Recovery HD fileVault

I want to use FileVault, when trying it says that I need a Recovery HD on my disk.
Is there a way to get one without a new Installation.
Thanks Torsten

No. You need to reinstall the OS to restore the Recovery HD.

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Recovery from FileVault backup disk

I have a friend who had Filevault active and suspected it was causing problems so he disabled it following the instructions to the letter. After working for over an hour, it said it was done and when he restarted it would not boot. He took it to the local Apple store for "recovery" but it appears that all that was done was to erase the drive and reinstall the OS. He has a Lacie drive that he kept a backup on but it appears not to have a user folder for his account. Is it encrypted and therefore invisible? If so, what can be done to recover the data?
G5 2.0 DP, MacBook Pro 17 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Boot from the LaCie, assuming that his backup is bootable. that should allow the user's folder to decrypt. Once that's finished, then drag & drop the user's folder onto the Mac Book's User folder. Finally, do a search for file vault or filevault, review the postings, and decide whether or not to ever reenable it.

Os x disappeared on server

ee below I ran a macmini as a server with Lion 10.7.5. The hard disk is RAID with NAS TM backup and cloned daily to an external hard drive. In the last few days the macmini started booting from a cloned backup drive instead of from the Server. I get the following error message on startup:
"Mac OSX can't repair the disk - you can open or copy files but you can't save. Back up and repair disk asap"
But I can save files to the Server. I have two pressing deadlines so I can't do the obvious re-format at the moment (and when I do I'll create a separate partition and maybe one for the mail server as well). But I am worried the drive is unstable and I might lose work. I have backed everything up - including the backup drive (just in case).
I am looking for an interim solution to get me through the next few days.
I wondered about installing the OS again. I have a recovery stick and "Install Lion" is also in the downloads folder (though not the Applications folder). I have had different messages depending on when I did things but the latest is that I need to install Server app first (which seemed very odd). I opened Server (which I have had running for three years) and got what looks like a setup question about where I want Server to be. My memory is a bit fuzzy but I think the other message was about losing functionality if I installed it (Recovery and FileVault) on a RAID.
I downloaded Mavericks - which went to the Application folder on my backup drive. It gave me the functionality loss message when I tried to install it on the Server HD. I am thinking of doing this anyway as a short term solution but I wonder what the potential problems might be.
Other information:
Disconnecting the external hard drive and trying to boot the Server HD results in no boot: apple sign cycles very quickly to a cross and a Question mark. Single User mode boot stops with an error message (something like) "Could not load Mac Kernel".
Disk Utility shows no problems with the top level drives (SMART status is also verified) but won't repair or even verify the Server HD - nothing happens and there is no SMART line (RAID status shows "Online")
I have very little knowledge of Terminal and don't know how to use it to check the server hard drive - sbin and fsck go to the back up drive (and tell me it is fine) i tried /dev/disk1 but got "Permission denied".

I understand, sadly Apple set the rules & the prices.
You will need to read the requirements for running Server.app, the old version was for 10.8, the newest is for 10.9. if you hope to configure on 10.9 you'll need to pay again.

Time machine restore breaks file vault

Running Lion GM for the last few weeks on 2011 MBP w/500 GB drive. Decided to upgrade my drive to 750 GB and used TimeMachine to restore.
Had to boot SL (since Lion update isn't bootable by default and the dmg isn't on my local laptop) to launch the full TM restore.
TM had no problem restoring and everything worked fine until I tried to encrypt using File Vault. This was working on my 500GB drive.
When I try to enable, I get the following error:
FileVault can’t be turned on for the disk “Macintosh HD”.
Some disk formats don’t support the recovery partition required by encryption. To use encryption, reinstall this version of Mac OS X on a reformatted disk.
The format I used when I created the disk was Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
After realizing I couldn't encrypt, I tried the command-R to boot the recovery partition and its gone.
So how do we do a TM restore for Lion to a clean disk?

This is how I fixed it on a Macbook Air 2011 (MBA). I couldn't use the MickeyPhelps procedure here, because for the the MBA there is no way to create an installer image.
The procedure assumes you have a WiFi or Ethernet connection to the internet.
1. Restore your Time Machine backup. This will invalidate recovery HD, FileVault is gone and cannot be enabled (see original post).
2. Boot to recovery mode using CMD-R. The MBA will load the recovery partition data from the network.
3. Use the Disk Utility to create an image backup of the system partition (Macintosh HD) on an external drive
4. Boot using Option-CMD-P-R to reset PRAM. Not sure if this is always required, but for me it was. Otherwise I got an error that OSX could not be installed because recovery HD could not be created by the installer.
5. Boot to recovery mode using CMD-R. The MBA will load the recovery partition data from the network.
6. Using Disk Utility, first delete the "Macintosh HD" partition, then re-create it. Not sure if this is really necessary, but I did it this way.
7. Re-Install Mac OSX Lion. (takes a couple of hours depending on your network)
8. Omit the OSX configuration and boot using CMD-R. Should be fast because recovery HD has already been recreated.
9. Use the Disk Utility to restore the subsequently created image backup to the system partition (Macintosh HD) from the external drive.
10. Boot. That's it. You can now turn on FileVault.

