HT201316: OS X: "Some features of Mac OS X are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation

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dlo3854
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Q: Mountain lion will not install and sends me to support/no-recovery

I can't load Mountain Lion since it doesn't support recovery  any way around this glitch

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 10:34 PM

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Q: Mountain lion will not install and sends me to support/no-recovery

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jul 26, 2012 9:49 AM in response to dlo3854
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    Jul 26, 2012 9:49 AM in response to dlo3854

    Does the article apply to your setup?

  • by dlo3854,

    dlo3854 dlo3854 Jul 26, 2012 5:29 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jul 26, 2012 5:29 PM in response to Linc Davis

    I've read that support discussion but is there a simpler way of getting Mountain Lion to work.  My past few operating systems have been purchased as Apps, I have no way of going all the way back to Snow Leopard.  Please advise, or this is just a waste of $20

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jul 26, 2012 6:25 PM in response to dlo3854
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    Jul 26, 2012 6:25 PM in response to dlo3854

    If the terms of the article apply to you, then your question has been answered.

  • by clee85,

    clee85 clee85 Jul 31, 2012 5:31 PM in response to dlo3854
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    Jul 31, 2012 5:31 PM in response to dlo3854

    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464

     

    i updated lion recovery and reinstalled mountain lion. worked for me.

  • by kbswbc,

    kbswbc kbswbc Aug 27, 2012 7:17 PM in response to dlo3854
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    Aug 27, 2012 7:17 PM in response to dlo3854

    I tried and failed for several hours to install Mountain Lion, and was repeatedly getting the "Recovery System" cannot be created error.  I tried all the tricks: resizing the drive partition, booting from an external boot drive, all to no avail.  After reading other users struggling with the same issue, I had determined it to be a boot camp drive error.  However, I didn't want to have to erase and begin anew when I came upon a possible solution.  I had long ago renamed my boot camp drive with a "." (".windows" for me) in order to avoid having the partition show up on my desktop.  So, I boot into windows and renamed the c: drive without the "." ("windows"), and reboot into os x.  The install then went off without a hitch.  I hope this will be helpful for others struggling with this issue that may have renamed their boot camp drives in a similar manner.

  • by matern,

    matern matern Sep 2, 2012 1:24 PM in response to dlo3854
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    Sep 2, 2012 1:24 PM in response to dlo3854

    Hi,

    I had the same problem, unable to install Mountain Lion due to recovery problem. After a long investigation I found out that my Recovery HD partition was only 613.6MB and it should appearently be 650MB !

     

    --- BEFORE ---

    $ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *120.0 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            119.1 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             613.6 MB   disk0s3

     

     

    What I did to solve this was to delete the Recovery HD partition using the following steps:

    * In terminal window write the following: defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

    * Go to Disk Utility where you now should have debug menu. Select the option to show all paritions.

    * Delete your Recovery HD partition.

    * Make sure that you have at least 650MB free on your OSX drive. If not decrease the size of your OSX partition.

    * Install Mountain Lion and it will then automatically create a new Recovery HD partition.

     

    --- AFTER ---

    $ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *120.0 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            118.9 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

     

     

    I hope this can be helpful to someone.