Jan152012

How do I make a Mac OS X Lion recovery disc?

jason asks:

Mac OS X Lion crashed on my PC and I don’t have the disk anymore. How do I make a Lion OS X recovery disk with a PC and use it to fix my iMac?


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  • Mulder January 15, 2012

    Without access to the Lion recovery partition on the hard drive, it can’t be done. But you can purchase a recovery USB drive from Apple for $69.

    https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433

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  • Mike January 15, 2012

    The Lion installation automatically created a Recovery partition you can boot from: Turn on the Mac and keep holding cmd + R to boot into the recovery mode.

    If this partition is no longer existent or accessible you will have to get a Installation DVD or USB stick (either via the Apple store or from someone who already got one) 

    If you have access to another Lion system you can create a Recovery media using the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant.

    If you have a recent iMac model (2011, shipping with Lion) the Lion Internet Recovery is included within the firmware and will start if the “cmd + R” method fails.

    * All methods require a working Internet connection either wired or via WPA/WPA2 WiFi!

    You can read more about all option here:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

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