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...

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How do I install just the Lion installer via the lion recovery partition.

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

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.

Is it possible to run custom programs using the Lion recovery partition ?

I understand that it is now possible to get the Recovery Partition onto a USB drive such as a Flash Drive.
What I want to do is create/copy some tools, and dump them on the recovery flash drive, boot up and execute them.
This will also be helpful for some 3rd party firmware updates, such as SSD drives, as we cannot update the firmware on a SSD if we boot from it,
and are forced to try to create Linux/Windows boot drives to install such updates (eg OCZ Vertex 2 SSD).
I figure I could try to cheat, and replace one of the Apple Tools with another program and hope it works, but I would rather not do this.
Ideally, would just like to be able to run a Terminal Shell, and run whatever commands I want.
Cheers

You can have more than one partition on your flash drive. Use one for the Apple Recovery Disk Assistant (which will be hidden after it is installed). Use the other(s) for whatever you need as required.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848
Regards,
Colin R.

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

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
When FileVault 2 is enabled, Recovery HD does not appear in the Startup Manager (which is accessed by holding Option during startup). However, you can select the Recovery HD by holding Command-R as Lion starts up.

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.

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.

How do I install a Lion Recovery Partition

I recently installed a new Hard Drive in my Early 2011 Macbook Pro, and I was wondering if there was any way I could out the Lion Recovery Partion on it.
Thanks In Advance

CCC Carbon Copy Cloner has a utility called "Disk Center" that is included with CCC that will create a Recovery Partition for you. I understand that CCC is not free, but it does have a free 30 day trial.
The "Disk Center" in CCC Carbon Copy Cloner is not obvious or easy to find, unless you know where to look for it (in the Window menu pulldown)... it's easy to miss. Once you find it in the CCC menu system, it is a quick (<5min) turnkey way to create a Recovery HD Partition on any disk, internal or external.
I thought I should share this, since I burned several hours of pain-staking research and experimentation in search of how to create/re-create a "Recovery HD" Partition for my MacBook Retina Mavericks laptop. My journey was varietal, including:
Successfully using a manual set of instructions with Terminal to execute a multi-step approach that worked ( http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install -drive.html )
As well as a utility from musings.slivertooth.us that worked for me as advertised. Only problem is that while I appreciate and respect the great utility that guy created, my risk-averse nature prevents me from using a non-commercial utility to muck with the low-level details of my boot drive. Great job, but I prefer CCC since it's backed by a commercial SW company. Here's his great uility, as referenced in Apple discussion threads like this one: ( http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lio n/ )
Therefore, I was relieved to discover that CCC has a utility specifically designed to do this for me.
FYI: How did I find myself in this position? I lost my Recovery HD partition because I used Super Duper to Clone my HD/SSD, and subsequently restored my MacBook at one point. Super Duper has worked awesomely well for me for several years. It clones HDs/SSDs without a glitch, and makes them bootable automatically. The only gap or lack of function I have discovered is that "Super Duper" does not Clone the "Recovery HD" Partition. CCC Carbon Copy Cloner does. So, while I like Super Duper, I'm switching to CCC Carbon Copy Cloner for my backups from now on.
Disclaimer: I don't work for CCC. I'm just an I/T Professional that needed to figure out how to create/re-create a Recovery HD Partition...

How do I setup the HP recovery partition on my HP Pavilion DV7-1232nr

How do I setup the HP recovery partition on a drive that has been erased of it’s HP tools recovery partition like in the recovery patition size needed on the harddrive and how it should be setup like in should it be set as Active,Logical,Primery,etc etc etc
I get the following errow when trying to restore from my recovery disks I made with HP phone support
Error ---> this pc is not supported by the system recovery disks. you will not be able to continue to recover this system this these disks.
go figure ) > :
system
HP Pavilion DV7-1232nr
HD 320 gig
Ram 4 gig with 3.75 gigs still free
CPU AMD Turion X2 doul core mobile RM-74 2.20 GHZ
HP Windows 7 Home 64 bit Full install
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The Recovery partition is recreated when doing a successfull reinstall from the Recovery Disks.
Enter BIOS by tapping away at the F10 key immediately after powering on. Is all system info complete there?
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Restoring from Lion Time Machine backup and keeping Lion recovery partition

I am installing a new hard drive in my MacBook Pro. I have a Time Machine backup of everything, but I'm aware that just restoring the Time Machine backup to the new drive will not restore the Lion recovery drive/partition. What is the best way to move my data to the new drive? Am I best doing a clean install and moving everything over by hand from the Time Machine backup?

I've just done this. I booted from a Lion Recovery USB stick then restored from a Time Capsule. I had no RecoveryHD partition after it.
However, if you download and run the Lion installer once you log in to your desktop it will re-create the RecoveryHD partition. Long way round though.
Best solution is to make a bootable USB (8GB) or DVD from the Lion installer App. Then do a new install of Lion to get the Recovery HD partition created. Once installed you can restart and boot up using the newly created Recovery HD and restore your entire computer from the Time Capsule. Hey presto, your computer should be back to the way it was.

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.

How to recover using lion recovery disk assistant IN MAC MINI

how to recover using lion recovery disk assistant IF MY KEYBOARD AND MOUSE DOEST NOT WORK DURING BOOTING ?

Hello:
If my memory serves me correctly, the licence agreement that comes with a new system indicates that is good for one system....
Also, I do not think that something that would boot one type of processor would work on a different type.
Barry

When starting up my iMac with Option Key held down, my recovery partition shows 10.9 instead of 10.10. How do I install the correct recovery partition?

iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)
Yosemite 10.10.1
When I start up my iMac with option key held down, the recovery partition is shown as 10.9 instead of 10.10 which is the installed version.
How do I install the proper recovery partition?

Thanks very much for the quick reply. I figured it would something that simple. Like I said, I only know enough to cause trouble. LOL
Thanks again, Guess I need to find a new game to play. LOL

Why is the Lion Recovery updating downloading slowly by my ethernet but fast on my wifi?

Came home tonight and immediately started updating the house macs.
First, my imac. I decided to limit the download first to the Lion Recovery Update. It is 452MB.
My imac connected by ethernet is reporting anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. Going real slow.
I boot up the macbook sitting in the same chair, connected by wifi, and it downloaded and installed the same update in about 4 minutes.
I tried stopping the imac, rebooting, making sure everything else was closed...even tried turning on the wifi...is saying 45 minutes.
I don't get it...any tips?
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Never figured this out but it finally downloaded. Closing out.

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