Reader Kai Peterson installed a copy of Yosemite but seems to be missing something. He writes:
I installed a clean copy of Yosemite on an external hard drive, which I cloned to another Mac using the demo of Carbon Copy Cloner. When trying to troubleshoot something on that Mac I discovered that it had no recovery partition. Is there any way I can create one?
How to backup / clone your Mac OS X hard drive with the free software called carbon copy cloner.http://www.tech2buzz.com. Cloning a Mac OS X system from another Mac Materials. A FireWire cable; Carbon Copy Cloner, a free program to assist with the cloning; Procedure. Boot target machine in 'FireWire Target Disk Mode'. This is a mode built into the firmware which makes the Mac appear to be a FireWire disk drive to other machines.
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Bluestacks 4.80.0.1060 x64. There is. Before I walk through it I should tell you that this is expected behavior. When Carbon Copy Cloner 4 clones a bootable drive to another drive, it doesn’t create a recovery partition in the same way that the OS X installer does. Instead, it creates an archive of it and places the archive here: /Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc.
Play ps4 on your pc. This archive provides you with the means to install a recovery partition on the drive—and you can do it while booted from that drive. Just launch Carbon Copy Cloner again, click Show Sidebar in the toolbar, and select the affected drive in the Volumes list. Information about it will appear to the right.
Click the Recovery HD button at the bottom of the window and a sheet will appear that explains something about the necessity of the recovery partition. If you’d like to install it, just click the Create Recovery HD button at the bottom of the sheet. Carbon Copy Cloner will unmount the volume, resize the main partition to make room for the recovery partition, install the necessary software, and then remount the volume.
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