![]() ![]() ![]() With a naked hard drive and no thumb drive, nothing would happen, so I don't see how holding down the option key would achieve anything. (If restoring my OS and files didn't "install" them, then we're speaking different languages.) I don't even know how to ask questions about same vis-à -vis my circumstances. I'm also stymied by your "installer" comments. I am very reluctant to start futzing around with what I've got, since everything is working hunkydory without the Recovery HD installed but being accessible via the thumb drive. If so, I could always go back and try to do another restore if that indeed would put Recovery HD on the hard drive. I interpret it as: With no thumb drive connected and only my backup hard drive containing TM backups I should start the iMac by holding down the option key. Your comment that " the Time Machine backup volume shows up as a bootable partition if you hold down the option key while starting up, and selecting it boots you into the backed-up recovery partition" is what I really don't understand. So, back to the original query: Is there any way I can put a Recovery HD partition on my hard drive from the Recovery HD on my thumb drive? ![]() So if Recovery HD was backed up, I can see no way of accessing it. As far as I can see, I made all the appropriate choices when restoring my hard drive back in October. There were no other options I could find and no other way to access Time Machine.Įdit: I just tried the 'option' option which did take me to TM's hard drive. ![]() However, the only thing that didn't get recovered was the HD Recovery partition.Īs described earlier, I had to start up using HD Recovery from the thumb drive to access Time Machine and then restored everything from the last backup. If I understand your comments correctly (which I strongly suspect I haven't), I shouldn't have been able to restore/recover my system (10.7.5) and everything else from Time Machine (sans Recovery HD) the way I did. When my original hard drive crapped out, it was replaced with an identical, formatted model (from Apple) – no system installed. I've verified this by restoring with my modem unplugged. To preserve the original installer, you need to zip it or put it on an external disk or inside a disk image file which you leave unmounted to keep Spotlight from seeing it.)Īlternatively, a full-disk restore from Time Machine does not require any internet connection at all. (It's actually harder to keep Software Update from updating you saved installer. Just leave the installer in a location where Spotlight can find it, and run Software Update. Alternatively, Software Update will happily upgrade your saved installer to be an installer with all the latest updates included. If so, it will require a connection, but only for a tiny amount of data.) Reinstalling will give you a new Recovery HD.Īny software updates that became available after the OS version your installer installs will need to re-downloaded, which might take significant bandwidth. The installer may want to check with Apple to see that you're licensed. (I don't recall if you need an internet connection. If you backed up your installer, you can re-install from it without broadband. You will still need a broadband internet connection to re-install from it. However you get to the recovery partition, it is not an installer. (That is, the Time Machine backup volume shows up as a bootable partition if you hold down the option key while starting up, and selecting it boots you into the backed-up recovery partition.) The backup is usable directly from the Time Machine backup. Since 10.7.2, Time Machine backs up the recovery partition. RDA = Recovery Disk Assistant, a utility that will let you copy a recovery partition (Recovery HD) from one disk to another. It just would have been nice to have it on the hard drive too. Is there some way of reinstalling Recovery HD so that it can indeed be accessed via ⌘-R?Īt least the RDA = Recovery HD is safely stored on the thumb drive – and works as nicely as though it were ensconced on a hard drive partition. I was able to use my Recovery Disk Assistant thumb drive to gain access to Recovery HD (since that's all the RDA contains and actually shows up as the drive's name). Should I have installed that (on the drive vs disk?) instead of my disk (first)? When I restored my disk contents via TM, there was another option available, namely to install the original Mac OS X 10.7.2 (which the iMac shipped with originally). I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that restoring my OS from TM would also include the (invisible) Recovery HD, since that was part of my original installation and ostensibly would have been backed up as part of my disk. The only thing that happened was that my iMac tried to go to "Internet Recovery". Having successfully restored my OS and files to a new hard drive from Time Machine backup, I just had occasion to try to access Recovery HD via ⌘-R. ![]()
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