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

18 replies

babowa

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Apr 2, 2013 7:57 AM in response to SF7Pakistan

All new Macs come with recovery built into the OS:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

The new ones may not have a separate partition, but following the instructions in above article, you can access it easily.

Jul 19, 2016 11:53 AM in response to mende1

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Csound1

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60,063 points

Jul 20, 2016 12:09 PM in response to burke.minsley

I just bought a 2012 iMac, and it does have a Recovery Partition, accessed by holding Command and R keys at boot

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