Booting To Recovery Goes To Internet Recovery

erugalatha wrote:

I just tried booting to the other drive and repairing the disk1 drive but I got a different error: "unable to unmount disk" while it was repairing in disk utility.

Head to your System Preferences > Spotlight preferences and ignore disk1, reboot to disk0.

When a disk can't unmount, it usually means something else is accessing the drive, so it's likely your Spotlight indexing it in the background (aka mdnworker process)

If you want to get violent about it, open up Terminal and type 😁

diskutil unmount force disk1

Then head back to Disk Utiltiy.

When I try to connect to my wifi when doing the internet recovery option it doesn't accept the wifi password even though I am entering it correctly.

You shouldn't need to bother with Internet Recovery presently unless you have to install OS X fresh.

Actually you might have to use

sudo diskutil unmount force disk1

in a Admin account if their are root processes accessing the drive.

Here are instructions for rebuilding the recovery HD.

http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lio n/

I will approfit of your help seeing now, thanks to you, why I don't have anymore HD recovery on my MacIntosh HD after I "restored" my internal HD with superduper backup.

IError was mine because I had previously erased accidentally some system files in Library and had to recover from my clone.

see the answer below with disk util list command in Terminal :

I had some other problematic messages from the last Time Machine save see below:

Maybe it came from the same restore action.

So I want to reinstall the system in order to have a real complete OSX.9 as before.

What would be the best way? (please note that I am not a native english speaker)

• Internet recovery? = I don't remember how I do that but am sure I'll find the how on the Apple support My internet connection is OK
• Dowloading OSX Mavericks installation dmg from the MacApp store and reinstall it from an external drive?

The first one should not erase my personal files and other third applications and preferences but I gather that the second one should erase all my files .

As back up I have:

• One Time Machine back up on an external drive WD
• One bootable external disk La CIe with my last superduper clone of my HD (of course without HD recovery now I unfortunately know)
• Important files on Dropbox but I fear that if I reinstall it will break the link to my dropbox

Are they enough as backups of my user preferences files etc.. (I am the only user)?

Should I do a repair of the HD (My only internal one now) before?

Thanks for your answer. I read your tips for backing up and I agree completely. I have various backups every where. 😀

Catherine

ds store wrote:

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To return your RecoveryHD partition, you will have to erase one of the drives via Internet Recovery and reinstall OS X version it gives you (upgrade OS X if need be), that will return the correct RecoveryHD and then you use Superdupes to clone just the MacintoshHD parittion from the other drive.

Once you have both up and running fine, then you use Carbon Copy Cloner instead as it will copy the RecoveryHD in the same process of cloning and give you the option to restore it to a new drive.

Here is my experience.

I used CCC 3.4.7 (last free) to clone my Mavericks HDD to a new SSHD. It failed to recreate a Recovery HD in the SSHD.

I swapped drives and installed the SSHD without the Recovery HD into my Mac. After further customizations, and a few days later, I cloned my (now) internal SSHD (without a Recovery HD) back to the original HDD. So now I had two bootable installations without any Recovery HD.

All I had to do to get a Recovery HD back on each drive was to reinstall Mavericks. I did this by booting into each drive in turn, copying into /Applications a saved copy of the Mavericks Installer, (I had saved the original downloaded file "Install OS X Mavericks.dmg" elsewhere earlier) and running this installer.

The reinstallation created a Recovery HD at the root of each drive and I can now boot into it in Recovery Mode.

CathyLapin wrote:

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What would be the best way? (please note that I am not a native english speaker)

• Internet recovery? = I don't remember how I do that but am sure I'll find the how on the Apple support My internet connection is OK
• Dowloading OSX Mavericks installation dmg from the MacApp store and reinstall it from an external drive?

The first one should not erase my personal files and other third applications and preferences but I gather that the second one should erase all my files .

You can download the installer from the App store. Don't run it. Cancel the installation after it is downloaded. Copy the downloaded "Install OS X Mavericks.dmg" file elsewhere.

After the copy has finished, boot from your INTERNAL drive (the one which which does not have the Recovery HD).

Run the "Install OS X Mavericks.dmg" from the booted drive's /Applications folder. It will take about 15-20 minutes but it will reinstall your OS Mavericks, correcting errors and also reinstall a Recovery HD on your internal hard drive. This procedure will not affect any of your settings or data and is safe. Obviously backup before you start this procedure.

After it is complete, run Software Update and then repair permissions.

You can also of course do the same via Internet Recovery, by pressing Command+Option+R upon starting up. But then you will be unable to save a copy of the "Install OS X Mavericks.dmg" file to use as a reinstaller later, or on another drive, if you wanted to. You would have to redownload the installer.

Thanks to your and DS store. It help me a lot

Catherine

Just to update this discussion.

I was looking at Carbon Copy Cloner free version 3.4.7 installed on my system.

It has the capability of resizing a hard drive to create a new 650MB Recovery HD partition for the Recovery Disk, and then cloning a Recovery HD from your booted hard drive to the Recovery partition. That works only of you have booted from a partition with an existing Recovery HD in place on that drive.

If you have no access to this then the best way to create this would be to reinstall OS X on top of your existing booted drive.

Maybe CC was a better choice thant Superduper, butI am not ready to buy another software.

Everything got well in doing what you suggest downloading the dmg installation of Mavericks and reinstalling it on top of my internal HD . For safety I kept a copy in my documents before the install and one on the backup on Superduper. (tired of repairing to day 😀 because my Mac Office 2011 did some hijinks too)

One learns lessons from one's mistakes.