Find My Mac - Recovery Partition Required

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larryd517 Author

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Find My Mac - Recovery Partition Required

I have Lion, which I assume has a recovery partition, yet when I went into settings/iCloud I get the image above.

How come?

Thanks!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Mar 7, 2012 2:02 AM

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Answer 1

Shootist007

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Mar 7, 2012 2:57 AM in response to larryd517

Well restart the system holding down either the Command+r keys to boot directly into the Recovery HD or hold down the Option/Alt key to get the one time boot menu screen and see it the Recovery HD is on your disk.

If it isn't then you can do software update to have it installed.

Do you haev Windows installed in Boot Camp?

Did you fool around with the partitions in any way?

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larryd517 Author

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Mar 8, 2012 1:51 PM in response to Shootist007

Okay, I don't have one. I think I had to reinstall a while back and must not have set it up properly. How do I get it back? I have backups on Time Machine. Thanks!

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larryd517 Author

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Mar 10, 2012 1:25 PM in response to larryd517

Apparently when I reinstalled a few months ago, I didn't set up the partitions properly, so the recovery console wasn't installed. I reinstalled today and all is good

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SNOPPY

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Sep 23, 2012 5:40 PM in response to larryd517

I am having the same problem. Can someone please show me? I also have backups on Time Machine which I have tried to restore. Please advise. Thanks!

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SNOPPY

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Sep 23, 2012 5:42 PM in response to Shootist007

I am having the same problem. Can someone please show me? I also have backups on Time Machine which I have tried to restore. Please advise. Thanks!

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larryd517 Author

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Sep 24, 2012 1:52 AM in response to SNOPPY

I relied on a friend (expert) to help me with this. If you don't have an expert near by, I'd go to Genius Bar at Apple Store and have them help you. Typically this would be a free repair...although, you might check with them to be sure.

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