I received my new iMac just over 1 week ago.
I've been reading that there is supposed to be a Recovery partition shown when you hold down Option key. But when I do this there is only the Macintosh HD shown?
Is there no recovery partition now on the new iMac's or is there something not right with my OS?
Thanks in advance 🙂
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iPad (3rd Gen) 32GB iPhone 5 32GB
mende1 wrote:
In that case, everything is correct. You have a Recovery HD that starts when you press Command and R keys while your Mac is starting, and you can use Internet Recovery when you press Command, Option and R keys while your Mac is starting. Don't worry about it and enjoy the iMac
Thanks very much for confirming everything is correct 🙂
Really appreciated the help I've got off everyone.
You are welcome
Everything is as it should be. Now you can forget about it in the knowlege that you should be able to successfully use the Recovery HD should distaster strike 😉.
Paul_31 wrote:
Everything is as it should be. Now you can forget about it in the knowlege that you should be able to successfully use the Recovery HD should distaster strike 😉.
That's really nice to know 🙂
That is what the release notes say for fusion drives. I think it is your recovery parition and not internet recovery when you use Command+R (the four options you mentioned come from the recovery partition). The reason that it won't bring up a boot menu for external drives is the fusion drive uses a modified version of mountain lion (I think that was also stated in the notes). Booting your system from a clone and accessing your fusion drive could screw it all up.
What I'm curious about is this.....if you make a new clone (assuming CCC or SD work) can you get access to it via booting with just the option key. The fusion drive is not a caching SSD system. A clone must read both physical drives as a single volume and clone it as a single volume. I would be afraid to try this myself until I heard from the CCC or SD programmers.
I downloaded CCC a couple of days ago to try out, as I got told on a different post a while back that it's beneficial to have Time Machine backups as well as a clone.
I cloned my system yesterday to an external hard drive.
If you like I could connect this external hard drive up, press the Option key and see from there what shows up?
You can try that, but I'm completely sure that it will show up if you created that clone with your new iMac
I wouldnt go to the point where it would try to restore off of the clone (if there's a chance of it not working correctly due to the Fusion Drive)
I'll give it a try now and I'll update shortly.
ssls6 wrote:
What I'm curious about is this.....if you make a new clone (assuming CCC or SD work) can you get access to it via booting with just the option key. The fusion drive is not a caching SSD system. A clone must read both physical drives as a single volume and clone it as a single volume. I would be afraid to try this myself until I heard from the CCC or SD programmers.
I have just rebooted and pressed to option key. I had two drives shown, one been Mackintosh HD and the other was my external hard drive containing the clone. I then pressed the arrow icon below the external hard drive and it then proceeded to boot into the desktop.
So everything is correct, again
I'm excited to hear how it goes. Was the external drive usb3? FW800 with a thunderbolt adapter? or a true thunderbolt drive?
All is right in the world 🙂 I just ordered a new 27" with fusion drive so threads like these catch my attention. I usually have two clones (one not at home) and a TM backup (sometimes two TM backups with one to a NAS drive).
ssls6 wrote:
I'm excited to hear how it goes. Was the external drive usb3? FW800 with a thunderbolt adapter? or a true thunderbolt drive?
The drive I used was a Icy Dock enclosure/caddy which has a 3.5 inch Samsung 1TB hard drive inside it.
This is maybe a daft question.
But with the clone, yes I can boot off of it and get me to the desktop, basically so that I have my system up and running again in no time at all. But once I've booted from the external hard drive/clone and to my desktop, how do I then use the clone to get my Macintosh HD up and running again from off of the clone?
I realise I can use the Time Machine backups I would have took, but I'm just curious to know how I would do it with just the clone?
No recovery device/partition shown