HT4718 FileVault 2, the Recovery System, and the use of Disk Utility

I have FileVault 2 turned on for my Lion-equipped Powerbook Pro. When booting from the Recovery System, however, the Disk Utility thereon cannot even verify the internal HD, much less repair anything. I am aware that this is due to the encryption, of course.
However, for external encrypted drives, all I need to do is enter the password to mount them. So is there something that one can do in order to get the Disk Utility on the Recovery System -- on this very same drive -- to recognize the main volume, in order to enable it to perform diagnostics?
Secondarily, if I put the Powerbook Pro into target mode, and connect it to another Mac (which I have not tried yet) will I be able to mount it from the other computer if (A) It is running Lion OSX or higher, and (B) I can provide one or more of the login passwords?
I am one who has always liked to keep my hard drives running smoothly (e.g using Disk Warrior, Drive Genius, Disk Utility...whatever). So this is a bit foreign to me to be unable to run at least basic diagnostics. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

If you're talking about just the Recovery HD, you only need 1GB so use a 4GB USB thumb drive and the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant to create it.
If you're talking about the ML installer (installESD.dmg) use an 8GB USB thumb drive.

Whats should i do if i forgot my login password and lost recovery key for filevault?

I have mountain lion and i forgot my login password, it has filevault, and i lost my recovery key to decrypt the hard drive
I called applecare and they asked me about my serial number but they said it doesnt appear in the apple care
but!!! i bought my mac at august endings.
Please!! i need a soon answer
i dont care my files, i dont have important files at all, i just want to login and be able to use it!!!!

Tayel wrote:
I called applecare and they asked me about my serial number but they said it doesnt appear in the apple care
but!!! i bought my mac at august endings.
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Filevault encryption: no security questions, no recovery code; how to revert?

Running the latest Yosemite (10.10.2) on an iMac (upgraded from Mavericks) ...
I decided I wanted to encrypt the boot drive on our iMac, so I clicked to turn on Filevault. Here's what happened:
I was NOT offered a recovery key. (As this point, I didn't know when the key is normally offered.)
I DID get a window that asked if I wanted Apple to save my key, and I clicked on the radio button to do so. Then I clicked on CONTINUE.
I did NOT get any security questions to answer, just a RESTART button. I thought, maybe the security questions come after the restart.
I clicked on RESTART and the iMac restarted and encrypted the drive (17 hours).
Concerned that I didn't have a recovery key, I read up on the forums. Sounded like if I simply used my user password, I could turn off Filevault to decrypt the drive, and I'd be back to where I started. I did so, and watched as it decrypted the drive (6 hours). Filevault indicates that is is "now off."
I thought I'd try again, so I clicked to turn on Filevault. This time, I did NOT get a recovery key (same as before) and I did NOT get the window asking if I wanted Apple to save my key — only an immediate RESTART button. I canceled.
I restarted the iMac, noting that the startup graphics were different — the iMac now starts immediately with an all-white screen, something that one forum participant said is evidence that your boot drive IS encrypted regardless of what Filevault says.
This concerned me because it now seemed like the drive might be encrypted and I had no recovery key and hadn't been asked any security questions.
I thought if I turned on Filevault I could generate a fresh recovery key that would supplant anything Apple was storing for me — and give me a chance to answer security questions.
I turned on Filevault and was, for the third time, NOT offered a recovery key but this time I DID get the window that asked if I wanted Apple to save my key. Apparently the restart at least added this screen. I cancelled.
So while Filevault says it is off, the immediate white start-up screen suggests the drive may be encrypted. Regardless, Filevault is not offering a recovery key or security questions.
I have sketchy ideas about how to rectify things:
I could start up from an external backup (unencrypted) of the boot drive, erase the boot drive, and clone the backup to the boot drive. Will that create a bootable (non-encrypted) startup drive? I don't think so ...
I could start up from the external backup (unencrypted) of the boot drive, erase the boot drive, then do a clean install of Yosemite on the boot drive. Would that clear any existing encryption? I don't know ...
Or I read about using Terminal to un-encrypt a drive?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Bradley

Click here for information. If you can't get the answers emailed to you for some reason, contact the iTunes Store staff via the link in that article.
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How to install a recovery partition after installing a new Hard drive? and FileVault help.

