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Jan 16, 2016 12:32 PM in response to Richard Riegnerby Eau Rouge,El Capitan will install its own Recovery Partition. If you are overwriting an existing OS install the Recovery will be overwritten onto the previous
Recovery version.
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Jan 16, 2016 2:21 PM in response to Eau Rougeby Richard Riegner,Yes, El Capitan did overwrite the Mountain Lion Recovery System on the iMac internal hard disk.
But my external backup disk has a Mountain Lion Recovery System, and that has not been updated. Is there a way to overwrite the Mountain Lion Recovery System on the external disk? This was possible for Mountain Lion using the Recovery Disk Assistant, but I have not found anything similar for El Capitan.
Thanks.
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Apr 10, 2016 6:53 AM in response to Richard Riegnerby zenjim,I just tried it and it works perfectly. It took a few minutes to create the Recovery Partition on the USB drive, then I booted holding 'option' and it showed the Macintosh HD, the Recovery HD on the internal HDD, then the Recovery HD on the USB drive. Booted to it just fine and was able to see my Time Machine backup to restore from.