Lion Recovery Disk Assistant Error On Launch

You can still get that file by re-downloading the OS X Lion Application from the App Store. Here's how....

1. Use the machine OS X Lion is installed on.
2. Open App Store. Sign in.
3. Press and hold your OPTION key; then click on Purchases at the top of the App Store screen.
4. Under your purchase, look to the right of 'OS X Lion'. If Step 3 worked, the button on the right should say Install let you click it.
5. Click Install. Let the download finish.
6. When you see the window open for installing the download DON'T INSTALL. Open FINDER, navigate to Applications and you should see the OS X Lion Installation App.
7. Right click on the OS X Lion Installation App and select Show Package Contents.
8. Navigate to the SharedSupport folder. You should see a filename of InstallESD.dmg.
9. Copy the InstallESD.dmg to your desktop
10. Close the window that's waiting for you to install OS X Lion. It's not needed anymore.
11. Launch Disk Utility and click the Burn button
12. Select the InstallESD.dmg file from your desktop as the image to burn. Insert a blank DVD and wait for the the image to be burned.

What if i again restore after clean install my macbook with my time machine backup. Will it effect the basic motive of reinstallation???

I'm not sure I understand the question, sayimz. Are you asking will you have the Recovery HD if you restore Lion from a Time Machine backup?

i mean to say will i get the recovery HD built in, just like they have in pre installed lion macs??

My apologies, I'm dense this morning. If one installs Lion using a re-download from the App Store, DVD or USB thumb drive, one will have both the Lion OS and its Recovery HD. If one erases/reformats their hard drive and restores Lion from a Time Machine backup, the Recovery HD may not be there. I still may not be understanding your question.

Im sorry man> im kynda in a frustated situation. May be i dont get to what to be done to fix this issue. I want to create a lion recovery usb with recovery assistant but i get this message which goes sumthin like this...The Recovery HD on this computer is damaged or not present. Recovery Disk Assistant requires a functioning Lion Recovery HD to create an external Lion Recovery. What steps shall i take to fix this?? please walk me through..

I even got the recovery dvd created that time when i downloaded lion from app store..thanks

Ah ok.... just reinstall Lion on top of itself. It will recreate the Recovery HD.

Do a backup before the next paragraph just to be on the safe side.

Since you have a Lion install DVD, just boot from that by inserting the DVD, restart and press C when you hear the startup chime. The system will boot from the DVD. Then all you do is run the install again. No harm will come to your data or installed apps. After the reinstall is completed, you can check to see if you are able to get into the Recovery HD by restarting and pressing COMMAND - R when you hear the startup chime. If you boot into the Recovery HD, you're good to go with rerunning the Lion Recovery HD Assistant to create your USB thumb drive. If you can't, I'm not sure what you can do other than wiping your drive and starting over. OR find a friend with Lion and create your USB thumb drive that way.

thanks man it seems helpful> yet i have reinstalled lion but using that install mac os lion setup direct from the mounted image of lion installation dvd not as you told. Will see in the morning cuz its midnight over here. I shall roll up now>>will let ya know about it>>thanks a tons.

If you have the InstallESD.dmg file, just launch it. It's the installer so you can reinstall Lion while you're in Lion. I've done that too and was able to recreate my Recovery HD.

Man it aint workin..i mean it wont boot on pressing command R and i suppose that didnt created my Recovery HD. I might try the clean install by formatting my HD and again do the lion installation from the scratch. Thats the only option left...I will let ya know later. Thanks

Hallaluuuuuuyaah it worked man. Thanks for ya help..

I am trying this now . . . am signed into the App Store on my mini, hold option and click on purchases, and it just shows me apps, but not lion, and the buttons either say "installed" and are greyed out, or "update". What can I do? I do not have the Recovery HD partition and need to create some kind of back up media. Computer came with Lion already installed, so I don't have a DVD . . . this is terrible.

Hello keg55!

This is not entirely true. I can boot from the recovery partition. No issue. But still the recovery assistant refuses to create a recovery partition from that. It still comes with the message that my recovery partition is damaged.

How can this be solved?

Regards

I was able to make the recovery drive, but only by using disk utility. First set the debug flag so you can see the debug menu in disk utilities ... You can find how to do that in one of the threads that discusses this problem. Once you have that you can go to the debug menu and choose show all partitions. My recovery partition then showed up. I was then able to use restore in disk utilities to copy that partition to my thumb drive. I successfully booted from the thumb drive into the recovery console after that. Note that you can mount the recovery partition in disk utilities but to do the restore it cannot be mounted.