Cult of Mac

Mac OS X Lion Adds Recovery Partition Support [Gallery]

Mac OS X Lion recovery partition. Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion adds support for a recovery partition as part of the OS installation and while this may not seem important to most users — it is. Apple is ...
CNET

FileVault requires Recovery HD partition in OS X

Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...
TechRepublic

Forgot your Mac password? 3 ways to unlock startup disks encrypted with Apple’s FileVault

Forgot your Mac password? 3 ways to unlock startup disks encrypted with Apple’s FileVault Your email has been sent If you forget your Mac's login account password ...
Macworld

Hands on with Mountain Lion’s OS X Recovery and Internet Recovery

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 ...
Tidbits

An M1 Mac Can’t Boot from an External Drive If Its Internal Drive Is Dead

Bombich Software recently updated Carbon Copy Cloner to version 6, and its founder, Mike Bombich, posted a blog entry explaining some of the intricacies involved with updating cloning software for Big ...