Generally speaking, you don’t need to create a recovery partition for your Mac: since the launch of Lion (when Apple stopped selling boxed copies of its operating systems, so it knew buyers wouldn’t ...

One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...

The included Recovery partition in OS X Lion and Mountain Lion provides tools for repairing a damaged hard drive, restoring from backup, and reinstalling OS X if needed, among other options. If your ...

Whether it's to fix problems with your Mac, or get it ready to sell on to someone else, macOS Recovery, also known as Mac Recovery Mode, is a powerful tool to help you. It would be great if Macs just ...

Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

When Apple released Mac OS X 10.7 Lion last month, the company did a very unusual thing: It made it an online-only download. That freaked out a lot of people who were afraid if something went wrong, ...