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I am running the newest Lion and I need to repair my hard drive by booting into recovery option+r at boot. I deleted the partition I believe so any way i can get it back? Just so you know I can't partition my hard drive for boot camp because i cant repair my HD
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
How did you delete the Recovery disk partition? You may need to reinstall Lion.
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Charlie's Hard Drive 159.7 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: *319.4 GB disk2
Yup you certainly did delete your recovery partition.
Ok go ahead with the Comman+r keys and see if you can get to the Lion Internet Recovery feature.
no it just to longer to get to the login screen then made rapid error noises for an invalid command
Sorry I am out of ideas.
Supposedly the Command+r keys will take you directly to the Lion internet recovery servers if there is no recovery partition on your drive. But for you it isn't working. I can't check it because I do have a recovery HD partition on my drive.
Good Luck again sorry I couldn't help.
I have one more idea.
If you know someone that has a Macbook Pro similar to yours and they are running Lion and ndo have the recovery partition on there drive you could make a BOOT USB key that has the recovery HD on it on there computer. Then you should be able to boot to that USB stick and reinstall Lion. which will recreate the recover partition on you drive.
But you may need to delete those extra partitions you have on your internal drive first.
ok well if anybody else can help that would be great but it looks like im gonna have to go to apple
I don't have any extra partitions on my hard drive and I cant make any even with disk utility and I have been trying to find someone but Im going to the apple astore tomorrow to see if they would have that disk
Good luck, hope you get this sorted out.
Go to apple's website, search and downloand the disc recovery assistant v1.0.
Once installed open the assistant and create a new recovery disc on a clean USB thumb drive (minimum 1GB required with no other files on it).
Back up everything you want to keep on your HD.
Now reformat your entire HD...
Then start from scratch using the bootable USB recovey disc you just created.
The Disc Recovery Assistant is what you need I think.
jimicam wrote:
Go to apple's website, search and downloand the disc recovery assistant v1.0.
Once installed open the assistant and create a new recovery disc on a clean USB thumb drive (minimum 1GB required with no other files on it).
Back up everything you want to keep on your HD.
Now reformat your entire HD...
Then start from scratch using the bootable USB recovey disc you just created.
The Disc Recovery Assistant is what you need I think.
That's great except the OP Deleted his HDD Recovery HD partition. The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant only works if you have a Recovery HD partition on your drive. It needs that partition to create the Recovery HD thumb drive. It uses the files on that partition to create the thumb drive.
I deleted my Recovery partition Lion and I need it to repair my hard drive.
