Beginning with 10.7 Lion, Apple stopped distribution of OS X through the usual DVD optical media. Being the first OS deployed specifically through the Mac App Store, a recovery partition was created ...

Installing OS X Lion sets up a hidden recovery partition on most systems, but if for some reason this is missing, then there are some options for restoring or otherwise using the functions this ...

Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...

Reader Kai Peterson installed a copy of Yosemite but seems to be missing something. He writes: I installed a clean copy of Yosemite on an external hard drive, which I cloned to another Mac using the ...