OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Stop Recovery Disk Assistant From Downloading
Apr 22, 2012
Since I planned to upgrade the stock disk on my macbook pro I created a USB stick backup of the Lion OS using Lion recovery disk assistant. It built a bootable copy of my Lion OS. I replaced the drive, booted from the USB stick Lion, formatted the new drive with disk utility with one OSX partition, and bunch of Linux partitions for the planned dual/triple/etc. boot. I then used the recovery disk menu to reinstall OSX on the new disk. It took off and started the download just like while booting with R key or from the recovery partition AGAIN!. This is a 2 hour proposition and is totally ridiculous. I need to be able to reinstall without downloading Lion every time. how to stop this new Apple invention from doing this download?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jun 22, 2012
I have a MBP mid-2010, originally with Snow Leopard, but long since running Lion (currently the latest release, 10.7.4). When I installed Lion, I created a recovery partition on the MBP's boot disk. This was about 9 months ago. I now want to run Recovery Disk Assistant to create a recovery partition on an external disk, but when I start Recovery Disk Assistant it says: "Lion recovery could not be created"... because the recovery HD on this computer is damaged or not present...etc.
However, if I open a Terminal and run "Diskutil list", I see:
[Code]....
So, the recovery partition appears to be there. I presume Recovery Disk Assistant thinks it's damanged. However, I can hold down Alt/Option when booting my MBP and I see the recovery partition. I can even boot from the recovery partition and everything works as expected.
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MacBook Pro, mid-2010 MBP running Mac OS 10.7.4
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Feb 6, 2012
I have a user with a new 13" MacBook Pro, which got rather misconfiguration during intial setup. We thought it might be easiest to erase and start afresh, so I booted into the Lion recovery partition. Firstly, tried to customise the Lion installation as per previous versions, but the 'Customise' choice is greyed out. Ok, no Erase and Reinstall option then. In Disk Utility, I erased the partition, and renamed it something sensible (UserHD). Back to the install, all proceeded correctly until it tried downloading files from Apple. At this point, the progress bar moved slowly across, until it reached the end and I was presented with an error message along the lines that it failed to download additional components from Apple.
I have tried this four times, with various combinations of Wifi, and wired ethernet connections, all with the same result.Booting into Internet Recovery mode (Cmd-Opt-R) also fails: after an initial moving glode icon, and a small amount of the progress bar, I get the exlcamation mark icon, apple.com/support and error code -2105F The laptop is now unuseable, because we can't restore it.
1: Can I tell it NOT to go to the internet first? Every other OS Installer lets you install first, and then go off to download additional components.
2: I note in the Installer logs that it thinks it's about 8 hours behind local time. Is this a problem (perhaps with SSL cert verification?)
3: Does the download happen over non-standard ports? (eg. something that may be being blocked by our firewall?)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Feb 3, 2012
i went and opened the app store application on my mac pro. i saw the app for downloading Lion 10.7.3. at present i have Lion 10.7.2. so i figured, well, i already purchased Lion, so this upgrade should be free - and i clicked install. it asked for my apple id and password. i entered it - and it began to download Lion 10.7.3.
only then i saw the price tag on the side and thought to myself, "$&#%, what if i'm being charged for this?" so i went and did my "softward update" check. low and behold, waiting for me is 10.7.3.
so here's where i'm at. i have 10.7.3. downloading as an app (potentially i'm PAYING for it!), and i have it "paused" right now. i want to simply install 10.7.3 as an update, which i KNOW IS FREE. but i can't seem to delete the download that's paused right now (which I might be PAYING for).
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 5, 2012
How i can create a dvd/cd recovery disk instead usb?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 11, 2012
I would be interested to know if updating, for example, Lion 10.7.2 to 10.7.3, or 10.7.3 to 10.7.4, also updates the System on the Lion Recovery Disk.
I thought I could find out by booting on the Recovery Disk, but there's no "About this Mac" item in this System's Apple menu.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Core i7, SSD, 12 GB Ram.
