Create Recovery Partition on Your Mac OS X

Undoubtedly, computers just transform the way of lives. With the high dependency on technology, almost all of us depend on electronic gadgets such as mobile, tablet, or computers. As a home user or professional user, we store almost all our important data in the system. But, what you do, when your system corrupt or damage? Then, the making recovery partition plays the major role to restore data without any damage.

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At the time of catastrophic failure or corruption, recovery partitions offer to repair and re-installation of an operating system. Basically, the data is hidden and stored in a system partition at the root of the hard drive that restrains compromising file integrity, or USB flash drive, or the need to carry around optical media. Somehow, your recovery partition is missing just because of some technical errors, and then follows these guidelines to create recovery partition in OS X.

Steps to create recovery partition

First, you have to download OS X installer from the App Store. Additionally, you will need the Recovery Partition Creator (RPC). An AppleScript enables to create the partition with ease.

Step 1

Firstly, launch the Recovery Partition script. Then, create a backup; even you can use the Time Machine to create a backup, just in case something goes wrong. Additionally, the script will prompt the users with the OS X version that they are currently using.

Step 2

Now, select the primary disk partition where the Mac OS X install resides, then click on ‘OK’.

Note — you can also select an external disk. But, you need to connect the disk to your Mac at the time when you run Disk Recovery Assistance.

Step 3

Now, choose the OS X installer that you have obtained from the App Store, and click on ‘OK’.

Step 4

After clicking ‘OK’, there is a possibility to check the drives in case of errors before the script makes the partition. Now, tap ‘continue’.

Step 5

Now, click on ‘OK’ to enable the script creating the Recovery partition with the Mac OS X of your choice within 10 minutes.

Step 6

Once the above process is completed, just run the ‘diskutil list’ again. You will now be able to look this on the list: Apple Boot Recovery HD.

Now, you are capable to repair disks with the “Disk Recovery Assistance” instead of through the “Internet Recovery”.

Harry Williams is a proficient content writer and likes to write impressive and descriptive articles about Mac OS, Windows 10, and other operating systems. He always shares tips & tricks about how to deal with computers and software applications.