What's this recovery HD?
Hello to all!
I am puzzled with this 'RECOVERY HD' which is appearing under the 'Cameras' section when importing footage into my event. The reading circle spins on endlessly and the letters are perpetually greyed out. May I be informed of its implication?
Thanks in advance.
Dr. Somanna
Weird. This should never appear in FCP X, or in the Finder, for that matter.
The Recovery HD is a hidden partition in your drive. It is created when you install the OS (it has been there since Lion, I think; it definitely existed in ML).
This can be used, for example, to run Disk Utility to repair the system drive, or to make a new installation in case something goes wrong.
It was a natural consequence of the fact that we no longer typically have an installation DVD or other drive to run these tasks.
One can boot from the Recovery HD by holding down the option key at start up, and the selecting it from the presented choice of drives.
I wonder: does this appear also in the sidebar of Finder windows?
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