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Mar 26, 2012
Has anyone had this problem: I created a Lion Recovery Disk and it erased mounted volume? Can the data be recovered?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), External USB Disk
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Mar 27, 2012
I had an issue with my hard disk on my imac in which I had to re-format and reinstall the OS. Since 10.7 is not available as a "rescue reinstall disk", I had to reinstall 10.6. When that finished, the install asked if I would like to transfer my stuff from Time Machine. I said "yes". Unfortunately, my time machine disk does not show up! Migration Assistant thinks my "macintosh HD" system disk is the only disk available as the time machine backup. So I skipped migration. I went ahead and did all of the OS upgrades to get back to 10.7.3. I re-connected all external disks (I have 4-the time machine disk included) and tried migration assistant again. The only disk migration assistant still thinks is available as the time machine backup is the macintosh HD system disk, not the one called "Time Machine Backup". Time machine backup is a western digital 2TB usb 2.0 disk. I decided this morning to re-do everything again (since I still could not get my data back).the same thing is happening! Migration Assistant thinks that the macintosh HD is the time machine disk and does not see any others - even though the disk is there and mounted!
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iMac, iphone, ipod
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Feb 7, 2012
I installed a new hard drive to expand my disk size for a late 2009 MacBook Pro 15". I used time machine to "clone" the machine to the new drive. However, I noticed while trying to set up Boot Camp that I no longer have a Recovery Disk partition with Lion. How can I set this feature back up on my new hard drive?
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MacPro, Mac OS X (10.6.5), MacBook Pro 10.6.5
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Apr 18, 2012
I purchased my macbook Pro just before Lion was released. How do I create a Boot Recovery Disk?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), i7 4 gigs RAM
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May 22, 2012
i erased the os x but the recovery disk is not working?
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Mar 23, 2012
I am trying to install lion and receive a message saying it can't make a recovery disk. I am using a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. I do have bootcamp on it, but was never able to install Windows.
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iMac (24-inch), Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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Apr 10, 2012
before a week ago i locked my macbook pro from icloud. something bud happened. my mac reboots and starts from recovery disk. the only think came to my mind is to install snow leopard from my installation disk(came with laptop) and then install lion.this is something i have done before and works ok.when snow leopard had succefully install i open app store and download my allready purchace mac os lion. when dowload finished i install it and nothing went ok. it puts me again to the recovery page and says re-install lion or online help etc. the only think that i could do is to delete recovery hd and install lion.when i did this it works but my software doesn't work right and find my mac not works.
i create again by myshelf a recovery hd drive and when i restart the laptop it opens from there not from os lion. so i open the terminal using my snow leopard disk and delete the recovery hd again.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 27, 2012
Lion Recovery HD is suddenly showing up in Finder (Sidebar & Desktop), also in Disk Utility.What is going on? I don't want it to show up.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 17, 2012
I have university work I need to complete tomorrow. Machine is a 13" MacBook Pro with Bootcamp and windows 7 installed but the problem is on the Mac partition sequence of events:-I was using MS Word for Mac when it crashed as being unable to write to the disk.I went to utilities and ran a verify permissions - failures were found - one marked as not repairable I ran repair permissions - it repaired all but one I ran verify disk - it said it there was an error which could not be repaired - reformat the drive a restore from backup I have full time machine backup so thought no problem I shut down the machine and restarted using Cmd R and went to disk utilities - no "format disk" option.Browse on internet finds I have to delete the "Macintosh HD" partition - re- create it and restore - ok Find I cannot delete the partition because it cannot unmount the drive - because I have booted from the recovery partition which is on that drive - catch 22 Try to boot from original Snow Leopard disk - LION wont let you do it Read some more on Internet and find I can boot from the Lion Revovery HD on a USB Only way of getting it is to download it or create it using the machine I want to recover - but that machine won't boot in OS X ?...Tried the Lion Internet install but it simply fails with an " error occurred please try again.how I can get a recovery USB written in order to externally boot my Mac and recover it ?
I have available:-
Wifi
USB drives
Time machine backup on external USB drive
IPad
windows available on the MacBook
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Jun 25, 2012
I am trying to reinstall lion on my 2012 13' Macbook Pro, but when I press the option key I do not see the option for Recovery. I recently changed the Hard Drive. Is it only something you can do with the original Hard Drive that came with the computer?
