How will erasing the hard-drive allow Mountain Lion to install this restore partition and let me get past this error?
Why do I get the error in the first place.
As far as I can tell, I have a fairly standard Snow Leopard installation. Has everyone who upgraded from Snow Leopard gone through this?
In case it helps, here are specs on the system:
OS X version 10.6.8
MacBook Pro
2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Interesting, when I look at the serial-ATA hardware devices in System Profiler, I see my Hitachi drive with the following information under "Volumes":
Volumes:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable: Yes
BSD Name: disk0s1
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 499.76 GB (499,763,888,128 bytes)
Available: 271.91 GB (271,908,753,408 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /
Boot OSX:
Capacity: 134.2 MB (134,217,728 bytes)
Writable: Yes
BSD Name: disk0s3
What are those BSD names disk0s1 and disk0s3 ????
Could they be part of the problem?
Thanks for any help.