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Installing Lion with "no recovery" error
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<blockquote data-quote="scbevans" data-source="post: 1273681" data-attributes="member: 209477"><p><strong>OSX Lion installation problem</strong></p><p></p><p>I have experienced exactly the same problem as Wenfuli. Frankly, I expected better of Apple. It takes hours to download the software (on typical UK broadband speeds), another half an hour to install it, only to be told at the last hurdle that Computer Says No. And very poor advice about what to do. The No Recovery page you are directed to suggests a somewhat different problem from the one encountered but seems to advise the rather frightening prospect of wiping your hard disk and starting over. Well, thanks a bunch!</p><p></p><p>The support page says you can install Lion without a recovery disk but there is no clue as to how you can do that. As Wenfuli found, your only option in practice seems to be to return to the old operating system.</p><p></p><p>The advice given by chscag here suggests that the reason Lion will not install may actually have nothing to do with recovery at all but to do with disk space or other unspecified failings.</p><p></p><p>Why can Apple or their software not check your system first to discover its failings and then report them and advise what to do about them? Had I known it was going to be this painful I would not have started any downloading and I would have kept my money. Now I feel I have to persevere just to get my money's worth and not to let the oppressive system get the better of me.</p><p></p><p>As usual with computers, there is still an assumption that end users must be deemed capable and willing of getting under the bonnet. Tssk!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scbevans, post: 1273681, member: 209477"] [b]OSX Lion installation problem[/b] I have experienced exactly the same problem as Wenfuli. Frankly, I expected better of Apple. It takes hours to download the software (on typical UK broadband speeds), another half an hour to install it, only to be told at the last hurdle that Computer Says No. And very poor advice about what to do. The No Recovery page you are directed to suggests a somewhat different problem from the one encountered but seems to advise the rather frightening prospect of wiping your hard disk and starting over. Well, thanks a bunch! The support page says you can install Lion without a recovery disk but there is no clue as to how you can do that. As Wenfuli found, your only option in practice seems to be to return to the old operating system. The advice given by chscag here suggests that the reason Lion will not install may actually have nothing to do with recovery at all but to do with disk space or other unspecified failings. Why can Apple or their software not check your system first to discover its failings and then report them and advise what to do about them? Had I known it was going to be this painful I would not have started any downloading and I would have kept my money. Now I feel I have to persevere just to get my money's worth and not to let the oppressive system get the better of me. As usual with computers, there is still an assumption that end users must be deemed capable and willing of getting under the bonnet. Tssk! [/QUOTE]
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