- #Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 mac os x#
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- #Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 full#
That’s a day lost and the cost of travel.Īnd, lets face it Apple Macs are not cheap (compared to PC laptops).Īpple is good, I wouldn’t use it otherwise. Their advice = to go back to the Apple Centre and ask them to fix it. This weekend (Feb 2012) I bought a new Macbook Pro.Īpple help desk was professional but talking me through the OS X Lion reinstall I did not get the same messages as expected (in my case, the choice of language options). I live some distance (300 km +) from an Apple Centre, its a day trip there and back. I switched to mac in 2007 since when so have all my family (six users). Interesting to see so many opinions and, separately, facts.
#Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 mac os x#
Usually, there won’t be any problems with the Mac OS X upgrade, but “bad things” CAN happen, even random stuff such as a power outage occurring in the middle of your Lion installation (or maybe your cat stepping on the switch of your Mac’s power strip).
#Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 full#
Time Machine backup is fine it’s not bootable like a clone, but it can be used to do a full volume restore (or as your source for user data after a clean install).
#Lion recovery disk assistant 1.0 install#
However, I did not say it was the easiest way to do a clean install of Lion, IF already making a clone of the 10.6.8 system for backup purposes.ĮVERYONE – Please DO make a backup before doing something major such as upgrading Snow Leopard to Lion. In my previous post, I was pointing out that Apple DOES provide a way to do a clean install of Lion (which does not involve burning a DVD). After starting up from Lion, use either clone backup or Time Machine backup as source for your user data migration. Run Lion Installer and target just erased internal drive volume. Run Disk Utility and erase internal drive volume. Download Lion Installer from Mac App Store. It should feel just like booting from internal drive. So I have a better way to do a clean install (if I want to do it instead of just upgrading).Īfter cloning to external drive, boot from clone. I plan to make a clone (to an external drive) of my internal 10.6.8 startup volume AS A BACKUP (just before downloading Lion Installer from Mac App Store), in addition to my ongoing Time Machine backup. If everything is working to your satisfaction, there is no need to do the clean install.
Of course, after step (2), you can use the Lion installation for a while. Clean install done… restart into Lion and do the data migration steps as desired. This is the step that downloads from Apple’s server. (5) Run Installer to install Lion on the volume you just erased. Run Disk Utility to erase the main startup volume. (4) At this point, it’s like booting from the DVD installation disc, except much faster because it’s not an optical drive. (3) Restart with the Option key held down to get Startup Manager, or use Cmd-R, to start up using Recovery HD. (1) Start with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed on internal HD, which you will need to back up with Time Machine or clone to preserve your data. You CAN do a clean install without a DVD installer disc, because the Lion Installer creates a small hidden bootable partition called Recovery HD, which is used in “Recovery Mode.” Here are the steps, which I believe will work.
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