Help! When I try to install Mavericks on my 15 inch MBP i get this "Install Failed: OS X could not be installed on your computer. OS X can't be installed on the disk because a recovery system can't be created. Visit www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more". Please reply in easy to understand instuctions. Thanks everyone! Here is a pic of my Disk Utility:
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Exact same prob. I don't have boot camp. My HD is OS X journaled, GUID partitioned...
Can't find any answers. Please help.
Thanks!
Same problem. No bootcamp but no recovery system. I don't know what happened to it, as I used to be able to do command -R and it would come up. I am also 10.8.5. I have tried resizing the empty partition numerous times, with and without a reboot, with no luck. OSX journaled, GUID partitioned...
Thanks!
Same Problem. If I press cmd+R while booting I can go into the internet recovery mode. I verified permissions on the disc, repaired them, checked for disc errors and found none. Still I can install mavericks. Could it be that if we reinstall first mountain lion then we can actually upgrade to mavericks? any help would be great!
mac mini (mid 2011) OSX journaled, GUID partioned.
I've read in other places that if we could re-install Lion, that would create the recovery partition again, but I can't seem to download it from the App store. I can hit the download button, which goes grey, but nothing seems to start downloading. Can anyone explain why Mavericks can't simply make a recovery partition by itself?
Is there any hope that Apple will address this, and that we can just re-download Mavericks later and try to install again? Or is this too infrequent an issue?
Yes I've read the same. It seems to be a problem with a previous upgrade, in my case from lion to mountain lion, that prevents mavericks from creating the recovery partition. I already installed on an external disc Mavericks and its running just fine. but on my main macintosh hd disc it just can't install it.
If your mac came with lion, you can press command+r after the booting chime to enter the recovery mode, if you have no recovery partition right now (like me) it will open the internet recovery, which takes longer. after loading it will give you the option to reinstall lion.
I guess I might give this a try this weekend.I'll post back the results or please let us know if reinstalling lion helped you.
The instructions there require you to install on an external. It will create a recovery partition on the external, then you can boot off that and install on the internal.
I would just clone the internal to an external using Carbon Copy Cloner, boot from that, repartition the internal, and then try to install. You could then migrate from the external on initial startup after installing.
Hi Barney-15E what would happen if I boot to my external with mavericks to clone it to my internal? will that work? When Mavericks installed to the external it created the recovery partition, would that be cloned too?
If the external has a Recovery partition, CCC will clone the recovery, too.
So, I guess another option would be to clone to external, upgrade the external (it should get a recovery HD when you upgrade), then clone back to internal.
My mac is too old for the internet command-R recovery. I made a mountain lion usb install disk and went into recovery on that and tried to reinstall lion, but I got the same message as when trying to install mavericks--could not install a recovery portion. Could someone point me in the direction of the step by step cloning process? Thanks.
I had the same message. This helped me: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3926
Barney-15E wrote:
If the external has a Recovery partition, CCC will clone the recovery, too.
When I tried it, creating a recovery partition on the destination disk was a manual process. The clone function wanted to "archive" the recovery partition into a file inside the destination boot volume.
Sorry, I don't know what that means.
Never mind. I slightly misread your statement. Now that I reread it, I can neither confirm nor contradict it.
Seems that I finally made it.
The only solution I could find was to create a bootable USB thumbdrive using the instructions in here http://lifehacker.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-usb-installation-drive-145 0280026 booted from the usb and then erase the Macintosh HD (actually I went a full step forward recreating the partition using the original name. Then installed from the usb and everything seems to went ok. right now its reinstalling everything from my time machine backup. In my previous test, this process created the recovery partion, but I'm not able to confirm that yet.
Hope this helps any of you.
hi,
i had the same problem and after searching for hours, i found a solution, which doesn't need to format the partitions.
follow these two links:
the first link is not that important, it gives clues for why it may work. it also gives some other ideas. but the second link is the jewel. from the beginning, follow till the end of the three points of step two. you dont need to go further.
i followed till the end of step two and then started installing mavericks again. works like a charm!
TIP: be very carefule with the names of the partitions.
Help I have no Recovery HD wont let me install Mavericks
