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Find my Mac - Recovery partition required

Hi,


I tried to set up Find my Mac function on my mid2009 MBP, but on the preference pane of iCloud the checkbox is grey and says "Recovery partition required."

I have a recovery partition, and it is bootable. The OS is 10.7.2, latest update.


macbookpro:~ tevelee$ diskutil list disk0

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 399.5 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_HFS Backup 99.1 GB disk0s3

4: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s4


How can I enable Find my Mac or let iCloud see my recovery partition?


Thanks

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 8:15 AM

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Oct 16, 2011 10:01 AM in response to Tevelee

Ok i found out why it didn't see the drive:

I deleted the "Backup" partition using Disk utility and with that my Recovery partition is gone too. I don't know why but deleted that too. I assume the two somehow connected.

Now i have to create a new partition and make bootable. I found this tutorial but apple recently released a RecoveryHDUpdate and i want to work with that.

So the problem is that i cannot to copy the content from the recoveryHDupdate disk image to a newly created partition.

Thanks

Find my Mac - Recovery partition required

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