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I'm not sure who's down-voting you, but your answer is correct. It is indeed the recovery partition. It includes a compressed lion system tree with Safari.
by fredoliveira 15y ago
I'm not sure who's down-voting you, but your answer is correct. It is indeed the recovery partition. It includes a compressed lion system tree with Safari.
- riffraff 15y agoit should not: "your hard drive has failed or you’ve installed a hard drive without OS X, for example ". I know apple is deceiving, but I can't guess how they would install a recovery partition a new "drive without osx".
- chc 15y agoAh, thank you for calling my attention to that. I had somehow read it to mean "If your boot partition is hosed."
- jevinskie 15y agoIt is not. The page states it works with a blank drive. It is built into the EFI firmware.