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Lion Boot Camp Windows Migration Assistant Recovery

"Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation"

The disk has a non-standard Boot Camp partition setup, where further partitioning was performed after running Boot Camp Assistant, or the configuration that Boot Camp Assistant created was manually modified


Recovery HD is not needed to install and run OS X Lion


You won't have the on-disk utilities for disk repair


If you use Boot Camp, you can run Boot Camp Assistant after installing OS X Lion to create a new Boot Camp partition, then restore the data from the backup you made of your previous Boot Camp partition.


You can also use the OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store to create an external bootable drive, complete with a Recovery HD partition. See this article for more details. (404 on lnk). Create Lion Recovery Drive


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4649


OS X Lion: About Windows Migration Assistant

  • Last Modified: July 20, 2011
  • Article: HT4796

Summary

With OS X Lion, you can migrate all of the information from your old Windows PC to your new Mac. Lion automatically transfers your contacts, calendars, and email accounts and puts them in the appropriate applications.


To migrate information from a PC to your Mac

Download to the Windows PC the Windows Migration Assistant installer from here. (broken link)


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4796

About Lion Recovery

What to do if the installer warns that no Recovery HD can be created

Some disk partition configurations may result in the OS X Lion installer reporting that it could not create a Recovery HD. In these situations, even if you are permitted to continue the install, you should quit the install and create an external, bootable OS X Lion hard drive with a Recovery HD, first. You will be able to return to the upgrade to OS X Lion on your computer's boot drive after creating the external Recovery HD.


Your storage device must have at least 13 GB available (after formatting) to install Lion and an Internet Restore partition.


Restart your Mac and hold down the Command key and the R key (Command-R), and keep holding them until the Apple icon appears, indicating that your Mac is starting up.


After the Recovery HD is finished starting up, you should see a desktop with a Mac OS X menu bar and a "Mac OS X Utilities" application window.


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718


(I would love to see Apple - Support - with a category "Knowledge Base Articles" and from there "Newly added and updated" sub-category, especially with so many new articles being added and updatec)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 8:11 AM

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