In the past there was easy to use tool to create an external recovery HD or CD!
Anything available for El Capitan like it was available for LION!?
Debug-Features build into Apples Disk Utility are also no longer available!
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), all updates included
if your mac is newer it supports recovery from built in or internet ready sources.
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
if your mac is older you may wish to use time machine
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
for debug features you may wish to contact Apple and let them know you would like to see this feature again
apple.com/feedback
The same OS X Lion OS X Recovery Disk Assistant app works with OS X 10.7-10.11. I used it this last week to create an OS X El Capitan external USB thumb drive (4GB) recovery disk.
You're correct, the Debug feature that could be turned on in Disk Utility's Menu Bar is gone. Might be because of the redesign of Disk Utility GUI.
thanks for your prompt respones and hints!
Being tired waiting for hours to download things needed to restart and for the possibility to have no access to internet - I wanted to be prepared by using old fashioned CDs/ DVDs or USB-Sticks to be able to re-install or repair all needed stuff locally without internet intervention.
If Recovery Partition on Mac fails or even the drive, you need something external to start with and without using all the download features it will be less time consuming - I guess!
The last Apple generation tool to create external Recovery HD / Stick etc. was available for Lion - as fas as I know - there is nothing comparable prepared for El Capitan!?
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
RecPart Creator only works for your (internal) hard drive with Mac HD - as far as I know the program! I don´t know any possibility to get a working copy of the Mac recovery partition to an external drive / CD / DVD. You even don´t see the partition and the local Debug tools of Disk Utility are also removed in El Capitan! This makes my life miserable on top!
Any other thougts because I am looking for an external solution to be later absolutely independent from Internet in a recovery or reinstall situation!
Make sure you understand the following NOTE: in the System Requirements link at the bottom of the page.
Note: This utility is not compatible with a disk that is using CoreStorage, including any disk larger than 2.2TB, any disk with FileVault 2 enabled, and all Fusion drives.
How about this?
El Capitan how to create external recovery hd
