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Ok so after a bit of digging, i found the following. I do indeed have a recovery HD partition installed but it doesn't appear in the boot menu when you click the option key at boot. I can however access the recovery partition at boot if i press on Command + R. Prior to that i did a terminal command check to see if the partition was installed with the OS in the first place or not. Here is a screen shot of the result.
I obviously have a recovery partition and i can access it, but why did Apple disable it from appearing in the boot menu? Geegeeman77 wrote: Yes, I've been wondering the same thing. On Apple's website here, it says that Command-R activates the recovery partition but the version of OS X that came with your computer. However, Command-R boots into the El Capitan recovery disk. Is there a reason? Or is there a way to revert this? Thanks for this thread.
Now I know how to access the recovery partition as in the past holding down the option key was the ticket. Not sure I understand the above question but it would make sense that the El Capitan recovery command will boot you into El Capitan recovery 'disk'. There is no way to 'revert' this. If you would like to format an earlier version of OS X you will have to do it from a bootable USB drive-perhaps one that you made in the past. My apologies for not being clear! I looked into it further, and it seems Apple changed things around since El Capitan. It seems that entering the Recovery Partition is now by just using the shortcut Command-R (which used to be Internet Recovery).
Internet Recovery changed to Command-Option-R. It seems Apple disabled entering the Recovery Partition from the Startup Manager (holding down the Option key at boot). How peculiar. I was just confused about Recovery vs. Internet Recovery. In the past before El Capitan, you entered Internet Recovery through Command-R, and the Recovery Mode it entered was the version of OS X that came with your computer (for example, if you bought your Mac with Mountain Lion, and you updated to Yosemite, Internet Recovery would be the Mountain Lion version of recovery).
I hope I made that clearer, but I suppose it is a little difficult to explain without actually showing it, heh. Apple hasn't changed any of its boot-up key combos for years. Internet Recovery has always been and still is CMD+OPTION+R. Local Recovery has always been and still is OPTION+R. Accessing the local recovery system via OPTION has always worked and still does. All of the above is true for OS X up until and including 10.11.2. If your system doesn't work that way you might have an underlying issue with your installation.
If you don't have a recovery partition on your system disk, CMD+R would start the Internet Recovery instead. Geegeeman77 wrote: Oh!
My apologies for not being clear! I looked into it further, and it seems Apple changed things around since El Capitan.
It seems that entering the Recovery Partition is now by just using the shortcut Command-R (which used to be Internet Recovery). Internet Recovery changed to Command-Option-R.
It seems Apple disabled entering the Recovery Partition from the Startup Manager (holding down the Option key at boot). How peculiar. I was just confused about Recovery vs. Internet Recovery.
In the past before El Capitan, you entered Internet Recovery through Command-R, and the Recovery Mode it entered was the version of OS X that came with your computer (for example, if you bought your Mac with Mountain Lion, and you updated to Yosemite, Internet Recovery would be the Mountain Lion version of recovery). I hope I made that clearer, but I suppose it is a little difficult to explain without actually showing it, heh. I did a test and internet recovery for me is indeed Command Option-R. The only thing I don't see that Bigshwabel stated is that I cannot access local recovery with just holding down the option key when booting up.
El Captain is fully updated, so is their a process to recover it, or a direction I can go to get it? If your Mac is from 2010. or later, it can use Internet Recovery. Use Cmd-Opt-R and it will try to boot from Apple's servers. If you reinstall El Capitan from that, it may recreate the Recovery partition. Now, if you are trying cmd-R and nothing happens, then it may be that your Mac isn't capable of Internet Recovery. In that case, you must 'recover' from your original installation DVDs that shipped with that Mac.The list of Macs from that era capable of Internet Recovery are listed in this document.
If yours is in that list, then you would have had to install a firmware update to enable Internet Recovery. Anything built after those Macs have Internet Recovery built-in.
Barney, Thank you for your reply, and it looks like I have to install El Captain all over again as I have a 2007/2008. It got deleted got accidentally deleted using the old disk utility as it cannot see it.
I was trying to modify the disk partition, and the new disk utility does not has the power of the old one, andddd to top it off one has to disable the SIP using terminal in the El Captain recovery partition to install a Win-clone partition backup on an older Apple like mine. Thank you for your Help Martin. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.