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Make A Lion Recovery Drive With Apple's New Tool
Mar 11, 2025
Download the tool at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can use the recovery disc
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assistant utility that Apple just
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released to create a recovery disc from
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a USB hard drive or flash drive so this
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is a new utility that Apple just
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released and it's only about a megabyte
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and here's the download page so to
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download this in instead of following
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this link here I've set up a shortened
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link for you and that is tr. us/ lion
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recovery so all you need is this file as
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well as a flash drive or hard drive with
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at least 1 gigabyte of space on it so
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from there once you download the file
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you can see right here the recovery dis
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assistant disc image and I'm going to
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open that up and inside it you should
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see the recovery dis assistant
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application
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and then of course you're going to have
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to agree to a license agreement and here
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you can see all the discs that are
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available for you to use now just a word
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of warning uh as it says right here any
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information on the selected disk will be
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erased so I'm just going to choose the 2
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GB flash drive that I installed and
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you're going to want to make sure it's
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in the correct format before you do this
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and I found that you have to have it in
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the Mac OS extended Journal format in
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order for this to work
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so to make sure that you have it in that
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format you can just go into your
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applications folder and into
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utilities and from there you can go to
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Disk
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Utility and in dis utility you're going
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to want to select your disk and just
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because there'll be nothing on it
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anyways you can go right ahead and erase
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it using the format Mac OS extended
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Journal if you choose something like MS
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DOS fat you're not going to get it to
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work for you and you're going to get an
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error message so from there I'm just
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going to choose this dis and I'm going
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to have to enter my password in and now
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it's going to create recovery disc this
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is just going to take a couple minutes
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it shouldn't take too long now one other
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thing to note when you plug this flash
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drive into your computer after the dis
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is created you're not going to see
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anything come up unless you go into Disk
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Utility this is because now it is a
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recovery dis and and the files in it are
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not accessible unless you start it up as
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the main dis as I'll show you in a
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minute so now you can see here that the
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Mac OS 10 line recovery Drive was
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created successfully and it says here
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gives you some instructions to use the
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recovery disc connect the USB drive with
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the recovery disc restart your computer
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while holding down the option key and
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then select the recovery disc I'm going
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to show you how to do that now uh but
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what I wanted to say is the main point
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of this disc is not just to have a flat
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FL Drive laying around with this on it
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but as if your internal hard drive would
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fail you would not be able to access the
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recovery partition that is built onto
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the disc so this is kind of just a
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safeguard in case that would happen so
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I'll show you how to start it up from
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this disc so I have the finished USB
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drive inserted into my computer at this
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point and my computer is off and what
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I'm going to do is I'm going to turn
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that back on my computer and then hold
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down the option key so I'm going to wait
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for the startup time then hold down the
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option key otherwise it won't recognize
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the key
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press so now you'll see this menu come
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up and here you can see the drives that
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are connected to your computer so I have
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the Macintosh HD which is my main
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internal hard drive then the recovery HD
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partition that's automatically installed
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with lion and then last here here's my
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external recovery HD drive so I'm just
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going to use my arrow keys to select it
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and hit enter to load it so the recovery
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partition will boot for a little while
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and at then you should see this menu
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which gives you a couple different
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options restoring from a time machine
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backup reinstalling OS 10 getting help
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online or going to Disk Utility you also
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get the typical utilities that you'd get
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on an install CD such as the firmware
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password utility Network utility and
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terminal so there you go that's how you
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can use the new lion recovery disc
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assistant to make yourself a bootable
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flash drive that boots into the recovery
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software so that you can reinstall Mac
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OS 10 and as always if you have any
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questions about Mac or iOS please send
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me an email and I'll try to do a video
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howto on them as soon as I can I hope
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you found this video useful and thank
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you for watching
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