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Mac Mini M1 Recovery Partition accidently deleted.

Sooo I was messing around with an external usb drive and thought I had a partition on it that looked like I had unused free space I could reclaim.

Foolish me though was actually looking at the wrong hdd and removed what I now know was the recovery partition of my internal drive (See attached image, there used to be 3x partitions on this drive.).

I have looked around the web and can't find how to revert that change.

Do I resize my data partition and reclaim that space, somehow downloading the recovery image and "reinstalling" the recovery tools onto the recreated drive or am I now stuck having to create an external usb recovery image anytime a new OS comes out?

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Oct 8, 2021 8:31 PM

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den.thed

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Posted on Oct 9, 2021 7:21 AM

If you do have have a backup? Use Time Machine or Manually move your user files to an external drive.

Erase and re-format the entire Internal Drive as per > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212030

Reinstall the macOS on the internal drive as per > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

Migrate from Time Machine or Manually copy your user files back from the external drive.

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