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Aug 9, 2011 8:59 PM in response to jconnollyby leroydouglas,Correct. If you are inclined you can download it again through the appstore
See "Purchased" along the top of the appstore and hold the option key before you click.
The installed will turn to insatll in your list of purchases. Download from there. You don't install it, but at that time find the pkg in your app folder.
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Aug 9, 2011 8:59 PM in response to jconnollyby keg55,You can still get that file by re-downloading the OS X Lion Application from the App Store. Here's how....
- Use the machine OS X Lion is installed on.
- Open App Store. Sign in.
- Press and hold your OPTION key; then click on Purchases at the top of the App Store screen.
- 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.
- Click Install. Let the download finish.
- 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.
- Right click on the OS X Lion Installation App and select Show Package Contents.
- Navigate to the SharedSupport folder. You should see a filename of InstallESD.dmg.
- Copy the InstallESD.dmg to your desktop
- Close the window that's waiting for you to install OS X Lion. It's not needed anymore.
- Launch Disk Utility and click the Burn button
- 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.
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Aug 20, 2011 11:36 AM in response to keg55by sayimz,What if i again restore after clean install my macbook with my time machine backup. Will it effect the basic motive of reinstallation???
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Aug 20, 2011 11:45 AM in response to sayimzby keg55,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?
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Aug 20, 2011 11:50 AM in response to keg55by sayimz,i mean to say will i get the recovery HD built in, just like they have in pre installed lion macs??
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Aug 20, 2011 11:54 AM in response to sayimzby keg55,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.
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Aug 20, 2011 12:04 PM in response to keg55by sayimz,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..
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Aug 20, 2011 12:06 PM in response to sayimzby sayimz,I even got the recovery dvd created that time when i downloaded lion from app store..thanks
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Aug 20, 2011 12:33 PM in response to sayimzby keg55,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.
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Aug 20, 2011 12:40 PM in response to keg55by sayimz,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.
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Aug 20, 2011 12:48 PM in response to sayimzby keg55,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.
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Aug 20, 2011 4:54 PM in response to keg55by sayimz,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
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Aug 20, 2011 8:41 PM in response to keg55by sayimz,Hallaluuuuuuyaah it worked man. Thanks for ya help..
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Dec 28, 2011 8:09 PM in response to leroydouglasby ashtangiman,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.
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Jan 30, 2012 5:02 AM in response to keg55by mkihr,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