Apple Releases Utility to Make External Lion Recovery Partitions

Apple has released the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a utility that lets you create a Lion Recovery partition on a USB key or external hard drive.

The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari. This drive can be used in the event you cannot start your computer with the built-in Recovery HD, or you have replaced the hard drive with a new one that does not have Mac OS X installed.

How to use Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
● The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant will erase all data on the external drive when creating the Recovery HD. You should either backup your data before running the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, or create a new partition on the external drive.


● Open Lion Recovery Disk Assistant and follow the on screen instructions to create a Recovery HD on the external drive.

● When the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant completes, the new partition will not be visible in the Finder or Disk Utility. To access the external Recovery HD, connect the drive, then restart the computer and hold the Option key. Select Recovery HD from the Startup Manager.

You can download the utility from the link below...

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