Will internet recovery wipe my Mac?

I am having some issues whith my Mac freezing:
2014-04-13 20:52:01,097 WindowServer[108]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Aperture" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
2014-04-13 20:52:02,746 WindowServer[108]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Aperture" after 2.65 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
After repairing the hard drive I thought I'd give Apple Hardware Test a go. I have a MacBookPro10,1 (early 2013) wit 10.9.2. I suspect I don't have a recovery partition.
When I press the D key while rebooting, it goes straigt to internet recovery, asking me WiFi credentials. Can I continue or will it wipe my Mac?

So you are saying that after the message “Starting recovery process from network. This might take a while.” (see picture below) I will be given an interface similar to disk utility first, where I can choose what I want to do before anything is erased from my hard drive?

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Will internet recovery work on my mid 2010 MBP with yosemite and the firmare internet recovoery update designed for OS lion

will internet recovery work on my mid 2010 MBP with yosemite and the firmare internet recovery update designed for OS lion

Yes, it does. The point is can your computer use full Internet Recovery with the firmware update or not. If not then you have to begin with the Snow Leopard DVD that came with your computer and do an Erase and Install.
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.
However, if you can use full Internet Recovery:
Install Yosemite, Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
This should restore the version of OS X originally pre-installed on the computer.

Does Internet Recovery Wipe everything from my iMac? If it doesn't what does it do?

I really need help as my safari doesnt work and i thought reinstalling mavericks would help but i as woindering the best way to do this without deleteing everyting from my iMac. I found that internet recovery may be helpful but i need to know if it will wipe my iMac. Please reply soon.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
OS X Internet Recovery
Mac models introduced after public availability of OS X Lion include the ability to start up directly from an Internet-based version of the OS X Recovery system. OS X automatically uses this feature when the Recovery System on the hard disk isn't available (such as when your hard disk encounters an issue, or when your hard disk has been replaced or erased). OS X Internet Recovery lets you start your Mac directly from Apple's servers. Starting up from this system performs a quick test of your memory and hard drive to check for hardware issues.
OS X Internet Recovery presents a limited interface at first, with only the ability to select your preferred Wi-Fi network and, if needed, entering a passphrase. Next, OS X Internet Recovery downloads and starts from a Recovery System image. From there, you are offered the same utilities and options as a local Recovery System.

Using Lion Internet Recovery on new Mac Pro...

I have a Mac Pro that I purchased in February 2012, and I'm selling it because the printing sub-system on a Mac is terrible. Won't go into details here -- suffice to say I've spent these past 3 months going round-and-round with printing issues, and I'm tired of dealing with it...
Since I'm selling it, I wanted to erase everything and re-set it all back to factory specs...
I had two partitions on there, the original Mac partition, and a BootCamp partition... Booting up using Command+R and selecting Disk Utility wouldn't let me erase those partitions and create a single new partition... Kept giving me a Cannot Unmount Disk error... So I used a partition manager on The Ultimate Boot CD to erase the paritions on my Mac's HDD... Figured I would then use Internet Recovery to re-load everything on there... Don't really care if it takes a few hours to download...
But Internet Recovery is not working!!! I hold Command+R or Command+Option+R and they both do the same thing -- a blinking folder with a question-mark in the midddle of it.
And the only thing I can find that will let me try using an external disk to boot with is something called Lion Recovery Disk Assistant -- but I can't use that because it requires a functioning Mac with a Recovery Partition...
So how do I get this stupid thing to boot up to the Internet Recovery mode? I need to get it ready to ship later today...
Thanks,
Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA

Contact Apple's Express Lane.

Hi i had made internet recovery for my mac, and now trying to instal the osx on external hard disk

Hi , i had my mac showing the question mark box. So i made internet recovery, and now i'm trying to download the osx lion on external hard disk as it shows , but its failing again, i dont know why

mamdouh elchami,
which model MacBook Pro do you have? If I understand you correctly, you have already made a successful OS X Internet recovery to your internal disk, and now you would like to install Lion on an external disk. Was it Lion that you had successfully downloaded and installed to your internal disk?

HT4718 Will internet recovery reinstall the iLife suite?

