How to Check for a Recovery HD in OS X Yosemite

Author: Serge Siou
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http://www.macstudioa.com - How To Check If a Recovery HD Partition was Created After Installing OS X Yosemite. How to Check if a Recovery HD is Missing After Doing a Clean Install, Update or System Image Install of OS X Yosemite. SUBSCRIBE For More Videos Like This:http://goo.gl/88PNgx How To Create Mac OS X Yosemite USB Boot Disk: http://youtu.be/Gm-qUPUyVB4 How To Recover Recovery HD Partition in OS X Mavericks: http://youtu.be/9r1HKf0IvFE Clean Install Mac OS X Mavericks http://youtu.be/kw9xS_Q1Dzw Performed and Tested On MacBook Air (Late 2013) and Using OS X Yosemite 10.10 Apple's Intel Based Systems: Mac Mini iMac Mac Pro MacBook Air MacBook Pro TRANSCRIPT: http://www.macstudioa.com/2014/11/how-to-check-for-recovery-hd-in-os-x-yosemite.html In this episode, How to Check for a Recovery HD in OS X Yosemite. Soooooo, Let’s Get Started. In previous versions of OS X Mountain Lion and Mavericks, holding down the Option key after pressing the power button, and letting go when the System Manager screen appears, as shown here, you were able to view the Recovery HD partition icon. Clicking on the Recovery icon brings you to the OS X Utilities screen shown here. Alternatively; holding down the Command-R keys after turning on the Mac and letting go when you see the Apple logo, and within a few seconds, the OS X Utilities screen appears. However; In OS X Yosemite, things have changed slightly, now when holding down the Option key after turning on the Mac as mentioned earlier,the Recovery HD icon is no longer visible. Therefore; in order to access the OS X Utilities options, found on the Recovery HD partition, like before, hold down the Command-R keys after turning on the Mac as mentioned earlier. However, if a Recovery HD partition was not created after installing OS X Yosemite and after pressing the Command-R keys, you will see the following screen shot, indicating that an Internet Recovery is Starting. Basically an automatic connection is made to Apple servers, where the necessary OS X Utilities needed, gets downloaded to your hard drive and which could take a quite a while to complete. Therefore; before pressing the Command-R keys after starting the Mac, it’s best to check that a Recovery HD partition was created after installing OS X Yosemite. To do so, simply launch Terminal and type the following one line command code: diskutil list As shown, a Recovery HD partition was created after the installation of Yosemite, as listed and shown here. However; if a Recovery HD partition was not created, you’ll see the following screen shot. If that’s the case, simply reinstall OS X Yosemite again. Upon reboot, re-issue the diskutil list command again in Terminal to verify that a Recovery HD partition has been created. And that’s all there is to it. Thanks for watching and thumbs-up if you liked this video, and please, don't forget to subscribe to be notified of the next episode. Thanks and Peace.

Comments

  1. Thank you very much for this! I was doing the wrong thing! I was letting go before I saw the apple logo. Spent hours searching for a solution because I thought something was wrong with my Apple Recovery drive partition
  2. how to recover files which cleaned by disk cleaner? help me!!!
  3. When I erase the Hardrive and then my Mac crash then when I opened it again I in the Internet recovery menu and now what pls help me
  4. Is this going to apply to El Capitan also Serge?
  5. Mine boots to internet recovery even if there is a Recovery HD
  6. But how do you GET to Recovery HD? Command +R doesn't work, neither does Option command +R, or ANYTHING.
  7. How to get into iMac computer with the terminal thing blocked by admin
  8. Great vid. Saved me hours of searching online. Subcribed
  9. IF theres Apple.com support do the same but Hold alt
  10. Like an idiot I let my Mac get deleted from my ICloud. Now there's an activation lock on it. Any ad ice- besides trying to find a receipt for a 2 year old Mac and taking it into Apple? Thank you.
  11. so i lost my utilities folder it's permanently deleted...h ow do I get it back and It included terminal and other utilities.... plz help me
  12. Ty a lot!!!
  13. I appreciate you creating this informative and useful video. It is clear and you explain yourself well.
  14. well I am in the middle of a reset but I just want to say that if this works you are my hero. I had some technical difficulties when I installed Windows 10 with bootcamp and my mac was deleted and I was not able to get back my mac I was able to keep this as a secret but I did not like windows because the ads and viruses and my mac volume was not supported on windows so I could not even hear any sounds
  15. Really helpful, cheers!
  16. thanx
  17. hi my macbook air 2009 lost all icon on the screen. no access to any tool whatsoever. i wanted to reboot it to factory settings. however, unlike some video shows mine doesn't show the recovery hard drive. how ca i do reset it.? thank you
  18. Thank you for the video, I was breaking my head trying to restore mac macbook.
  19. So helpful
  20. hi, im not able to boot in that screen at 01:18, the " internet recovery" option by pressing cmd and R.
    any tips please?