How do I restore a missing recovery partition in Mountain Lion so I can activate Find My Mac?

By installing or reinstalling OSX (Mountain Lion, Lion, etc)

Has anyone tried this scripted solution?

http://www.brunerd.com/blog/2012/03/21/update-create-lion-recoveryhd-partition-q uickly-without-reinstalling/

I am a litte worried that an install would break something...

That's for Lion and it's unsupported, reinstalling is the simplest method. Back up first.

It says "Update: Script will work on 10.8 without modification" way down at the end of the post.

And you have tried this to confirm that it works?

No, I haven't. I was asking if anyone was "brave enough".

I did the install-over and it worked more or less. I did have some minor heart attacks in the process when time machine would not mount (I have two Macs and it seems while one is doing a restore the other can't backup) but in the end everything looks ok so far.

Read the terms of use for the site, don't suggest anything unless you have tested it and can confirm that it works

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That's a neat script. Granted reinstalling should not break applications and other features in the current installation so it is still the recommended choice, but if you have a system backed up and would like to give that script a try, then go ahead. With a Time Machine backup you can more easily play with various approaches without fear that you will lose your data. Even though reinstalling OS X has been tested to work by folks, it is not guaranteed and in some (albeit rare cases) has broken people's application installations or exacerbated relatively hidden problems that resulted in subsequent crashes and other issues. In essence, anything's possible when you modify the system, so just be sure you have a full and restorable backup, and you should be good to go.

Kessler, thx for your insight. That helped me.

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Csound: I read the terms. Section 3 of the submissions rules says "Post constructive […] questions. Unless otherwise noted, your Submission should […] be a technical support question […]."

I don't see where I went wrong. Maybe you could get off my back, please. Willya?

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Gin Tonyx wrote:

Kessler, thx for your insight. That helped me.

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Csound: I read the terms. Section 3 of the submissions rules says "Post constructive […] questions. Unless otherwise noted, your Submission should […] be a technical support question […]."

I don't see where I went wrong. Maybe you could get off my back, please. Willya?

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You should have kept reading until item 5

5. Test your answer. When possible, make sure your Submission works on your own computer before you post it.