It is an old one and I don't even know if you get them that small anymore. It is only a 1G drive so it is fairly cheap. Now you've got it and you can use it.īefore I run it I've got this little USB drive here. It downloads as a disk image and then you drag the actual utility out of the disk image into say your Applications/Utilities folder. So you go here and you can download this tiny little utility. I will put a link to it in the post in MacMost. So the first thing you need to do is to get an App from Apple called the Recovery Disk Assistant. Then it is handy to have a recovery partition stored on a little USB drive that you can boot from.
If it physically is damaged or can't boot and you can neither access the regular partition or the recovery partition and say you are adding a new drive to it to replace that one or some other circumstance comes up.
What happens if the drive itself goes bad. You don't need to insert say a DVD that came with your Mac or anything like that to do it because this recovery partition take care of it for you. You can use that to fix the main partition, the main drive, to reinstall OS X, do all sorts of things.
So if somehow your installed Mac OS X gets corrupted or something you can boot holding down Command R on the keyboard and it will boot the recovery mode. So what this means there is a small partition on your Mac that you can boot into if you run into trouble. Now starting with Lion, and continuing with Mountain Lion, we've all got a recovery partition on our Mac, at least if you have a fairly recent model Mac and we haven't set anything to something not standard like using a different type format for the hard drive.
DISKWARRIOR BOOT FROM USB HOW TO
On today's episode let me show you how to make a recovery drive for your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 826: Creating a Recovery Disk at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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