Jay3000

Q: Recovery partition required?! (Find My Mac)

Hello when I try to turn on find my mac I see this..Screen Shot 2016-03-08 at 7.40.15 PM.png

 

Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it? I am running the  most recent vs of El Capitan on a Late 2011 Macbook Pro. Any help to save me a trip to the store is much appreciated.

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Mar 8, 2016 4:50 PM

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  • by keg55,

    keg55 keg55 Mar 10, 2016 11:02 AM in response to Jay3000
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    Mar 10, 2016 11:02 AM in response to Jay3000

    Click on Download to the right of that line.

     

    If the right hand side says Downloaded (like below) then you have it in your /Applications folder. If this is the case, I would delete it out of the /Applications folder and redownload it as there was a certificates issue a few weeks back that require it to be downloaded again to use the new certificate. Otherwise, It may fail the installation with less than a minute to go.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-03-10 at 11.57.09 AM.png

  • by Jay3000,

    Jay3000 Jay3000 Mar 10, 2016 11:28 AM in response to keg55
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    Mar 10, 2016 11:28 AM in response to keg55

    Well it downloaded , what happened  was after I accepted the terms of service it had a picture of a hard drive there, when I clicked it I got the you cant download OSX with macintosh HD, or something like that.

  • by keg55,

    keg55 keg55 Mar 10, 2016 11:35 AM in response to Jay3000
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    Mar 10, 2016 11:35 AM in response to Jay3000

    Without seeing the message, I wouldn't know. Is your Mac encrypted? Is Macintosh HD your internal drive you're using now?

     

    Did you have Cancel and Continue buttons to click? If so, click Continue.

  • by Jay3000,

    Jay3000 Jay3000 Mar 10, 2016 11:35 AM in response to keg55
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    Mar 10, 2016 11:35 AM in response to keg55

    Well I did what you said. I saw it in applications and removed it. I am trying to re download it now as we speak, I will see what happens. If I get the same prompt I will attach it.

  • by Jay3000,

    Jay3000 Jay3000 Mar 10, 2016 11:48 AM in response to keg55
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    Mar 10, 2016 11:48 AM in response to keg55

    Ok its taking a long time to download now I may wait, is my operating system fine with out the OSX application in the applications folder. I deleted as you said but its saying now that its going to take 3 hrs to download and Im using my phone as a hotspot , and dont want to use that much data.

  • by keg55,

    keg55 keg55 Mar 10, 2016 11:58 AM in response to Jay3000
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    Mar 10, 2016 11:58 AM in response to Jay3000

    You have no Recovery HD on your system. You want to use Find My Mac which requires a Recovery HD on your system.

     

    Yes, your system is fine without the Recovery HD except when you want to use Find My Mac, repair your Macintosh HD outside of OS X, reinstall OS X after erasing your Macintosh HD, etc. You can definitely wait until you can use something other than your phone to download OS X.

  • by sudont,

    sudont sudont May 1, 2016 12:01 PM in response to Jay3000
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    May 1, 2016 12:01 PM in response to Jay3000

    Are you quite sure you really have no Recovery Partition? I, too, was getting this notice when I tried to set up Find My Mac, yet I know I had a Recovery Partition. Perhaps it's too late, (or maybe this can help someone else), but before you go and reinstall the system, I'd check whether the Recovery Partition exists. You can do this by opening Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and when the prompt appears, type:

     

    diskutil list

    You should see something like:

    ~ $ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:          Apple_CoreStorage Thee HD                 999.3 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

    ~ $

    Apple_Boot Recovery HD being the key thing. If you see that, then you have a Recovery Partition.

     

    Or, you can simply restart and hold down the < command + r > keys and see if it boots into the recovery disk. If the Recovery Partition exists, and I suspect it does, then you have a different issue. If you restored from SuperDuper, as someone mentioned, it should not have affected the Recovery Partition.

     

    What solved this problem for me was that I'd created a Recovery Partition on a USB stick for Disk Warrior, (and had it mounted on the Desktop). Once I'd unmounted that, my iCloud Settings were then able to recognize the original Recovery Partition. I don't know if this is possible, but if you somehow cloned all of your hard drive onto an external disk, including the Recovery Partition, having this mounted might be confusing to Settings. Try unmounting, then disconnecting, any external drives. Then see if the original Recovery Partition is recognized.

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