If your Recovery HD partition in OS X Lion is missing or not working, then it may be easy to get working with just a few steps. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

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 ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion.] Apple this week released a free utility called Lion Recovery Disk Assistant that provides an easy ...

A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion ...

The Recovery Partition does not have a drive letter. Therefore, it is not visible in the File Explorer. You can view it in the Disk Management app. However, some users found the Recovery Partition ...