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This article will help you create a Mac OS X or macOS recovery USB drive to use in case of disaster or no boot from internal hard drive. Every Mac running OS X Lion and later has a small (650MB) hidden recovery partition called Recovery HD located on your Mac’s internal hard drive which is reserved for common utilities such as Time Machine Backup,Terminal utility, Disk Utility, Hardware Diagnostic tool and other built in set of utilities. Your Mac can be booted from recovery partition by holding the “CMD+R” keys together during boot up. It even has Safari that you can use to. So, following are the major use of recovery partition. • To set or remove firmware password.

• To get help Online using Safari from recovery partition in case of no boot issue. • To recover your data in case of crash or system failure. Why and when should we create a Mac OS X recovery USB drive? Starting from OS X Lion 10.7, Apple stopped shipping DVDs of its operating systems and started offering a built-in recovery partition that is created automatically for you during installation. And those Macs purchased after July 1, 2011 when OS X Lion was released got an additional feature called Internet Recovery, which downloads the essential recovery software contents from internet to network boot your Mac.This becomes handy when your internal Mac’s hard drive is damaged or recovery partition is missing. Though, this is a convenient method but it may take ages to download the essential recovery software to boot from internet if you are connected to a slow internet plan or you do not have an internet access at all. These are the following major reasons, why we should create a Mac recovery USB drive?

• Recovery USB drive works even if your internal hard drive is damaged. It provides you with all the tools you my need to troubleshoot problems, reinstall OS X, repair the hard drive and restore from a Time Machine backup.

• If due to certain circumstances the recovery partition is not created during installation you can use Mac OS X recovery USB drive. • Your Mac’s internal hard drive or Recovery partition is damaged, removed or altered you can still boot from OS X Recovery USB drive. • If your Mac’s internal drive was cloned and the Recovery partition wasn’t copied in the process. • If your computer freezes or crashes more often during boot or does not start at all. This emergency disk (OS X Recovery USB Drive) can help you repair the hard disk and save your data. What do you need to create Mac OS X recovery USB drive? To create your own Mac OS X recovery USB drive, all you need is a 1GB or larger USB drive.

If you have a USB drive larger than 1 GB, you can create a 1.5 GB or 2 GB partition for the recovery drive because the creation process will erase the whole USB drive and use all of the available space no matter how large it is and the drive will become unusable for data storing purposes. Though the recovery partition will use only 650MB but I suggest you making the partition size to 1.5 GB or 2 GB as it also needs room for some hidden system and temporary files otherwise you can just use a whole 4 GB USB drive for the process. Also backup your data from the USB dive before converting it to recovery USB drive. The USB drive should also be formatted in OS X Extended (Journaled) with partition map scheme as GUID. See the post on for more details. • Connect the USB drive to your Mac and open Disk Utility.app from /Applications/Utilities/ folder.

Pom software for mac. • Select the USB drive on the left that shows the capacity and not the Volume which appears indented below the drive. How to create Mac OS X recovery USB drive? • Click on erase button from the top menu bar and make sure the scheme is selected as “GUID Partition Map” and format as “Mac OS Extended(Journaled)” then click on Erase again.Confirm the warning message for data lose. • Click on the partition button from the top menu bar and add the partition just in case you want to create a 2 GB partition for Recovery HD. • One the partition is created and the disk is formatted, it can be used in creating recovery USB drive. Follow the next step.

This is another easier method of creating Mac OS X recovery USB drive wherein we clone ( Duplicate copy) the Mac’s internal recovery system to an external USB drive using the disk utility’s restore feature. In order to clone the existing internal recovery system you will have to mount the internal recovery partition and make it visible in disk utility. To mount and make the internal recovery partition visible you have to first by typing the following command at terminal. > defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1 > killall Finder • After typing the above command quit the disk utility and reopen it and you should see the debug menu at top. • Click on the Debug menu and select ” Show every partition”. • Now select the “Recovery HD” on the left in device list and click Mount from the top menu bar.