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<blockquote data-quote="lindycorp" data-source="post: 1648264" data-attributes="member: 346604">Eureka, when I&nbsp; held down Option and rebooted, it actually did find a Recovery disc.&nbsp; I got the option to boot from a recovery disk titled 10.10.recovery or something similar, or the regular Macintosh disk.&nbsp; I was so fascinated I clicked on Recovery, let it run a few seconds, but nothing really happened.&nbsp; Not sure what was going to come next or if I would even be able to boot, I just did a hard restart and booted normally.&nbsp; Are you saying to launch Recovery, then cancel out?&nbsp; How exactly am I supposed to &quot;leave the installer ... and ... &quot;go to Utilities&quot; ... I would expect that once the installer starts it will start an OS install.&nbsp; My experience has been that once that type of process begins there's kind of &quot;no going back&quot; (hence my cancel out since I was not prepared for a 3 hour tour).Can you be more specific?&nbsp; Also, if I really have the opportunity to reinstall the OS, why not just end this pain and go for it instead of wasting more time in DU?&nbsp; Towards that end, how am I supposed to use this recovery partition to get a functioning OS again?&nbsp; Is it going to install something 18 months old then I do 57 updates to come up to speed, like Win-Doze does it?Tnx, Paul</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lindycorp, post: 1648264, member: 346604"] Eureka, when I held down Option and rebooted, it actually did find a Recovery disc. I got the option to boot from a recovery disk titled 10.10.recovery or something similar, or the regular Macintosh disk. I was so fascinated I clicked on Recovery, let it run a few seconds, but nothing really happened. Not sure what was going to come next or if I would even be able to boot, I just did a hard restart and booted normally. Are you saying to launch Recovery, then cancel out? How exactly am I supposed to "leave the installer ... and ... "go to Utilities" ... I would expect that once the installer starts it will start an OS install. My experience has been that once that type of process begins there's kind of "no going back" (hence my cancel out since I was not prepared for a 3 hour tour). Can you be more specific? Also, if I really have the opportunity to reinstall the OS, why not just end this pain and go for it instead of wasting more time in DU? Towards that end, how am I supposed to use this recovery partition to get a functioning OS again? Is it going to install something 18 months old then I do 57 updates to come up to speed, like Win-Doze does it? Tnx, Paul [/QUOTE]

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