Can you re-install OS X Mountain Lion from the recovery Drive when File Vauly 2 is turned on?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
You shouldn't have any problem. With FileVault turned on, Recovery HD won't appear when you press Option key, but you can access to it pressing Command and R keys while your Mac is starting
Not in Disk Utility. You would have to decrypt the volume first, or else use a shell command.
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How do you decrypt?
You can not use the recovery drive itself to reinstall OS X, but you can reinstall OS X without de-encrypting the drive.
WARNING: following these steps will remove all data from your harddrive. This process will in all likelyness not be reversible. Use at your own risk.
1. Prepare a recovery USB stick [1].
2. Boot from this stick
3. Start Disk Utility
4. Select the hard drive
5. Select the Partition tab
6. Change Volume Scheme to 1 Partition
7. Enter Macintosh HD in the name field
8. Click Apply
Your hard drive is now empty, you can use the installer on the same USB stick to re-install a clean OS X on your machine.
Can you erase the hard drive in Recovery Mode with File Vault turned on?
