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Can I make boot disk from 10.10.2 preinstalled
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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1644687" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p>Hello and welcome to the forum - Yosemite has a hidden 'recovery partition' that you can boot into, if needed; also, if you have the Yosemite install package (likely deleted), then a bootable USB drive could be made - directions <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2367748/how-to-make-a-bootable-os-x-10-10-yosemite-install-drive.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><p></p><p>BUT, you should quickly establish a backup plan, and the first two suggestions are: 1) Purchase an external HD (of good size) - Western Digitals are often recommended here - and dedicate it to Apple's Time Machine, which is built into the OS; however, it is not bootable; and so 2) Purchase another external HD and use cloning software - there are 2 or 3 often suggested, but I am using CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) - this will make a cloned bootable duplicate of your computer's internal drive. </p><p></p><p>I actually have more external HDs and duplicate each of those procedures for both my MBPro and iMac - in addition, I further backup personal files (music, docs, photos) to another external SSD on the laptop and to Carbonite online for the desktop machine - maybe a little paranoid but external HDs do fail (20% @ 4 yrs and possibly 50% @ 6 yrs). Good luck - Dave <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1644687, member: 234411"] Hello and welcome to the forum - Yosemite has a hidden 'recovery partition' that you can boot into, if needed; also, if you have the Yosemite install package (likely deleted), then a bootable USB drive could be made - directions [URL="http://www.macworld.com/article/2367748/how-to-make-a-bootable-os-x-10-10-yosemite-install-drive.html"]HERE[/URL]. BUT, you should quickly establish a backup plan, and the first two suggestions are: 1) Purchase an external HD (of good size) - Western Digitals are often recommended here - and dedicate it to Apple's Time Machine, which is built into the OS; however, it is not bootable; and so 2) Purchase another external HD and use cloning software - there are 2 or 3 often suggested, but I am using CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) - this will make a cloned bootable duplicate of your computer's internal drive. I actually have more external HDs and duplicate each of those procedures for both my MBPro and iMac - in addition, I further backup personal files (music, docs, photos) to another external SSD on the laptop and to Carbonite online for the desktop machine - maybe a little paranoid but external HDs do fail (20% @ 4 yrs and possibly 50% @ 6 yrs). Good luck - Dave :) [/QUOTE]
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