Hi,
I recently swapped out hard drives and when I did a Time Machine backup to the new drive, I noticed there was no Recovery HD partition for my drive. Is there a way to install it back on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011, running 10.7.4)?
On a slighlty different topic FileVault won't let me encrypt my new HD it says "Some disk formats don’t support the recovery partition required by encryption. To use encryption, reinstall this version of Mac OS X on a reformatted disk."
What formatting does my disk require for FV to be turned on? Currently it is Mac OS Extended (journaled)
If there is a solution to solve both these issues, or any one issue it would be appreciated.

The formatting being referred to is actually the presence of the Recovery Disk.
You can't enable FV2 without a recovery partition being present. The reason is strictly logical: if your entire disk was encrypted, how could you run the unencryption procedure you need to start up? That would itself be hidden behind the encryption. Hence, for FV2 to be able to work, you must have a Recovery disk present.
When you boot up with FV2 enabled, the login screen you see to enter your password is actually running from the recovery disk (invisible to the user). After you enter your password, recovery boots your encrypted partition and logs you in to your account.

FileVault Clone & Recovery

So my question is actually two-part. In the last 9 days I have had to swap out my rMBP on two separate occasions (nightmare of a story, would love to tell under separate cover, must conclude that despite all of the problems and inconveniences the AMAZING support rep I dealt with via phone from Apple customer care went ABOVE and beyond in every sense and aside from pick up and drop off, handled absolutely everything for me remotely, amazing.) I am now on my third rMBP, the second replacement. With my absolutely critical need for my only computer and everyday laptop I have had very short windows of time to SECURELY erase my extremely, sensitive to me, data in between swap outs.
On all occasions I have had FileVault2 enabled at the very least, with an 11-15 character admin/unlock password and prior to dropping it off I backed up my drive with ChronoSync and CarbonCopyCloner to (Journaled, Encrypted) USB drives. After I double-checked the backups, I booted to Disk Utility from a thumb drive and ran a quick format multiple times, switching back and forth between (Journaled) and (Journaled, Encrypted) and alternating keys. When I dropped off my original rMBP, I did one last format to non encrypted so they can install an OS and the drive didn’t even have a recovery partition and they had to download one via internet recovery.
When I took the first replacement home, I booted to my thumb drive and quick formatted the new drive to (Journaled, Encrypted) before installing a fresh copy of Mountain Lion. Rather than restoring the disk from my CarbonCopy clone, I decided to start fresh and selectively copy the data back. Note: I cannot say for sure whether I manually enabled FileVault2 or if it was already enabled as a result of the (Journaled, Encrypted) format, but I can say with certainty that it was enabled prior to the following…
When I realized that I would need to replace the computer yet again, I followed the same process, ChronoSync selective backup and CarbonCopyCloner full drive clone to (Journaled, Encrypted) USB drives, quick format back and forth between encrypted and non-encrypted partitions, alternating keys each time, leaving them with a non-encrypted drive with no recovery drive and no OS.
I DID NOT LOSE ANY DATA, I HAVE EVERYTHING SAFE: However, with actual responsibilities taking over part of my brain for a few minutes, before I ran the formats on the drive, and rushed to the Apple store, I decided to make one last selective backup of mission critical data just as a safety net should something horrible happen to my other two backup drives. To my surprise right now, I did not realize that a 1Password backup is stored in plain text. I had my 1Password backup in a BACKUP folder right on the desktop. I have spent the last couple of hours scavenging IT security blogs to see what kind of trouble I am in and I can’t seem to find anything definitive. From some articles it seems as though Passware would be able to recover an encryption key, no matter how difficult, in under 40 minutes, so long as the system wasn’t shut down entirely. The full shut down, I cannot confirm for sure on either swap out that I left with them. I can’t imagine this would be possible from a blinking folder boot with no recovery drive but, I am by no means a security “genius”. Even then, my obvious hope having resorted to the strategy was that the alternating keys with back and forth full drive encryption would render any recoverable data entirely useless.
MY FIRST QUESTION: What is the likelihood that someone would be able to recover my data? What is the likelihood that Apple outfits their stores and geniuses with a toolbox including the necessary hardware/software to accomplish this? If you think this is an issue I better, at the very least, get started on changing some 250+ passwords and calling my finance institutions.
On the second replacement, I took a shorter route, I booted to my thumb drive and quick formatted the new drive to (Journaled, Encrypted), and then restored my previous drive from the CarbonCopy clone. Everything seems to be working fine with one odd exception, shut down and boot are considerably slower 5-10x and on boot, initially I have to unlock my new disk partition that I created before the restore and then it brings me to my OS login where I can login with my previous password.
MY SECOND QUESTION: What the **** did I do wrong? Have I stumbled upon some kind of double-encryption? The two passwords can’t hurt but the slow shut down and boot are incredibly annoying. My guess is that my user account from my last computer is not lining up the drive encryption on the new machine and its causing some kind of an issue.

