Why I can't access recovery mode?

None of what Linc posted was done using Recovery.

All he did was have the OP list the drives connected to the Mac, which indicated there wasn't a Recovery partition on the Startup drive.

If you can startup the Mac, then you can download an installer from the purchased tab of the App Store.

How did you install? If you cloned the drive using SuperDuper! it won't recreate the Recovery partition.

It may have not been installed. Do you remember getting any warnings?

If you reinstall, it will install the Recovery HD if possible. You will have to download the installer from the App Store, then run it to install. That's the only way I know of to get it installed if it wasn't during initial install.

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

{ diskutil list; echo; diskutil cs list; } | open -f -a TextEdit

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.

Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).

A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.

As Barney said, "If you reinstall, it will install the Recovery HD if possible. You will have to download the installer from the App Store, then run it to install."

EDIT: Wait! You do have a Recovery partition on disk1. Look at the output you posted. If that's a connected drive it should show up in opt-boot.

There is no Recovery system on the boot drive. You can create one by reinstalling OS X.

you can boot to internet recovery on a mac running 10.7 or later by holding down command+option+R on startup this accesses apple servers directly and has all the functionality of the recovery partition on the HD

I know im a half year behind on this post, but I'm in the same situation. Sometimes your firmware will be acting up, so they tell u to install using an OS X Installer or to use internet recovery, but if internet recovery or other apple start commands dont work then you start your computer, then you definitely have a firmware issue. I've ran into this problem before and had the Genuis bar help me out. I can't remember exactly 100%, but I remember the tech told me he needed to reset the PRAMS or something like that. It was the equivilent of resetting the CMOS for PC as he explained. For the 2009 models and younger, at least for the macbook i brought in, you have to take out 1 ram card, leaving just 1 card in the computer and then press the command+option+P+R keys when the computer starts up. They did this for me and it worked to where I got my apple startup commands back and could then install the OS X on my laptop. They explained that it doesnt work on the newer models and if you want to do this, you have to drop the mac off to them and they will have to get a special code from Apple to reset it factory condition. I'll post you guys when I take this newer model imac to the store and what i find out

Macbook stuck at half progressions when tried to boot as Recovery or OS X Utility

I used to installed Windows 7 via bootcamp but removed it recently.

Now, I need to reinstall OS X Yosemite again since i'm letting go my mac.

I have formatted it before for 2 times using the OS X Utility by holding cmd + r when restarting.

It worked perfectly that time.

But it seems like something went wrong when I tried using the same method again now.

I hold pressed cmd + r exactly after the chime but it will stuck at half progression every time.

I even left it like that for 24 hours and came back with the same result.

Also, Ive tried holding opt button when rebooting and the partitions of macHD and Recovery are there but when i clicked Recovery, same thing happen.

So every time it happens, I will shut down by pressing the power button, and start it in again.

I can log on normally to my computer.

This problem occur only when i tried to use os x utility or recovery only.

Are this because of having windows 7 before?

PLEASE HELP ME!!

Have you found any solution to this problem.. I'm also facing the same problem.. after uninstalling bootcamp i tried to reinstall it .. but nothing worked.. then i tried to go to recovery mode.. again in vein .. -_- 😕 !!

Sooooooo..... just curious, how does one go about doing that if you can't access recovery?