Re: Recovery particion

2014-01-12 Thread John Panarese
The problem is when you do a clone, the recovery partition is not cloned. Try holding the option key down at startup and hit the right arrow key and then enter. Make sure the external drive is not connected when you do this. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631)

Re: Recovery particion

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Ring
I do have a back up drive, I decided to do a smart update using super duper just a few hours ago. I actually just did a restore from that drive which is a passport for Mac. Now, I can’t even turn VO on when attempt to access the recovery partition using command r at start up. You can have an o

Re: Recovery particion

2014-01-12 Thread John Panarese
Did you do a disk verification first? Do you have a back up system drive you can boot form to try running disk utility from it? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SU

Re: Recovery particion

2014-01-12 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey Richard. Sounds like you may have to reformat your computer. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 12, 2014, at 14:44, Richard Ring wrote: > > I restarted my Mac in order to repair permissions. I could not do this, as > the button was dimmed. I then tried to repair the disk. I was informed that >