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An OS X feature that hides a Recovery HD on Macs to facilitate maintenance, recovery and reinstallation if the OS becomes corrupt. Topic of recovery-mode-ios, data-recovery or file-recovery are unrelated to the recovery category here.

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The command /usr/bin/recoverydiagnose is found when using Terminal in Recovery Mode on a MacBook running macOS 12.6.3 What does it do?
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I was trying to copy a 2011 iMac hard drive to a SSD to use on my M2 Mac mini. I tried to copy it and received errors. I went to disk utility in recovery mode and got an error message that said unable ...
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I used rsync to copy my entire user folder from an older Macbook Air that is failing onto a new Mac, using Recovery Mode's "Share Disk" feature. Now I'm digging through the copy, moving ...
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Currently, my 2018 MacBook Pro 13"(4-Thunderbolt USB-C) Model A1989 with a T2 security chip will not boot, even into Recovery Mode. The closest I can get is to booting is the Apple Logo with a ...
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I am unable to reset password because there is no user account after erase install in recovery terminal. I tried steps before to create a user in terminal but those did not work (so I am not ...
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Trying to recover data from an internal drive that does not startup. I used an external drive to install a bootable mac and see the internal drive listed in disk utility. I cannot seem to access the ...
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I believe I am in quite a lot of trouble, and I am in desperate need for some professional advice. It would mean a lot to me if the good people of this forum can share their expertise with me. My ...
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The phone properly shows the low battery screen when charging, then once it has enough to boot the apple logo appears —although it has some wierd curved lines through it that are hard to get on camera—...
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I have a MacBook Air 2017. Out of the blue, I opened the MacBook and was confronted with the question mark. The Mac would only boot in recovery mode. In internet recovery mode, I copied the internal ...
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I need some help to revive a MacBook Air Retina / Intel, early 2020 (T2 chip). I bought it from the former owner, who did not use it for a year, and the machine did not start anymore. I finally ...
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Currently, my iMac has no active macOS on it. And the Fusion Drive shows up as two volumes. I am trying to come up with ways to fix the Fusion Drive, install macOS on it(but then how to make Fusion ...
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My questions are: How can I delete the 5.5GB Apple Recovery partition? Any massive reasons why I should not delete it? Why I want to delete it: My (M2 Air) has a fat ~5.5GB partition for "...
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I have a SanDisk 2TB SSD which I had partitioned with GUID PT in roughly (as I remember) NTFS: 250GB APFS: 1TB exFAT: 750GB While connected to an android device I was trying to format only the exFAT ...
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I can boot my old MacBook Air A1370 neither from Mavericks nor from High Sierra bootable installation USB sticks. Unfortunately I have no other Mac at hand so I can not check if they are really ...
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I'd like to try DFU mode for my iPad (A1709) recovery. Background: I was prompted to update iOS and experienced failures with repeated retry attempts. This wasn't a major issue, but I grew tired of ...

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