Passware can be used to uncover a FileVault password, but there are restrictions. First, it requires the system to be on and the encrypted drive to be unlocked. Second, it requires DMA access through firewire ports, which Apple's various screen locking routines block when enabled.
If your system was encrypted with FileVault and shut off when you gave it to the techs, then it should be fully secured. At most they can wipe the data off of it, but not read data from it.

HT4718 No 1. I can not activate Filevault : FileVault can't be turned on for the disk "Macintosh HD". Some disk formats don't support the recovery partition required by encryption. To use encryption, reinstall this version of Mac OS X on a reformatted

I have TWO PROBLEMS
No 1. I can not activate FileVault. It displyas as follows :
FileVault can’t be turned on for the disk “Macintosh HD”.
Some disk formats don’t support the recovery partition required by encryption. To use encryption, reinstall this version of Mac OS X on a reformatted disk.
No 2. I can not activate Find My Mac service. It displays as follows :
Find My Mac requires a recovery partition
Some configurations, such as software or hardware RAID, do not support a recovery partition and can't be used with find my mac

Restart holding down the option/alt key and see if you have a Recovery Volume.
Recovery Partition – Recreate Without Reinstalling
Recovery Partition – Recreate Without Reinstalling (Requires Installer)
Recovery Drive – Restore Missing
Recovery Disk Assistant

I can't access the recovery system form cmd r in startup. My startup screen asks to reset password to unlock FileVault and HD Volume?

When I start up my computer, its for some reason asks me to reset my password. I have three options here all leading to resetting the password. Each time I am told that I need to unlock my FileVault or that I need to unlock my HD Volume, what ever that means? When I reset the password it asks me to restart - and after I restart it goes to black screen for about 5 minutes before shutting down.
When I try starting the computer again and holding down cmd+r or cmd+s the same procedure starts over again.
How do I reach the recovery system????

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
{ diskutil list; echo; diskutil cs list; } | open -f -a TextEdit
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.

Filevault password not changed after recovery

Hi,
I am currently testing the FileVault capabilities at work.
When I unlock a Mac with the recovery key, it gives me the possibility to set a new password and the desktop is presented. After a system restart I noticed that FileVault does not accept the new password. When I use the old password, the drive gets unlocked and then i need to log in again with the new password.
In the following article, Apple recommends to turn off FileVault and after decryption has ended to turn on FileVault again. OS X: About FileVault 2 - Apple Support. This is not an acceptable option as this takes approximately 10 hours to complete.
How do I get the FileVault and user account password in sync again without re-encryption?

The easiest way is to deauthorize the user to unlock FileVault in its settings, then re-authorize. To do that, you'll need to authorize at least one other user first.

My laptop has FileVault turned on. How would I obtain the Recovery Key from Apple should I need it?

My laptop has FileVault turned on. I remember a Recovery Key was created for me but I can't find it. I do know the log in password for my computer so I am not locked out. How would I obtain the Recovery Key should I need it?

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11381

FileVault 2 and Time Machine recovery

Hi,
After reading a lot of forum posts about FileVault 2, almost everything seems to be clear to me, but I still have one important question:
My Macbook Pro (on Mountain Lion) backups automatically to my Time Capsule through Time Machine. When I enable FileVault 2, and my Macbook is stolen, can I just buy a new Macbook and restore it from the (unencrypted) Time Machine backup? Or will this give problems because the 'original' Macbook the backup was made off, had FileVault enabled?
Thanks in advance

To answer your question directly, yes, you would be able to purchase a new MacBook and restore from the unencrypted backup. The backup data is not encrypted by default, that is why you can only back up to Time Machine while logged in.
You can also choose to encrypt your Time Machine backup, in which case you would still be able to do the same thing, it would just require you to enter your Time Machine's password to start the recovery process.

Cannot access recovery partition after enabling filevault

I did a clean install of Lion by extracting the disk image to an external Firewire drive, using disk utility to reparition my Macbook Pro's internal drive to a single, blank HFS+ parition, and then installed Lion to that partition from the external firewire drive. It worked flawlessly. At that point, without the firewire drive plugged in, I could boot to Lion, and if I held option while starting the computer, I could also see the recovery parition as an option to boot into.
After that, I used Bootcamp to install Windows, which resized my Lion partition. After that, I enabled FileVault. Everything went resonabley well: The Lion partition is now encrypted, and Windows still works, and the computer is functioning, however when holding option at boot, the only options I see are Lion and Windows. The Recovery boot option is no longer visible. I don't know if it was the act of using Bootcamp, or Filevault (or the combination of both) that caused it to dissapear, but I changed nothing else that I can think of.
I'm resonabley certain the actual recovery partition is still there. The diskutil list command outputs the following:
Lownins-MacBook-Pro:~ Lownin$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         259.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows                 60.2 GB    disk0s4
My question is: How do I re-enable the Apple_Boot Recovery partition as a boot option from the "option key while booting" menu?

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