Reinstall Mac Os X 10.9 from Recovery Partition

Hi, I have some problems with my Os X, and I want to reinstall it from Recovery Partition. I'm wondering, will I lose all my files after reinstalling?

If you erase and install OS X, you will lose all your data.
If you reinstall OS X, theoretically speaking, you should not lose any data. But there is no guarantee.
You should have a backup before undertaking any such action.
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Unable to reinstall Mountain Lion from recovery partition

Hi there,
   I have formatted my main HDD partition and then boot from recovery partition. I have a MacBook Pro 2011 series. I have reinstalled my Mountain Lion following on screen instructions. But when It's says is OK and 100% installed and begin restart the system, it is unable to boot and automatically boot from recovery partition again.
   Can anybody help me? What I have to do?
   Thanks in advance.
   vzuritae.

Why did you start this process in the first place? Was there something wrong with the original install of Mt Lion? Like your system wouldn't startup anymore?
I suspect it is a hardware problem and may be the drive is failing.
Is your Mac a Early or Late 2011 model. Did it come with Lion Pre-installed?
If it came with Lion Preinstalled then you can use the Online Internet Recovery system to first reinstall Lion. At startup hold down the Command+Option/Alt+r keys until you see a spinning globe in the center of the screen. From that screen select Disk Utility and Re-Partition the drive as One partition. Then close DU and select Reinstall Mac OS X. If after the install of Lion is downloaded and finishes the install your system still refuses to boot up properly then you have a hardware problem and only Apple can fix a hardware problem.

TS4303 When I try to Reinstall Mac OS X Lion using the Recovery by choosing the partition, I got an error message saying that it protected. What should I do?

My Macbook Pro will not start anymore after the update.
When I try to Reinstall Mac OS X Lion using the Recovery by choosing the partition, I got an error message saying that it protected. What should I do?

Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
If that doesn't help Reinstall the OS.

Install from Recovery partition after upgrade from 10.9

Hi all, on my MacBook 13" nov. 2012 I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite using the standard upgrade.
After a couple of days I decided to perform a clean install:
- formatted "Macintosh HD Partition"
- rebooted with cmd+R
- reinstalled from recovery partition.
Is this really a clean install or my recovery partition contains pieces of the old Mavericks?
Thanks in advance for answering
Paolo

paolo_italy wrote:
First I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite (with no erase). Then I booted from recovery partition, erased Macintosh HD partition and installed Yosemite.
My question is: did I perform a really clean install or to be sure I had to erase the entire disk and recover from the Internet?
Paolo
You performed a clean install of OS X Yosemite.
You were in the Yosemite Recovery HD.
You erased the Macintosh HD which erases the previous OS install, user accounts and data files -- everything! Then you reinstalled JUST OS X Yosemite.

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.

During recovery from recovery partition I get message "INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing

During recovery from recovery partition I get message:
INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 14.
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
Now I have a computer with a recovery partition and that's about it.
The C partition has been formatted by recovery and files have been copied but I can't get any further.
The computer is an nc6220 and the OS, if the recovery would work, is winXP pro.
Anyone have any ideas ?

I assume you ran recovery from the hard drive?
If so,
I would run a chkdsk on the recovery partition it may fix the sif file corruption.
You can do this from a XP boot cd using the command prompt, you just need to run it on the recovery partition instead of the C drive as explained in this article.
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=5097
if you use the
map
command, it will list all the partitions and the drive letters
so the command might look something like this
chkdsk /r D:
D: represents the recovery partition, which may be different than D:

Reinstalling Mountain Lion from recovery partition

Hi,
I am trying to reinstall the Mountain Lion OS from my recovery partition. I have already erased my drive and attempted to reinstall like I have always done. This time though it is asking for an apple id that was used to purchase lion. However I went from snow leapord to Mountain Lion, and am trying to reinstall my mountain lion.
I have done this before countless times and it has always worked, but now its not. I can not make a bootable flash drive to use as I already erased my hard drive and this is the only mac I have.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Jeff

These are the instructions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11273
Can you start up your MBP holding down the OPTION key ands access the Recovery partition?
What model MBP do you have? Did it come with installation disks? You may have to use those first before you can install Mt. Lion.
Ciao.

