Where is macintosh hd in lion

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Is it this prohibitory sign? Improve this answer. Lri Lri 95k 17 17 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Imanoooooob Imanoooooob 1. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Explaining the semiconductor shortage, and how it might end. To do this, you will first need to redownload the Lion installer from the Mac App Store you can do this by holding the Option key and clicking the Purchases tag, which will give you an option to redownload the installer.

With the installer available, you now have two options. The first is to create an external boot drive from the installation disk image that is contained within the installer, and the second is to simply run the installer and install Lion to a secondary hard drive.

When the installation is complete, you can then boot to the new drive and run Apple's Lion Recovery Disk Assistant tool to create a separate recovery thumb drive.

Alternatively you can reboot to your main OS installation, run Disk Utility, and then format the new "Macintosh HD" volume on your secondary hard drive, which will leave the Recovery HD partition there for you to use if needed, while freeing up the rest of the drive for other uses.

With these methods, do keep in mind that you may have to restart with the Option key held down to select and boot from the Recovery HD partition on the attached drive. Supported drive setups If your system initially had a recovery partition but after cloning and formatting it is no longer available, then one method of getting it back is to simply download and reinstall Lion from the Mac App Store.

Doing this should keep your data and installed applications intact, but result in a fresh local Recovery HD partition installed along side your OS installation. Apple recently released new EFI firmware updates for mid MacBook and Mac Mini systems that enable Internet Recovery, but there are also updates available for newer Mac models that do the same thing.

With the Internet Recovery enabled in the Mac's firmware, to use it you just need to restart with the Command-R keys held down. Question marked as Solved User profile for user: mende1 mende1. View answer in context. All replies Drop Down menu. Loading page content. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: Kappy Kappy. Jul 31, PM in response to mende1 In response to mende1 Thank you very much.

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