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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. 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.

This wasn't the case when the laptop was working.Check out MacMost Now 826: Creating a Recovery Disk at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. Another strange note here is that it shows the 500GB disk as having all space used except 37.5MB. It says that it has fixed the disk but there still seem to be issues in the fix log (checksum errors, etc.).

I have ran 'First Aid' in Disk Utility a number of times in a Verify/Fix cycle.

Running diskutil list in Internet Recovery I can see that the Recovery partition exists on disk0 but I assume it is corrupt in some way. This means that I cannot reinstall the version of Mac OS X currently on the disk. Every time I try this it boots Internet Recovery instead.

Booting from the local Recovery partition (Command-R) does not work.

I've been reading various articles and posts for the last few days to try and work out how to fix this, as follows: Unfortunately the warranty has no expired so any trip to the Apple Store will be quite expensive. On restarting the system showed a grey screen and a flashing directory symbol with a '?', then switched to the Prohibitory symbol. After waiting for several minutes to regain any kind of response, we did a hard reboot using the power button. I'm not sure what version this was but I assume Mavericks or Yosemite for reasons that will become clear.Īt the weekend the laptop seemed to grind to a halt and lockup while we were browsing the web.

At this point they also upgraded her to the latest OS X at the time. In 2013/14 it had an issue with the system files and when she took it into the Genius bar at Apple they reinstalled the OS (wiping all personal data in the process). My wife has a MacBook Pro that she bought new in 2012.