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How to create Recovery Partition under Yosemite

Hello all,


during a partitioning I accidentally deleted the recovery partition (~ 600 MB) of Yosemite I had under my Macbook Air. Now I want to crate a new recovery partition for Yosemite. So that I can boot machine in recovery mode and use disk utility, upgrade/re-install OS etc. During search the web I came across a tool called Recovery Partition Creator. But this tool has no support for Yosemite (10.10) yet.


is there any method to create recovery partition under Yosemite manually? Plz help me out. Thanks in advance.

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 1, 2014 10:01 AM

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Jan 28, 2015 9:31 PM in response to gazlewisjones

Version 3.8 of Recovery Partition Creator works just fine with Yosemite. I use SuperDuper! for my backups, and unfortunately, it does not back up the Recovery HD partition (Carbon Copy Cloner does). In any event, about 1 1/2 months ago, I suddenly had an issue with an internet site and Firefox. This happened two days after I had made a SuperDuper! backup of my system on my Mac Mini. Instead of spending time on trying to find out why (I think it was due to a program I downloaded and ran to try and help a user on a forum), I booted from the SuperDuper! backup, ran Disk Utility from there to erase and re-format my internal 256 gig SSD, and then did the restore from the backup. Worked like a charm, and I was back in business. But, I was missing the two key small partitions Recovery HD, and the eDrive created by TechTool Pro. So, I first launched TechTool to successfully re-create the eDrive partition. Then, I ran Version 3.8 of Recovery Partition Creator, pointed to the "Install OS X Yosemite" file, and voila, the Recovery HD partition was successfully created. I even tested it by being able to boot to the Recovery HD partition.


I have been on forums associated with Recovery Partition Creator, and quite a few folks (including myself) have asked the author if a Yosemite "update" will be coming. Unfortunately, none of us has received a reply. But, on a couple of those forums, other users have also reported success with the software and Yosemite.

How to create Recovery Partition under Yosemite

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