that the disk use a GUID Partition Map with a HFS+ file system for the recovery partition, and I use a FAT32 file system for the shared partition. The partitioning was done in Mac OS Disk Utility, and then I think the Recovery Disk Assistant modifies it further by adding an EFI partition.
When I try to access the disk in Windows 7, it says it needs to format the drive first (which it shows to be a ~200MB "volume" on a disk with ~15.4GB "capacity"). From what I have been able to find on my own, Windows 7 should be fine with a disk using a GUID Partition Map, and both OSs can use a FAT32 file system. So why does Windows only see the 200MB EFI partition at the first section of the disk, and not the other partitions, particularly the FAT32 file sharing partition?
The last thing I will mention is that the disk is being seen by Windows as a MBR/Master Boot Record partitioned device. I'm assuming this is the GPT/GUID Partition Table's protective partition's fault; the one MBR partition that keeps the GPT partitioning safe from software that doesn't recognize or know about GPT.
I'm asking on the Apple discussions because it's in Boot Camp and I'm primarily a Mac user. If anyone knows a better, Windows-focused place to ask, please say so!

You really need to search first as there are A LOT of post's with the same question. Different issues with different Models.
What model/year do you have and what OS were you using first? Snow Leopard (10.6) is the last one that came with a CD/DVD with the computer.
You insert the disk when it's done installing W7 and reboots into Windows then you insert the 10.6 MacOS Installer disk for the Windows drivers. Lion does it a different way.
PR7 wrote:
...........because I lost the OS X Lion install disk that came with my Mac)..........
Lion (10.7) is only a download now, there are no more physical disk's, (unless you pay the extra money for the USB installer thumb drive directly from Apple). So if your computer came with 10.7 Lion installed then you will not have a physical disk. There should be a "Repair Partition" that you use to boot to if you need to repair or to reinstall the Lion OS.
PR7 wrote:
However, when I log on my Windows account and I insert the bootable OS X Lion install disk, Windows doesn't read it. I can't even find the disk in Windows Explorer or even Right Click on the disk.
Please Help!
Thank You!!!
I don't believe the Boot Camps drivers are in the Lion download anymore, ( to keep the download smaller?), the only way you get them now is when you start BCAssistant, it will prompt you to download them onto a CD, or USB drive. You have to download and install the Boot Camp drivers separately. You then insert it when it's done, when Windows boots.

Need to create Lion recovery partition to enable Find My Mac

I have a MacBook Pro running Lion but I have no recovery partition so I cannot use the Find My Mac feature in iCloud. Is there way to reinstall to get a recovery partition without having to wipe the machine?

I'm glad you're buying it because you'd be running into problems down the road most likely because: the Lion license from MAS is NOT transferable - that means your seller should have wiped Lion and reinstalled the original system and give you the install disks (that is what the SLA spells out). Did s/he do that (give you the original disks)? If not, you may want to inquire about them - you may need them at some point for troubleshooting/running a hardware test/etc.
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.

ICloud (Find My Mac) won't recognize my Lion Recovery Partition.

When I open the iCloud prefs, Find My Mac is greyed out and says "Recovery partition required." My recovery partion is bootable and working.
This happened after I resized my partitions using GParted. As mentioned, I tested the Recovery Partition right after resizing them, and it still works.
Here is the output of 'diskutil list /dev/disk0':
/dev/disk0
   #:                  TYPE NAME            SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0: GUID_partition_scheme                *320.1 GB   disk0
   1:                   EFI                 209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:             Apple_HFS Macintosh HD    213.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:             Apple_HFS Recovery HD     649.1 MB   disk0s3
   4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP        75.5 GB    disk0s4
   5: Microsoft Basic Data                 21.0 GB    disk0s5
   6:            Linux Swap                 8.7 GB     disk0s6
Partition 5 is ext3 formatted for Linux.

I tried using the RecoveryHDUpdate from Apple, but no dice. When selecting an install disk, it gave this error with a yellow triangle icon:
Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating JavaScript for the package.
Selecting the Recovery HD itself yielded a different yellow triangle error:
Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. This update requires Mac OS X version 10.7.

Mac OS X Lion Recovery partition lost

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