On Sep 21, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: > >> On Sep 20, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> >>> Thanks, Steve. An error was found. However, when I do command-R the only >>> thing that happens is that a Finder window opens with the hard disk >>> selected. I have a MacBook Air, so the hard drive is an SSD. >> >> The fact that the boot volume is physically an SSD isn't relevant. >> >> What the lack of an recovery disk choice means is that the operating system >> was cloned to this volume, it wasn't installed from an OS X "Lion" or later >> installer, and the hidden recovery partition was not created. The easiet way >> to solve that and install a recovery partition is to download the OS X >> installer from the Mac App Store and reinstall the operating system—it will >> automatically create the hidden recovery partition. > > I reinstalled the OS. It seems a recovery partition was not created. At least > when I do command-R after running disk utility, verifying the disk, and > finding that the disk is corrupt, I get the same result as before: A finder > window opens and nothing else happens. I held command-R down for at least a > minute and a half. Could it be that that is not long enough? My bad. I didn’t understand the instructions, even as given by disk utility. I didn’t realize command-r was to be held down while/after restarting the computer. Probably there was a recovery partition there all along. In any case, I was able to run repair disk and the disk was repaired successfully. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