How to reinstall vista in L 305 - S 5919 from recovery partition

hi,
when i take the recovery partition it shows a "system recovery option" dialogue box. but it is not showing any OS in it. so i clicked on "load drivers" which prompts me to select drivers from the installation media. there i can see my prmary hard disk with 140gb, a 35mb boot drive, 1.46gb toshiba recovery drive, none of which is helpful in selecting the driver. Can anyone help me in selecting the OS?
One more thing is that, when i take disk management from "my computer" properties, there it is showing a drive with 7gb which i am not able to access from anywhere?why is it so?
Expecting replies
with regards,
abt

thank u jerry...
but, my problem is still unsolved...
i have gone through the link u provided(http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/bulletin.jsp?ref=EV&soid=2222431&ct=SB) and also through the userguide. My system is in the second category with 3 partitions...140GB, 1.46GB, 7.22 GB.
And so i suppose all my recovery files and images will be in the 7.22GB partition.
When i start my system i pressed on 0(zero) to go into that partition. But there is no option which provides a recovery. The options present were "select OS" and there windows vista basic is present. If i click on that then the system will boot normally, and no recovery happens. The other option being "check for memory errorrs". That also wont provide any recovery option..
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Can't boot from recovery partition in Mountain Lion

I've installed Mountain Lion on two different boxes so far: a 20" iMac at home and a Mac Mini at work. Both had up to date Lion installations prior to the upgrade. After installing Mountain Lion I am not able to boot in to the recovery partition on either one. Whether I hold down Command-R to go directly to the recovery parittion, or simply hold down Option to get a choice of boot devices, I am taken directly to the login screen.
The recovery partition is there on both boxes, and I can mount it and examine it using 'diskutil' from the command line. I created a USB image of the recovery partition on the iMac, and the Startup Disk control panel allowed be to select it as a boot device, but the box (both boxes, actually; I also tried it on the Mini) booted directly to the login screen.
I honestly don't know whether I could boot to the recovery partition prior to upgrading to Mountatin Lion or not. When I first installed Lion on the iMac I did not get a recovery paritition, but Apple sent me a USB drive and after cleaning up the disk (getting rid of an unused Boot Camp partition) I was able to get a clean install with a functioning recovery paritition. However I never booted from it after confirming that it worked.
Anyone else see anything like this? Or have an idea how to fix it?
- Larry

Ok but you can get the Option key to work.
There is a utility to Rebuild the recovery HD partition.
Look here first.
Removing and rebuilding a malfunctioning Recovery HD partition « Der Flounder
Then in that article a link to download or find the Recovery HD utility on the Apple website.
But that was originally for Lion. So you may have to rebuild the Lion R-HD then Reinstall Mt Lion over the top of your current install of Mt Lion for it to make the Mt Lion R-HD.
Depending on the age of your Mac's you may also be able to use the Online (Internet) Recovery HD system. To get to that with a R-HD partition on the system, even if that R-HD partition sin't working, you hold down Command+Option+r keys when starting the system (And yes with the USB keyboard attached).

Using Disk Utility From Recovery Partition

Is there an advantage to repairing permissions after booting into Recovery disk? (Hold Option key as restart) I realize that Repair disk will be available if needed & it is not available when using Disk Utility from Mac HD partition.

Thanks!
I thought that was the case but I had read multiple accounts of people with slow Macs after upgrading to Mavericks, running repair disk permissions from recovery disk to fix the problem. I wondered why not just run repair permissions w/o restarting into recovery disk. Then they can also run verify disk, if they wish & only if there is a problem with the disk would they need to boot to recovery disk in order to run repair disk.

