How to Create a Recovery Partition?

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How to Create a Recovery Partition?

Hi,

I recently bought a MacBook Pro Mid 2015, and immediatly upgrade the SDD for a 1 Tb one.

Few days after I had boot problems (Never had in 6 yrs!!) , and after a couple of days, I (fortunately) had solved the problem and my Mac runs OK now.

But, on the way to succeed I had many problems...

Main problem was (would have saved me a lot of time), I realized that I didn´t have any recovery partition, I had to use another computer to download and prepared a USB flash bootable installer OS X. Now that my computer runs OK, I want to know if there´s any way to create a recovery OS X, so next time (hope not) I can just press ALT Key in the boot process and choose the recovery partition to boot up, and the use the terminal app to solve the problem.

Is that possible? If so, how?

Thanks for your comments.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4Gb Ram

Posted on May 10, 2016 4:51 PM

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Answer 1

May 10, 2016 4:58 PM in response to Luigiview

What version of OS X is installed on your MBP?

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Courcoul

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May 10, 2016 5:56 PM in response to Luigiview

If it is indeed a 2015 model, would have come with either Yosemite or El Capitan, would not run reliably on anything less and both of which will create their Recovery partitions when installing. So in order to understand what went wrong along the way, you'd need to provide much more details of what you did.

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Luigiview Author

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May 11, 2016 12:05 PM in response to Allan Eckert

El Capitan 10.11.4

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Answer 4

May 16, 2016 2:55 PM in response to Luigiview

Try http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/how-create-mac-recovery-partition-os-x-el-c apitan-yosemite-backup-free-3636717/

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keg55

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May 16, 2016 2:55 PM in response to Luigiview

There are two methods that I'm aware of to create or recreate your Recovery HD for OS X El Capitan.

Methods:

Reinstall OS X El Capitan on top of itself. If your Mac came preinstalled with El Capitan, you can boot into Internet Recovery (Command+Option+R) and select Reinstall OS X. Installing El Capitan on top of itself will NOT touch any of your apps, user accounts or data.
If you have the Install OS X El Capitan.app file, you can use that file along with this utility. The utility will only write or rewrite the Recovery HD. The only issue using this utility is if your Macintosh HD is a Fusion Drive or a CoreStorage volume. This utility will not work with those. If either of these is the case, you should use method 1.