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#Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 how to
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New Hard drive that is compatible with Mac.

Mac running OSX Lion or later (prior versions didn't have the recovery partition).

I've had little to no success with USB powered devices. Be sure to get one with external power source.

SATA/IDE to USB Adapter (Mine was Vantec USB 2.0, but it shouldn't matter.

Finally, on startup one day, he saw a progress bar that would complete and then the device would shut down. Initial Symptom: My husband's Mac had been randomly shutting down for some time, but we were limping it along. If your Mac is unable to access that feature, this may not work for you, but I included some other handy stuff, like recovering files from the drive. NOTE: This process only worked because the hard drive was still able to access recovery mode by holding Command+R on startup. Please use Common sense if I did this and look around the screen for something that looks like what I'm talking about. I did most of this from memory, so I may have messed up a label here or there.

#Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 Pc

This is probably overkill on instructions, but there are PC people out there who may try to help out the (much more) rare critical Mac issue. Hopefully I diagnosed a bad hard drive correctly (I'll provide my method) and I hope this helps someone out there.

#Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 how to

For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.Being a 1 Mac household and an IT professional who has only supported PCs, I had a challenging time trying to figure out how to reload OSX after my husband's Mac hard drive died. There are situations in which this will not work.

#Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 install

You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Continue button. Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported.

(SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed.

In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Alterhatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Reinstall OS X: Reinstalling Lion Without the Installer Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears.