Recovery Partition on new HD

I recently replaced my hard drive on my MBP and used time maching to get all of my stuff back to my new HD.  Is there a way to install the recovery partition on the new drive as well or am I forced to use the internet based recovery?

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    my new HP pavilion g4 laptop HDD have crased, then I replce it by HP care. I upload original win 7 by recovery disk(DVD) but when I open my computer it shows only one partition (C drive, there is no recovery partition and HP tool.
    So how to creates recovery partition by recovery disk(DVD)...........please help me.

    Creating the recovery partition
    Right-click the start orb, and start 'Disk Management'.
    Shrink the C: drive by let's say 20-30GB.
    Then create a new Partition and assign the R: label to it and name it RECOVERY.
    Then open command prompt as administrator and type: 'recimg /createimage <directory>',
    In this case: 'recimg /createimage R:\' to save it on the new partition.
    This step may consume a lot of time.
    Now we need to register the newly created recovery image: 'recimg /setcurrent <directory>'
    'recimg /setcurrent R:\'
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    Press the Windows-key + C to open the charms bar or swipe in from the right.
    Click Settings.
    Click Change PC Settings.
    Click Update & Recovery in the menu on the left.
    Click Recovery.
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  • Recovery CDs and new HDD

    Hello all in Lenovo community. All I would like to know is if I can use recovery media made with RnR 4.2 to create hidden RnR partition in my new purely clean HDD? I mean, will it create a recovery partition, write new MBR, so the new HDD would be just like the old one, with working Think Vantage button? Thank you for support.

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  • The guide to bootcamp assistant states that bootcamp can only be installed on a drive with a single partition. New Macs with Lion preinstalled have two partitions - the second is a recovery partition.  How do I install Bootcamp?

    Late in August 2011 I took delivery of a new 27" iMac with Lion preinstalled.  I need to run Windows as well. Following Apple's written suggestion, I printed off the then current 12 pages of the document "Bootcamp Installation & Setup Guide" which clearly stated that the hard drive you were going to install on had to have on it, before install, a maximum of one partition.  Using finder and disk utility I determined that there was only one partition.  Unbeknownst to me, there was (is) an additional hidden (from those two pieces of software) partition on the disk.  As of machines delivered new with Lion preinstalled, Apple has begun to include a "recovery partition".  In that partition there is a copy of the software necessary to reinstall Lion via a download from the Apple App Store.  Not knowing the partition was there, I cranked up  "Bootcamp Assistant" which nicely offered to repartition my hard drive creating a "Bootcamp Partition" in addition to the existing.  I told it how big to make each and hit the do it button, subsequently destroying my operating system.  Oh, it very nicely told me, after the damage was done, how many partitions were REALLY on the disk and that I could not install Bootcamp cause there were too many partitions.
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    First you need to seriously back up your Mac.
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    In dealing with the recovery partition a simple approach is to clone the Mac partition to an external disk then re-partition the Mac to a single partition (GUID partition table) . Then clone the external disk clone back to the Mac. You will now have only one Partition and Boot Camp assistant sould not object.
    Some have recommended getting rid of the recovery partition while others have advised not to do this. If you have the Lion USB Thumb Drive you do not need a recovery partition so can discard it without concern. There is another way to get rid of the recovery partition if you decide to do it but first be sure to have a backup of your Mac ( I know I sound like a nagging mom but many dead computers have been saved by this simple precaution).
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    6) Click and hold on the bottom edge of the partition above and drag it to the bottom, if it doesn't go there automatically, the press apply.

  • 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.

