Lost Recovery HD

I did it, but there is no recovery hd anyway.

have you an error now ?

It works now! Thank you vey much jhonny1717

you are welcome

Thanks so much Jhonny!

give me a "correct answer" if you want, i could have points on this website 🙂

Works like a charm, excellent work jhonny1717!

Absolute hero, thanks so much

I had the same problem with my Macbook Pro that cannot find the recovery partition. And I found that I can't reinstall Lion by holding down option key or holding down command + R to launch the recovery partition still it can't be found the partition. But I found is to download the OS X Lion in the Mac App Store (http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12&ls=1) then follow the directions. After your done your computer will have a working recovery partition and you wouldn't loose your files, Applicaltion, etc.

The late 2013 rMBP uses a custom 10.9.1 OS and tips for building a bootable USB OS install stick that support earlier machines don't work. I found a great tip for creating the bootable USB stick that did work, but when you boot and wipe the internal HD, it also removes the recovery partition.

Instead of creating a bootable USB stick, if you boot while holding COMMAND+R while on a wifi or ethernet network, you can use Internet Recovery to reinstall Mavericks to a 2013 rMBP and this process will create the recovery partition. Here's a link to the Apple Support page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

CCC Carbon Copy Cloner has a utility called "Disk Center" that is included with CCC that will create a Recovery Partition for you. I understand that CCC is not free, but it does have a free 30 day trial.

The "Disk Center" in CCC Carbon Copy Cloner is not obvious or easy to find, unless you know where to look for it (in the Window menu pulldown)... it's easy to miss. Once you find it in the CCC menu system, it is a quick (<5min) turnkey way to create a Recovery HD Partition on any disk, internal or external.

I thought I should share this, since I burned several hours of pain-staking research and experimentation in search of how to create/re-create a "Recovery HD" Partition for my MacBook Retina Mavericks laptop. My journey was varietal, including:

1. Successfully using a manual set of instructions with Terminal to execute a multi-step approach that worked ( http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install -drive.html )
2. As well as a utility from musings.slivertooth.us that worked for me as advertised. Only problem is that while I appreciate and respect the great utility that guy created, my risk-averse nature prevents me from using a non-commercial utility to muck with the low-level details of my boot drive. Great job, but I prefer CCC since it's backed by a commercial SW company. Here's his great uility, as referenced in Apple discussion threads like this one: ( http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lio n/ )
3. Therefore, I was relieved to discover that CCC has a utility specifically designed to do this for me.

FYI: How did I find myself in this position? I lost my Recovery HD partition because I used Super Duper to Clone my HD/SSD, and subsequently restored my MacBook at one point. Super Duper has worked awesomely well for me for several years. It clones HDs/SSDs without a glitch, and makes them bootable automatically. The only gap or lack of function I have discovered is that "Super Duper" does not Clone the "Recovery HD" Partition. CCC Carbon Copy Cloner does. So, while I like Super Duper, I'm switching to CCC Carbon Copy Cloner for my backups from now on.

Disclaimer: I don't work for CCC. I'm just an I/T Professional that needed to figure out how to create/re-create a Recovery HD Partition...