On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:11 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Michael Winter wrote: > >> We set it up so she can boot from the drive that has her Time Machine backup >> on it. > > > Why? > > Any Macintosh with Lion installed has a recovery partition as part of the > disk formatting.
Because drives fail. A hardware failure can knock out all partitions. A drive replacement, followed by booting from the external drive, repartitioning/formatting, then restore gets you up and running (though I hadn't thought about restoring the recovery partition). Is there a better way? What's the best way to handle a drive replacement in a situation like that (or even if you want a bigger drive)? I haven't checked into the network booting, but I'm hesitant to rely on that. -Mike _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
