{"id":36605,"date":"2016-06-06T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=36605"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T16:22:29","slug":"rocket-yard-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-about-os-x-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/36605-rocket-yard-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-about-os-x-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Yard Guide: Everything You Need to Know About OS X Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36631\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36631\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636.jpg\" alt=\"OS X Utilities available in Recovery Mode\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636.jpg 640w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636-160x120.png 160w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636-284x213.png 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636-190x143.png 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636-160x120@2x.png 320w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636-284x213@2x.png 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-e1465093921636-190x143@2x.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>OS X Utilities available in Recovery Mode<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On rare occasions, powering up\u00a0your Mac may result in&#8230;problems. Rather than watching OS X load and present you with the familiar login screen, you may watch your Mac reboot itself repeatedly, display an error message, or prompt you to select a\u00a0startup disk. If forcing your Mac to power down (holding the power button down for 10 seconds or so), then re-trying the startup doesn&#8217;t work, then it may be time to try re-installing OS X.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Apple makes it quite easy to attempt to fix a problem or re-install OS X through <b>OS X Recovery.\u00a0<\/b>This useful capability provides four major functions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides a way to restore a Mac from a Time Machine backup<\/li>\n<li>Allows verification and repair of drives using Disk Utility<\/li>\n<li>Troubleshoots Internet connections and opens the door to using Safari to get online help<\/li>\n<li>Installation\/re-installation of OS X<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Invoking OS X Recovery or OS X Internet Recovery<\/strong><br \/>\nTo bring up OS X Recovery on your Mac, hold down the Command and R keys simultaneously while powering up your Mac or restarting it. Hold the keys down until the Apple logo appears on the screen; at this point, you can remove your hands from the keyboard and wait until you see a Utilities window outlining the options seen in the image above. If your Mac shows the standard login screen or something other than the OS X Utilities listing, you may not have held down the Command and R keys long enough. Restart your Mac from the Apple menu and try again.<\/p>\n<p>Now usually OS X Recovery is launched from a partition on your hard drive referred to as the Recovery Partition. But what if you&#8217;ve just replaced your drive with a new one, or if your startup drive has a problem? In that case, the Mac attempts to start up from Apple&#8217;s servers in what is known as an OS X Internet Recovery. This requires an Internet connection, and the Mac prompts users to select a Wi-Fi network and enter a password to connect.\u00a0OS X Internet Recovery is only available for Macs running OS X Lion (10.7) or later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Installing or Re-installing OS X<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile running Disk Utility (one of the functions of OS X Recovery) can be useful for determining whether there&#8217;s a problem with a drive or for formatting or partitioning a drive, OS X Recovery is most often used for installing OS X on a bare drive or re-installing it on a Mac that&#8217;s having startup issues.<\/p>\n<p>When using OS X Recovery or OS X Internet Recovery to reinstall the operating system, you must be connected to the Internet since the appropriate version of OS X is downloaded to the Mac prior to the start of the installation. Either an Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection is required; in either case, your Mac must be using DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to capture an IP address. DHCP is a common default setting for networks as it allows computers to &#8220;grab&#8221; an address as needed, so no changes should be required.<\/p>\n<p>Once the network connection is established, what version of OS X is going to be installed? Don&#8217;t assume that it&#8217;s going to be the latest version, as it may not run on older Macs and it also depends on whether you&#8217;re using OS X Recovery or OS X Internet Recovery.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are using OS X Recovery from the Recovery Partition on a Mac to reinstall the operating system, the most recent version of OS X previously installed on the machine will be reinstalled. For example, if your three-year-old Mac is currently running OS X El Capitan 10.11.5, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to be re-installed on the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>If OS X Internet Recovery is being used to reinstall OS X, then the version of OS X that originally came with the computer will be installed. After the Mac has been rebooted after the initial install, subsequent updates can be reinstalled from the Mac App Store. As an example, if that three-year-old Mac happens came with OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) originally, that&#8217;s what will be installed. You&#8217;ll then need to use the Mac App Store to OS X El Capitan, or in some cases, may need to install an interim update before jumping to El Capitan.