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 ...

First of all, thanks to the Ars community ~ I've been a lurker for a while and this is my first post. I recently bought a laptop for a relative ~ an ASUS X200CA; a low-end affair, yes, but he's ...

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 ...

Apple Software Restore lets you clone your Mac even with a Signed System Volume. Here's how to use it to copy your Mac's storage. For a variety of reasons, you may want to make a clone of your Startup ...