  • How to make a new recovery partition on a 600 series

    Well I thought this was worth a mention as nobody seems to have said it could be done.
    Having just got the cheep 600 series unit working I wanted to restore the RESTORE PARTITION.
    Mostly to get the F11 function working as it should after fitting a Brand new HDD.
    The OS is WIN7x64 but I would guess the same could be said for others.
    It is actually quite simple and perhaps has been described in better detail elsewhere but here we go.
    Oh, I actually did this a few different ways and got some very interesting results,
    including one that needed the F11 pressing before boot or it would fail to load windows after the recovery.
    Nice little hidden security function.! But breaks the restore ability !!!
    If you want to disable the F11 recovery option then you need to rename a file.
    Perhaps not disable but MakeFail !
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    You will need your Original Restore DVD's (Cd's) for this if I did not assume that already.
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    If you need to be told how to partition the disk then ask. (Right click My Computer, select Manage)
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    NOTICE: >> THIS IS GOING TO DESTROY ANY DATA ON THAT DRIVE ...
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    Make these in order.
    partition 1 = 100 meg PRIMARY, UNFORMATTED, NO LABEL, NO DRIVE LETTER.
    partition 2 = ??? PRIMARY, UNFORMATTED, NO LABEL, NO DRIVE LETTER 
    (calculate size from remaining space less partition3 size)
    partition 3 = PRIMARY, NTFS, ANY LABEL, ANY DRIVE LETTER. 
    (This needs to be large enough for ALL your recovery disks plus a little more.)
    So if you only have one Restore DVD make the third partition about 5gigs.
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    Add some more space if you want to store more stuff on that partition.
    Format the 3rd partition, then copy in order ALL the restore disks to the NEW drive.
    You can also copy other files to this partition if you want.
    Best to keep it tidy and make a new folder for your own stuff.
    Stuff like AV installers, Updates, Application installers.
    The Recovery process will HIDE ALL folders on the recovery drive but they will still be there.
    So that should be it.
    You have got 3 partitions?,
    You copied all the DVD's to the 3rd one,?
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    Put in the "Recovery 1 DVD" and boot the machine.
    When asked if you want to use the recovery from disk or harddrive,, select DVD Disk.
    Once the install is complete the F11 button on bootup should now work error free.
    Well ,,  it did for me...
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    I did another system restore via the F11 button just for the fun of it.
    Just so you know the system restore takes less than a quarter of the time from HDD over DVD.
    I was going to check the process of making another NEW set of DVD recovery disks from the NEW drive,
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    Hv.
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    Depending on the software you use to clone will it copy the recovery partition or not    ex  SuperDuper does not.
    You can always reinstall the OS on top of what you have. This will re-create the recovery partition without touching your user files, documents, photos, bookmarks etc. After that you may have to run the software update to get the latest OSX update 10.10.1
    One draw back to no recovery partition is iCloud>Find my Mac will not be functional.
    From option command R on start or from an installer SD card you created.
    Recovery  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

  • How do I partition a new HD to include Recovery?

    I have a MacBook Pro (Early 2008).
    I upgraded the internal HD to a new 1TB drive.  Works great.
    The HD was totally blank.
    I have a double-layer DVD built from the Mavericks install image.  It works great (although it's slow).
    I installed Mavericks, by booting from the DVD and following instructions.
    The first time, it didn't find a drive to install on.  I thought Mavericks was capable of detecting the blank HD and automatically installing on there, setting up all partitions as necessary?  Strange that it didn't do this.
    Anyway, I ran Disk Utility from the menu.  It successfully found my 1TB drive.  I partitioned it, creating 1 partition, of type "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
    As we know by now, this was a mistake.  I should have created 2 partitions: one for Recovery and another to hold the full installation.  I got a successful Mavericks installation, which worked.  However, no recovery partition, which means no Find My Mac, not acceptable.
    So, time to try it again.  I have these 4 questions:
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    2) Should the recovery partition come BEFORE, or AFTER, the main partition?  I've heard both ways, not sure which is correct.  Does it matter?
    3) What partition type?  Is the recovery partition also "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", or is it something else?
    4) Do I need to do anything special in order to tell the Mavericks installer where to find my recovery partition, or will it find it automatically, since it's on the same HD as the main partition that I'm trying to install into?
    Thanks!
    Josh

    Thanks!
    I followed the instructions from that page, downloaded the program, pointed it at my 8GB USB key, and it worked.  It was a little flaky, popping up some strange dialog boxes (such as a box that was empty except for the number "1" and OK/Cancel buttons at bottom, I guessed and hit OK).
    The USB key became bootable.  I booted into it OK.  I wanted to erase the entire hard drive completely empty, but the best that Disk Utility allows is to go back to a single partition, so I did that, as you said.  GPT type, of course.
    The install went normally, taking 25 minutes or so, then it rebooted, but the USB key still was the bootable device!  It immediately started over, doing *another* 25 minutes on the progress bar.  I had to go to a meeting so just left the computer unattended for an hour or so.  When I came back, it seems to have settled down, because it was now at the Mavericks welcome screen!  That's good news.  I gave it the test, by removing the USB key then rebooting, and it passed.
    I did "diskutil list" and was happy to see the recovery partition had been successfully created!  Now I can enable "Find My Mac" without errors.
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  • How to make Recovery Partition in my new HDD (Win8.1)

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  • New HD: Restoring the recovery partition

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    The recovery disks will also make the service partition during installation process
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  • I want to make recovery partition on my new macbook pro without loosing my data

    i want to make recovery partition on my new macbook pro without loosing my data

    You already have one. Hold command r keys and boot the machine into it to see.
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