<\/p>\n<p>How long will it take to reinstall OS X? It depends on several factors; the speed of the Internet connection being used, the processor speed and storage type (<a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/ssd\/owc\">SSD<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/internal_storage\/hard_drives_and_SSD?_ga=1.165246969.797027007.1335192640\">HDD<\/a>) installed in the system, and the version of OS X being installed. If it&#8217;s necessary to install updates after the initial operating system installation, that takes additional time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Restoring A Mac From A Time Machine Backup<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-33868\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TimeMachineIcon-284x284.png\" alt=\"TimeMachineIcon\" width=\"284\" height=\"284\" \/>One of the wonderful features of OS X Recovery and OS X Internet Recovery is the ability to restore a Mac from a Time Machine backup. Those of us at The Rocket Yard are constantly encouraging readers to make backups, and if you&#8217;ve followed our advice to buy an external disk drive such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/firewire\/1394\/USB\/EliteAL\/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB\" target=\"_blank\">OWC Mercury Elite Pro<\/a>, connect it to your Mac, and let the Mac use it as a Time Machine backup device, you&#8217;re in luck.<\/p>\n<p>With your Mac shut off, connect the Time Machine backup drive to the device and make sure it is powered up. If the drive is bus-powered (receiving power from the Mac instead of from its own AC adapter), just turn on the Mac and be sure to hold down Command-R during boot up until the OS X Recovery menu appears.<\/p>\n<p>From the OS X Recovery or OS X Internet Recovery menu, select &#8220;Restore from a Time Machine Backup&#8221;. Click Continue, and then select the Time Machine backup external drive, Apple Time Capsule, or network backup drive that the Time Machine backup is stored on. For the first option (external drive), click Continue; for the Time Capsule or other network backup drive, click Connect to Remote Disk.<\/p>\n<p>You may be prompted to enter a user name and password; if so, enter those items. Finally, just select the time and date of the backup you wish to restore (it may be the most recent backup, or if a failed software installation is the cause of your troubles, you might want to go back a few days), and then follow the onscreen instructions to complete your restore.<\/p>\n<p>Note that once the Mac has completed the restoration and reverts to a normal Time Machine backup schedule, it will attempt to complete a full &#8212; and new &#8212; backup of the Mac to your Time Machine drive.<\/p>\n<p><b>Things to Watch Out For<\/b><br \/>\nThere are a couple of other things to watch out for when using OS X Recovery to reinstall OS X. The first might happen with certain drive partition configurations, and will result in a message stating that a Recovery\u00a0system cannot be created on a drive. In this situation, quit the installation and then do a full installation onto an external drive\u00a0first. Once OS X has been installed onto that drive with a Recovery\u00a0partition, you&#8217;ll be able to boot from it, then install OS X onto the internal drive using OS X Recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Next, if you wish to use Apple&#8217;s FileVault full disk encryption on a drive, OS X Recovery <i>must<\/i> be installed on it. However, some RAID configurations or non-standard Boot Camp partitions may prevent the local Recovery system from being installed &#8212; and that will ruin your day for using FileVault. In these cases, use Apple&#8217;s Disk Utility to create a properly set up RAID configuration, contact the RAID device manufacturer for support, or try creating a new Boot Camp partition using the defaults provided by Apple.<\/p>\n<p><b>OS X Recovery is &#8216;Like Magic&#8217;<\/b><br \/>\nFor those of us who have been around since the first days of the Mac, being able to reinstall the operating system, perform a disk check, connect to the Internet to look up troubleshooting information, or recover a Mac from a Time Machine backup is like magic. In the pre-OS X days, using a pile of floppy disks to reinstall the operating system was not uncommon, and even after the debut of OS X, doing slow installations from a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM was quite common.<\/p>\n<p>Hats off to Apple&#8217;s engineers over the years for making their operating system so stable and trouble-free, and for creating a method of easily fixing issues when they do occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On rare occasions, powering up\u00a0your Mac may result in&#8230;problems. Rather than watching OS X load and present you with the familiar login screen, you may watch your Mac reboot itself repeatedly, display an error message, or prompt you to select a\u00a0startup disk. 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