Q: Recovery partition on OS X Mavericks!
Hey guys,
So i downloaded the mavericks installer from the app store today, and created a usb bootable pen drive containing mavericks! I did a clean install from the pen drive, but now i'm unable to find a recovery partition on boot! Just my mac hd! I can access recovery features such as "recover through time machine" from the USB pen drive, and ofcourse also install os x mavericks normally from the pen drive...
What have i done wrong? Why is there no longer a recovery partition?
PS: I followed a guide on macrumours on how to created the "Base system dmg" bootable, thats how i was able to make a bootable mavericks usb pen drive!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Posted on Oct 22, 2013 7:47 PM
I tried several times without success. In the end, I connected my MBP to another mac in target disk mode. I used iPartiton software on the other mac to delete the recovery partition on the MBP and extend the Macintosh HD partition to fill up the space (I CREATED A FULL BACKUP OF THE WHOLE DRIVE FIRST AS A DISK IMAGE!!!).
Then I re-ran the installer from the app store and it worked, and re-created the receovery partition.
This issue seems to happen for people who were originally on Lion, upgraded to Mountain Lion at some point, then now try to upgrade to Mavericks. This issue did not occur on 2 other macs I tried.
Posted on Oct 26, 2013 2:59 PM