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Whether a Recovery-partition and its all contents will be created automatically..?

Please tell me whether a Recovery-partition and its all contents will be created automatically when I install Mac OS X 10.7 on a fully formatted new hard drive?

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 15, 2012 11:55 AM

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Mar 15, 2012 4:04 PM in response to Gennady Abakyan

Gennady Abakyan wrote:


Please tell me whether a Recovery-partition and its all contents will be created automatically when I install Mac OS X 10.7 on a fully formatted new hard drive?

Usually, but there are some conditions that can prevent it. See "Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation.


So, I get exactly the same (hidden) Recovery-partition on my Mac mini 2011 as from the store if I delete the hard drive current partitions scheme and create a new scheme with an only one (bootable) partition?

You can't do that, at least not from the Mini, while you're runing from it.


You can, however, remove and/or resize partitions in most cases. See #4 in Using Disk Utility.

Whether a Recovery-partition and its all contents will be created automatically..?

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