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No Recovery drive? Three alternatives are available to you.

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HardDriveIconXWhen some problems such as hard drive corruption occur on your Mac, or if you need to perform account maintenance such as resetting passwords or fixing account permissions, then you will need to use the tools that Apple includes on the hidden Recovery drive that is part of OS X. However, in some cases such as for RAID arrays, you may not have a recovery partition, in which case there are several alternatives you can use, even if you are limited by your internet connection: Continue reading →

Four methods for accessing recovery mode in OS X

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HardDriveIconXAccessing Recovery Mode in OS X may be necessary for restoring from a backup, and reinstalling OS X, among other low-level administrative tasks. In most cases, your Mac will have a local recovery partition based on the current OS X installation, that you can access; however, there may be instances where this will not work. For those who need to access Recovery Mode for a particular Mac, here are all of the way to go about doing this. Continue reading →

How to hide a hard drive partition on your Mac

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HardDriveIconXGenerally when you either partition your Mac’s boot drive, or attach a secondary drive to your Mac, then provided the partition’s formatting is compatible with OS X, you should see it mount and be available in the Finder. However, there may be times when you might wish to keep a partition hidden, either because you do not use it, or because it is not intended to be shown in the first place. Continue reading →

How to access Recovery Mode in OS X

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HelpIconXRecovery mode in OS X is a special boot options that allows you to run repair and reinstallation tools for your system, in addition to setting a firmware password, if needed.

Through the development of OS X, these tools have been provided in several different forms, and subsequently several different approaches for loading them. Continue reading →