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OS X Recovery will not start for me
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1522305" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Actually, holding down the Option key upon boot up gives you a choice of booting either to your Macintosh HD (or whatever you call it) or the Recovery partition. If you boot to Recovery, you then have the choice to run Time Machine, reinstall, Disk Utility, etc.</p><p></p><p>Holding down command + r boots the machine to the Recovery partition and opens the same dialog that offers the choice of restoring from Time Machine, reinstall, Disk Utility, etc. In either case it does not automatically go into Internet Recovery unless you choose reinstall.</p><p></p><p>Which is why I think there's a problem with the OP's hard drive. And, I agree with chas, if there is no Recovery partition for some reason, it will likely go to Internet Recovery to reinstall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1522305, member: 46727"] Actually, holding down the Option key upon boot up gives you a choice of booting either to your Macintosh HD (or whatever you call it) or the Recovery partition. If you boot to Recovery, you then have the choice to run Time Machine, reinstall, Disk Utility, etc. Holding down command + r boots the machine to the Recovery partition and opens the same dialog that offers the choice of restoring from Time Machine, reinstall, Disk Utility, etc. In either case it does not automatically go into Internet Recovery unless you choose reinstall. Which is why I think there's a problem with the OP's hard drive. And, I agree with chas, if there is no Recovery partition for some reason, it will likely go to Internet Recovery to reinstall. [/QUOTE]
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