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MacBook Pro
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Apr 4, 2012
I am trying to make a redundant backup image of my harddrive using something OTHER than Time Machine. I booted to recovery because you image from a disk you are booted from. The restore took 2 hours, and indicated the entire time in disk utility that it was restoring "Mac HD" to a similarly sized partition on my external hard drive. When it was done, the external had a copy of my recovery drive on it. That's crazy talk.
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Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iMac 24" used at work
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May 24, 2012
I have no recovery disk at boot since I upgraded from Snow Leopard through app store?
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80 iMacs 30 MacBook Pro's 40 iTouch, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 18, 2012
Myself and a friend who are both currently deployed overseas and without a internet connection capable of downloading a OS through the recovery who both had lion come on our macs are curious if its possible to do make a recovery off of my computer to recover his being his time machine is at home back in the states with no way of it getting out here.
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Aug 20, 2009
eveytime i log on the HP setup assistant come on! it asks me to continue, i do, it says select ur printer, and nothing comes up.....so therefore i canot go to next step. My printer works fine and i have it connected to my time machine.
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Jun 6, 2012
I am trying to do a command line / automated installation of Lion. I would like to know how to restore InstallESD.dmg or OSInstall.mpkg to a blank partition without the Install assistant. I would also like to know how to bypass the setup assistant after reboot.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 23, 2012
My wife just got a brand new MacBook Air last night.She started to set it up and ran the Migration Assistant from her old first-gen MacBook Air.Wirelessly.Suffice to say she still has 162 hours to go and it didn't improve at all overnight.What are my options for stopping the transfer safely without harming either computer and then getting the new one safely up and running?Can I just "pull the plug" (and how do I do that IBM guy here so Macs are greek to me).Will I need to restore the new machine and can I even do that when it was brand new out of the box?
Her old MacBook Air had some issues with printing, Firefox, etc.Should I do a more select file transfer from old to new to avoid transferring corrupted files?Not sure how "deep" the migration assistant goes.
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MacBook Air
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Sep 12, 2014
Macbook Pro running on OSX Mavericks is having problems.
Today I turned my Mac on, and it started up with a loading wheel and a loading bar. When the loading bar finished, the Mac turned itself off. I tried many times, same happened every time. I then went into OSX Recovery, started repairing Macintosh HD, but the error message saying "Disk Utility can't repair Macintosh HD" came up and now I don't now what to do.
Is there any way I can back up my files in this situation? Is there any way I can repair the disk without having to erase all data and reinstalling OSX? Or do I really need to bring it to a Apple Store for repair?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Oct 6, 2007
with my G5 I need to get a new hard drive since the old one died. to format the new hard drive do I need a start up disk or a recovery disk.
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PowerMac G5
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Dual Core 2.0 2x 256 Ram
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Apr 10, 2009
Next year when snow leopard will be released I was thinking to upgrade my poor 60gb hard disk to something more probably to a 320 one, but I got one problem I lost my recovery disk and actually I don't really need it as you know Tiger is very stable.
When my old macbook will have inside the new hard disk do I need to reinstall tiger then upgrade it to snow leopard or I can directly install snow leopard?
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Aug 29, 2014
I wanted to do a clean install and repartition my iMac running 10.8. It has 2 partitions. I booted from the recovery disk, went to Disk Utility and erased the two partitions. However, when I tried to change to a single partition got the error message "cannot unmount disk."
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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May 31, 2005
When I surf the web, I click on interesting links every once and a while, sometimes they end up being files and Safari automatically downloads it, how do I make it ask me before it goes downloading wildly?
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Jul 7, 2009
What is this and how can I make it stop???
There seems to be no rhyme or reason for it, they just download from safari.
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Feb 15, 2010
I need some help with the mail program on my MBP. For some reason this morning it has decided to keep getting the same emails over and over again and adding them as new. So now I am up to 3000 new emails even though I have already read and deleted them before. Every time I click for it to check for new mail it just downloads the old ones three and four times. How can I get it to stop downloading them again?
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Mar 3, 2012
I have just tried to downoad Xcode, first it wont download, second I can't undo or delete it because its basically downloading.
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I have Macbook pro
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