F11 Not Working to Recover OS from Recovery Partition

Hi,
I want to reinstall Windows OS from my recovery partition and not able to do so via F11 button from the boot screen because after pressing F11 continiously, the window does not take me the recovery options and instead take me normally to windows logon screen (also get beeps sounds while I press F11 button continously).
I have tried all following methods earlier:
1) Tried to make partinoed disk to primary from Disk Management (for which the options is not coming when I right click on the partitoned disk.)
2) Don't able to make bootable disc (burn IOS) as my CD/DVD writer is not working.
3) Dont' have inbuit software of recovery manager installed (can i do so now if I could recover the windows by this method), can you advise if it can be installed and can work for me.
Thanks,
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Hi,
If you have a Windows 7 ISO file, another option you could try would be to create a bootable USB Flash drive and install from this.
If you need a utility to create a bootable Flash Drive from the Image file, try the free application below.
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
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Clean install of Mavericks from Recovery Partition

Can you do a clean install of Mavericks from the Recovery Partition (cmd+R on boot)? Or do I need to put in the DVD that came with the 2010 MacBook Pro, boot to that, reformat drive, and install/upgrade from there?
Yes, I know you can make a USB boot drive (which I don't have). Can I boot to the recovery partition, reformat the drive, and then install Mavericks from there? Or will there be other issues? I do not want to restore from a Time Machine drive (which is also on the fritz), I want a clean install. Thanks.

To 'clean install' you need to erase the partition for OS X…
Boot into recovery mode.
Select Disk Utility from the options list.
Select your boot disk in the left sidebar and then find the desired partition (these are indented below the disk icon).
In the erase tab, erase the OS X volume and format the new partition as a 'Mac OS Extended (journaled)' volume.
Quit Disk Utility & select the installer from the main screen.
I'd strongly suggest you backup all the other OS's before you begin since it is possible to erase the wrong partition!
The installer will be downloaded from Apple so you should use a wired connection if possible - wifi can be slow & unreliable, it will save time if your internet connection is faster than wifi.

Can't recover from recovery partition with OneKey after disastrous Win 8.1 upgrade

I have a U410 that is only a couple months old. A few days ago I decided to take the plunge and accept the free upgrade to Windows 8.1.
Big mistake.
SInce the upgrade, I've had a slew of problems ranging from programs not running to hard disk integrity checks every time I restart the computer. I've already refreshed the computer (wiping all programs), with no luck. Now I'd like to restore from the recovery partition. However, when I press the onekey button I get the same behavior described here, and can't boot to system recovery mode.
Based on some of the posts in this thread, I gather that any change in the partition sizes pretty much breaks the onekey software, but that sometimes restoring the factory partition sizes can cause it to work again. I haven't knowingly made any changes to the partition sizes, yet looking at disk management I am seeing more partitions than I would have expected (not sure if they were there before the upgrade since I've never looked before). I would like to know if there's any way I can regain access to the recovery partition--and if not, what my best bet is for undoing the damage the 8.1 upgrade did to my OS.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Dang, that's dissapointing. I did see it mentioned elsewhere that recovery discs are only $16 though. I had thought they'd be $100+ or something, so that aint so bad. I'll get on that.
Thanks for your time

How can i install Windows XP on IBM T43 from recovery partition ?

I have a secret recovery partition with some GB in size on my IBM T43 laptop and i want to install Windows XP from it.
How can i do that? I will loose all my data from HDD or I can keep D: partition intact ?
What are the steps i should follow to install XP from secret hdd recovery partition ? Are the drivers also on this partition ?
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Hello,
Perhaps one of the discs is not labeled correctly. Try going through all of them to see if one of them works.
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How do I create an install disk from recovery partition to install on a blank hd

So, my hard drive is slowly dying . . . about all I'm able to access is the recovery partition. I bought a new hard drive to replace it, but no longer have the install disks that came with the computer. How do I make install disks from the recovery partition that I can use to install Mountain Lion back onto the new hard drive?

You have two possibilities:
1. Open App Store > Purchases and download Mountain Lion. When the download has finished, open Lion Diskmaker to make a bootable Mountain Lion USB drive > http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/
2. Download Recovery Disk Assistant from the Support website to create a Recovery HD on your USB drive.
The difference between them is that the first contains OS X Mountain Lion, so you won't have to download Mountain Lion from the App Store when you are going to install Mountain Lion

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