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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1483355" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>OK, thanks for posting back and welcome to our forums!</p><p></p><p>There's nothing that makes recovery any easier than having a good recent backup. The first thing we advise is to use Time Machine that's included with your copy of Mountain Lion. Purchase a good quality external hard drive and use it to make backups frequently. There are other methods of backup available which are also recommended: <a href="http://www.bombich.com/" target="_blank">Carbon Copy Cloner</a></p><p></p><p>Your internal hard drive copy of Mountain Lion includes a Recovery Partition which can be accessed by pressing Command + R upon startup. If you should ever have to go into recovery to verify the hard drive or reinstall Mountain Lion you can enter recovery and use the tools there to verify and repair the hard drive or to reinstall Mountain Lion.</p><p></p><p>I suggest trying out the recovery feature for yourself as a test run: Reboot your machine and press the command and R keys at the same time. The machine will boot to recovery. From there you can see the various tools and options which are available. After you're through looking around, just reboot back to normal mode.</p><p></p><p>But again, make backups. It's not if the hard drive will go out, it's when.... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1483355, member: 46727"] OK, thanks for posting back and welcome to our forums! There's nothing that makes recovery any easier than having a good recent backup. The first thing we advise is to use Time Machine that's included with your copy of Mountain Lion. Purchase a good quality external hard drive and use it to make backups frequently. There are other methods of backup available which are also recommended: [URL="http://www.bombich.com/"]Carbon Copy Cloner[/URL] Your internal hard drive copy of Mountain Lion includes a Recovery Partition which can be accessed by pressing Command + R upon startup. If you should ever have to go into recovery to verify the hard drive or reinstall Mountain Lion you can enter recovery and use the tools there to verify and repair the hard drive or to reinstall Mountain Lion. I suggest trying out the recovery feature for yourself as a test run: Reboot your machine and press the command and R keys at the same time. The machine will boot to recovery. From there you can see the various tools and options which are available. After you're through looking around, just reboot back to normal mode. But again, make backups. It's not if the hard drive will go out, it's when.... ;) [/QUOTE]
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