Q: Mavericks won't install after accidentally deleting recovery partition on 10.6.8

I have been searching for hours for a solution and found none.

Essentially, I was running 10.8 on my MBA which originally came with 10.6. Wishing to perform a clean install of Mavericks, I accidentally deleted the recovery partition. Installing Mavericks would then always crash midway; so eventually I reinstalled my original OS from the bootable disc from apple. Then I figure I had to create a bootable disc for Mavericks, which I did, and the result is the same, the installation crashes midway.

Any other way I could install 10.9?

Thanks

MacBook Air (13-inch Late 2010)

Posted on Mar 2, 2014 2:26 PM

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el_mancebo Mar 2, 2014 3:26 PM in response to jorondow
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Mar 2, 2014 3:26 PM in response to jorondow

Mavericks creates a recovery partition while installing.
So, no previous recovery partition needed.

But playing whith partitions could be a mess.
Try a clean reinstall.
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