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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1499754" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Newer Macs (models that shipped with either 10.7 or 10.8 installed) do not come with system restore/OS DVDs as they have in the past. The drive contains a hidden recovery partition that can be used to attempt to repair the drive, reinstall the OS, or reload data/information from a backup. Here's a bit of information that might explain things better.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718" target="_blank">OS X: About OS X Recovery</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/the-os-x-recovery-partition-what-it-is-why-its-there-and-how-to-remove-it/" target="_blank">The OS X Recovery Partition: What It Is, Why It's There and How to Remove It | Mactuts+</a></p><p></p><p>The downside of this arrangement is that doing a complete reinstall is that requires net access <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/create-a-bootable-mountain-lion-usb-key-installer/" target="_blank">unless you have created a USB drive with the installer</a>. My suggestion would be to do the following:</p><p></p><p>1. Make sure you have a plan to back up date regularly. If you use Time Machine keep in mind that <strong>even with the system files included you cannot boot directly from a time machine backup</strong>.</p><p></p><p>2. To get around the inability to boot from a Time Machine backup you can either reinstall the OS then load the remainder of system and backup data from Time Machine or "clone" your hard drive and boot from the clone in an emergency. Assuming the clone is periodically kept current you can boot from it and get the system back up and running.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1499754, member: 131855"] Newer Macs (models that shipped with either 10.7 or 10.8 installed) do not come with system restore/OS DVDs as they have in the past. The drive contains a hidden recovery partition that can be used to attempt to repair the drive, reinstall the OS, or reload data/information from a backup. Here's a bit of information that might explain things better. [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718]OS X: About OS X Recovery[/url] [url=http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/the-os-x-recovery-partition-what-it-is-why-its-there-and-how-to-remove-it/]The OS X Recovery Partition: What It Is, Why It's There and How to Remove It | Mactuts+[/url] The downside of this arrangement is that doing a complete reinstall is that requires net access [URL="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/create-a-bootable-mountain-lion-usb-key-installer/"]unless you have created a USB drive with the installer[/URL]. My suggestion would be to do the following: 1. Make sure you have a plan to back up date regularly. If you use Time Machine keep in mind that [B]even with the system files included you cannot boot directly from a time machine backup[/B]. 2. To get around the inability to boot from a Time Machine backup you can either reinstall the OS then load the remainder of system and backup data from Time Machine or "clone" your hard drive and boot from the clone in an emergency. Assuming the clone is periodically kept current you can boot from it and get the system back up and running. [/QUOTE]
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