Just wondering how I do a clean install of OSX on my Macbook Air, including all the apps that were there originally, such as iLife. This has to be done without creating a new user account on the machine, i.e I don't want to redownload from the MAS, as I've sold the laptop and want to deliver it "factory fresh", without users...

The only way to do a clean install of iLife if you are reformating the Mac is to use an older iLife disk to install it rather than a newer version of iLife from the App Store. iLife is Not contained in the Recovery Partition; iLife is added Apps that are not part of OS X.

HELP !!! I can not access the Internet Recovery In Mac Pro!

HELP !!! I can not access the Internet Recovery on my Mac Pro (mid 2012)! Mac Pro has Internet Recovery ?

"Regular" Recovery (from the Recovery partition on your Hard drive or your Time Machine Backup) remains available, but Internet Recovery (from firmware only) is not a feature on the silver tower Mac Pro. It is not on this list:
Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery - Apple Support
But the basic recovery features are available if a recovery partition is available:
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support

Internet Recovery - can only recover to Mountain Lion?

I'm trying to re-install OS X onto my MacBook Pro, but I'm currently in somewhat of a catch-22 situation.
I've used Internet Recovery to bring up a recovery-console type thing which has an option to install OS-X - great, the trouble is that it wants to install OS X 10.8 - Mountain Lion, and, since I haven't bought that version, I don't have a licence so it correctly realises this, and stops me trying to install it.
Now, the catch 22 appears. I can't purchase Mountain Lion, since the only way to do this appears to be from the App store, and I don't have a working Mac. I don't have a working Mac since I can't install Mountain Lion!
So, is there a way to use Intenet Recovery to install Lion (which I *do* have a licence for), or to purchase Mountain Lion without using the app-store?
[For the purposes of this discussion, assume that I don't have access to another OS X computer, or my original install DVDs (they're about 150 km away!). I also rather install Lion for the moment if possible, rather than paying for the upgrade.]

NeoAnjou wrote:
Thank you, but I'm not a fool - when you choose the install option you get an image of a mountain lion, it says 'Installing 10.8 Montain Lion', and when I have entered my apple-account details it says 'the account was not used to purchase Montain Lion' ... so that seems pretty conclusive to me!
I'm not entirely sure what version of the MacBook I have since I bought it reconditioned, but it pre-dates Lion, and I upgraded to that version after release. It's probably an early 2011 model.
You bought it Reconditioned from where? From Apple or from some other Mac sales farm?
If it Pre-Dates Lion then it should of come with 2 Reinstall DVDs, one for the OS (Snow Leopard) and one for the included iLife Applications. Did it come with those DVDs?
What version of OS X was installed on it when you got it? Was it Snow Leopard?
Why are you trying to use Internet Recovery? Actually Internet Recovery is for Mac's that originally came with one of the 2 Download Only version of OS X, Lion and Mt Lion, even though some older models, early 2011 and some 2010 models, can access it.
You can always use the Built in Recovery HD partition, that is if you still have one on your internal drive, to Reinstall the current version of the download only version of OS X. In your case that would be Lion.
If your Mac Pre-Dates Lion and you don't have the original reinstall DVDs then you need to contact Apple and get them. As if and when you ever want to sell or give that Mac away you MUST reinstall that version of OS X on that Mac. You can not sell or give it away with one of the download only version of OS X as those would be tied to YOUR Apple ID.
I have a Mac that came with Lion Pre-Installed and have upgraded to Mt Lion. I am going to do a check on my system to see what version of OS X is installed using Internet Recovery. For my system it should be Lion even though I have upgraded to ML.
For you and your system to reinstall Lion you would need to use the built in Recovery HD partition or use a USB thumb drive that you created with Lion or that you used the Lion Recovery Disk Asssistant program to copy the Lion Recovery HD partition to.
Or first reinstall Snow Leopard, the original OS that came on your Mac, and then use the Mac App Store to upgrade to Lion again.
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My macbook pro has been stolen and i had icloud and find my mac installed. If the thief was to wipe my harddrive and use internet recovery, will my find my mac still work?

