Recovery HD Partition

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Recovery HD Partition

I have a Mac Book Air with a Recovery Partition. It is taking up 15GB of space. Anything i read it is supposed to take up 670MB. Whay is this so? And can i just delete it and create it again? Do I need it?

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Mar 30, 2015 7:15 PM

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Kappy

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Mar 30, 2015 7:18 PM in response to tezza02

No, you can't just delete it and restore it. To fix this you would need to repartition the drive and reinstall OS X. Yes, you need it in order to use Disk Utility to repair the hard drive or to reinstall OS X.

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