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Installing a new SSD? Copy your Recovery HD to a new disk

New MacBook, installed a SSD. Here's how to copy over your main Lion partition and your recovery partition.
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MacGeeksCom
December 2011
In simple list form. Feel free to ask questions; going for beviety rather than an extremely long tutorial. Yes, I'm lazy.
  1. Use Carbon Copy Cloner or something similiar to clone your boot disk to your new drive.
  2. Enable the Debug menu in Disk Utility. Terminal:defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool YES
  3. Make an image of the Recovery partition.
  4. Create a partition on your new drive for 1GB. Disk Utility won't allow anything smaller.
  5. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to "Restore from Backup" the Recovery parittion image. (Use the cog near Source to select a Disk Image rather than an actual drive.)
  6. Run a few terminal commands:
    1. Find the Recovery HD partition with: diskutil list
    2. Resize the volume down to 650MB: sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s3 650002432B
    3. Adjust the partition type: sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s3 -settype "Apple_Boot"
    4. Note "disk0s3" should be the disk for your Recovery partition listed in diskutil

 

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