does this totally suck or what? I can't believe Apple would do this..
it's going to take days just to upgrade to Lion..
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Did you have a question? Or were you expecting mind-readers here?
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Ok, here's my question, why does my Lion Installer not allow me to go ahead and install without creating a recovery partition? I created an external bootable drive with the recovery partion. Why do i have to erase my disk and start over? Oh my other questions are:
"are there other people that find this to be a lousy customer experience?"
How are you trying to install it? I have had no problem on my Macs. It's a pretty simple procedure and works fine. Download and install. I don't understand what you are saying about the external drive.
Pete
Lion always creates the hidden recovery partition. Personally, I wish it wouldn't either. Or at least give you the option. I have zero use for it since I always create bootable backups with SuperDuper!. For me, it's just the wasted time to do the backup after installing Lion, reformat/partition the drive so I can eliminate the recovery partition, and then restore the backup.
Other than that, I don't understand why it would take "days". What do you believe is taking so long?
I paid $29.99 to download the Lion Installer App. I ran the installer and it said that "cannot install because a recovery partition could not be created" and a "go to apple.com/support/no-recovery for more info"
That is where I read this article, which is not really about my particular case, it is about a different message "
Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation"
Not really the same thing.. but OK, the cause is the same? The article alludes that it's because I have a bootcamp partition, and the recovery disk doesnt like it? Anyway you have to read down in the article and you get to:
"What will happen if I continue to install?" - BUT the installer won't let me continue to install..!?
And then you read down to:
"What can I do ensure I get all OS X Lion features?"
This is where the article says I need to create a full back up (hours) and then erase my drive, and then re-install Snow-Leopard (hours) , then re-download the Lion OS installer (30 minutes) then re-install Lion (hours) ... It never mentions that at some point you need to restore your original system from the back up (hours), although it mentions that if you did use bootcamp, you need to restore a back up of that (hours). Add up the hours ... = days...
All I really wanted to do was to use iCloud.. what a hassle..
"cannot install because a recovery partition could not be created"
Sounds like your hard drive is pretty full, or heavily fragmented. Either way, it can't grab a large enough block of space at the end of the drive to create the recovery partition. Would that be a correct statement?
The article alludes that it's because I have a bootcamp partition, and the recovery disk doesnt like it?
Kurt is right, there is no room at the bottom of the bootcamp partition or there is something wrong with your partition map, you installed or have a older version of windows or a different drive setup with multiple partitions and thus Lion can't be installed.
You can choose to remove your bootcamp and other partitions, then erase free space with zeros, then try the Lion installer again.
However if the windows you use isn't Win 7 then reinstalling bootcamp isnt' going to work again later.
does this totally suck or what? I can't believe Apple would do this..