Problem When using the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, you get the following message when creating a disk: “The recovery drive wasn’t created. There was an error creating recovery disk”. Solution Go to your Applications folder. Open the Utilities folder. Open Disk Utility. On the left, select the drive that you want to use to be… Continue reading “There was an error creating recovery disk”
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Create your own Mac OS X Lion Recovery on a USB
Creating this recovery drive will only give you the same options as the built in Recovery system in Lion (accessed by holding cmd + R on startup). To reinstall Lion, you will still need to download it from the recovery system. The following steps will erase all data on your USB drive. Make sure to… Continue reading Create your own Mac OS X Lion Recovery on a USB
Create a limited Recovery Disc
For when you are unable to log on to the computer, the recovery disc is able to run Startup Repair, System Restore and other options such as run the command prompt. This disc will work for Windows XP, Vista and 7. To use it, download the iso file (see below), burn it to disc and… Continue reading Create a limited Recovery Disc