Hey guys, so I recently had my macbook pro stolen. I had my find my mac turned on and i was wondering if i could still track my laptop if the thief wiped my hard drive and the recovery partition, but if they reinstalled the mountain lion osx from the internet recovery would that erase the find my mac feature? Thank you guys for all the help. Just doing what i can to try and retrieve my laptop. Thanks

Yes, if the wiped the drive Find My Mac would no longer work. The can't reinstall Mountain Lion without your Apple ID or an Apple ID of their own.
OS X Lion- About Find My Mac
Apple - Support - iCloud - Find My iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac

Clean Mac Mini Internet Recovery Install. App Store refuses to Install ilife11 "Not linked to Apple ID"

Hi. i got my Mini and replaced my HDD for a hybrid SSD. did a internet recovery install or lion. once installed i clicked on the app store. and it asked me to verify and link the 3 ilife apps to my account. i entered my details and all went well. i then was taken to the update page. but app store refuses to download the updates saying the products are not linked to my id!!! when i go back to purchases tab. it says i have no purchased apps at all.
what can i do please? i cant even work out who to contact about this.
many thanks
James

Hi James,
Does it list Lion as purchased?
If not go to the main page and look on the right to make sure you are logged in:
If you are logged in and not seeing any purchases then the next option is the Support button - this will launch a new browser window and one of the Contact Support options is Account and billing.
It's all very new so that is the best I can come up with at the moment
Regards,
Colin R.
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PS Did you originally buy the iLife apps through the Mac App Store?

Stuck at mac os x utilites/internet recovery only option when booting up?

Okay I have a macbook pro I bought from someone for $5, I was emptying the trash and this dude goes towards and it and throws it in the garbage can, I ask whats wrong with it, he says he does not know and it only goes to mac os x utilities, when you put internet recovery so i offered him $5 for it even though it is in the trash he accepts and says good luck and he drives off. Their is no disk drives when trying to recover only internet recoevery, when I try Clicking reinstall mac os x it says install information cannot be found, I Need a step to step guide on how to make a recovery hd, The hard drive is in, and their is a disk1 with MAC OS X Base system.

You will need to boot the computer using Internet Recovery in order to install OS X properly. You cannot use the OS X installed by someone else.
Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
This should restore the version of OS X originally pre-installed on the computer.

Mac Mini mid 2011 kernel panic with Lion Internet Recovery

My Mac Mini froze while using Safari and watching a youtube video, so I restarted the machine by holding down the power button, then on startup I reloaded Safari, and it completely froze again. This time around, I got a kernel panic on boot. I tried booting into single user mode by holding down the shift key, but that still gave me a kernel panic. So I tried using the Lion Internet Recovery mode by holding down command-option-R when booting. The OS showed the Internet Recovery progress bar, but when it completed and the machine rebooted, I got a kernel panic again.
Is there anything else I can try to recover this machine, or do I need to take it into an Apple store to have them fix it? It's a mid-2011 model, so I don't have a DVD drive in it, so I can't use a boot disc, although I guess I could use a bootable USB, but I don't have another machine to create one with.
I figure if it kernel panics from an Internet Recovery, then that takes my hard drive and anything that was installed on it out of the equation. I've also disconnected all external devices, drives, etc, and only have a monitor and keyboard/mouse attached to it, so that rules out any other devices that might be causing problems.
Thanks for any advice
Adam

Make sure the monitor is plugged in firmly as well as your keyboard/mouse.
Try resetting the PRAM.
Reset your computer’s PRAM
It's less likely to be helpful but if resetting PRAM doesn't help try resetting the SMC.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
If neither of those things work it's probably time to visit the Genius bar.

I can connect my tc to the internet and back up my iMac, but it will not back up my mac book pro... ANY thoughts?

i can connect my tc to the internet and back up my iMac, but it will not back up my mac book pro... ANY thoughts?

When I go to connect my MBP, it says I have the wrong user name and/or password; however the names and password are the same on both computers.
The MBP connects smoothly to the internet, just not the TC.
Does this help?
There is no login name required to get internet unless you are running a vpn or pppoe client.
The wireless uses a security key.. but that is fixed in the wireless setup.. so no user login should be required at any time.
It sounds to me like you have the wrong setup.
Please do a screen shot and post it of the imac setup that works.. show us the airport network with its ip address and where you are putting in the login.
Please also do a snapshot of the TC and how it is setup.
What broadband do you have?
Is the TC a router or bridged?

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