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no recovery partition on new iMac

My new (late 2012) iMac does not appear to have a recovery partition- is this how new iMacs are built?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 15, 2013 8:45 AM

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Posted on Jan 15, 2013 8:48 AM

All Macs come with Recovery HD installed. To check if you have it, the best way is to press Command and R keys while your Mac is starting, so if your Mac doesn't connect to the Internet to access to Recovery, you have Recovery HD.


Another way to check if you have Recovery HD is to open Terminal and type:


diskutil list


Then, under that command, you will see all partitions of the hard disk, so you should see Recovery HD at the bottom. If it doesn't show up, you don't have Recovery HD

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no recovery partition on new iMac

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