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Who I Am
My name is Chris Silvertooth and am married to my beautiful wife Amy. I also have 3 frenetic boys which keep me very busy when I am not messing with computers or other random projects. I have been working in the computer industry for the last 20 years. I previously worked as a Senior Consultant that was focused on Mac and iOS Integration. I am also certified in Linux and utilize VMware and other Datacenter technologies on a daily basis. I am not a programmer but can cobble together some garbage that meets my goals. I will, if it seems useful, post said garbage to my downloads section.
Certifications:
AWS Solutions Architect
VMware Double VCP Data Center and Network Virtualization
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.8, 10.7, 10.6
Red Hat Certified Technician
Oracle Enterprise Linux Certified Implementation Specialist
MobileIron Certified Administrator
Cheers,
Chris
I have successfully created the Recovery Partition with Recovery Partition Creator 3.7. I can use its features such as Find My Mac and FileVault.
But when I try to start up to Recovery HD by holding Command-R, I get to blank screen with circle logo. Have tried several times. The result is the same.
My mac is MBP 15″ Retina.
Any Suggestion?
Hey man, i don’t know how you did it but your Recovery Partition Creator helped me a lot!
Thank you so much :))
Have a nice day!
Have you tested if this will work with 10.10 Yosemite?
i dont have Mavericks onmy purchase history of mac app store so i am dowloading it from other means, downloaded recovery partition creator from your website.
does that sound good?
As long as it is the installer it should work. I think the mavericks one is called “Install OS X Mavericks.app”
Hi Chris,
Will Recovery Partition Creator work with Yosemite 10.10.2?
It should work as long as you don’t have a core storage volume.
Cheers,
Chris
Hi, I’ve a hard drive, 1tb that’s two partitions now, one Snow Leopard for some apps I need, and the other is Mavericks. I wanted to create a recovery part ion in the Mavericks partition, would the fact that I have two partitions now impact things? I don’t want to loose either one. I just want to carve a little out of the Mavericks partition to make it’s recovery partition.
Thanks in advance!
Multiple partitions should be ok. I have multiple partitions on another mac without a problem.
Thanks!
Your script Recovery Partition Creator 3.8 helped me set up a recovery partition on El Capitan in minutes!
I just used Recovery Partition Creator 3.8 to install recovery partitions on a couple of USB drives, in order to be able to clone (via Super Duper) my computer’s internal drive to them, and make them both encrypted and bootable. Thanks!
I do have a question — my Mac, and the drives, are currently at Mountain Lion (to avoid surprises for other users in the family). I plan to update to El Capitan soon (it’s time …). Can I re-run RPC on the same drives but point to an El Cap installer, and have the OS and/or other things in the recovery partition updated to El Cap? Or if not, can you recommend a procedure that would accomplish the same goal?
Thx again,
— alex
It has been awhile but I think I did that in the past. Though I would not boot to the recovery partition and run any utils as they might be incompatible and cause an issue.
iMac late 2009
I have used your Recovery Partition Creator with El Capitan before and it has worked ok, but after a recent apple update to v 10.11.1 the software is reporting “NOT COMPATIBLE WTH THIS SOFTWARE VERSION”. I hope this information is of use, your software has been a life saver in the past.
John
Thanks for the info. I will take a look at that and see if I can reproduce the error.
Chris
Hey Chris
Thank you many times for this tool, you saved me probably 4 days of reinstalling a bootcamp partition because csrutil was not available with online recovery mode ^^ and SIP blocked my backup
I’m on OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan.
When I try to use “Recovery Partition Creator 4.0.1.app”, I get the following result: “The mainDrive variable is undefined” (“La variable mainDrive n’est pas définie”) and no installation is done.
I chose the correct disk and “Install OS X El Capitan.app”.
Is it possible that this is because I want to make this installation on the startup disk?
Note: The download gives me “Recovery Partition Creator 4.0.1.app” but the info window give me “4.0 – Thursday 5th May 2016 – 4:22 p.m.”
Thank you
Google translation
New version released. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13872235/Musings/Recovery%20Partition%20Creator%204.0.2.zip
Cheers,
Chris
Thank you very much…
But I still have the same problem with “Recovery Partition Creator 4.0.2.app” :
“The mainDrive variable is undefined” (“La variable mainDrive n’est pas définie”) and no installation is done.
Cheers,
Alain
Google translation
I updated to 4.0.3 a few hours ago. Give that one a shot. If you are still having a problem let me know.
Chris
Thank you for your involvement.
Alas! Alas!
With 4.0.3 (Recovery Partition Creator 4.0.3), I still get the same warning: “The mainDrive variable is undefined” (“La variable mainDrive n’est pas définie”) and no installation is done.
Cheers,
Alain
Google translation
Hi, is there a solution for this problem?
my partition scheme looks like:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS OSX 499.8 GB disk0s2
Will be looking at the program next week. Seems Sierra introduced a number of changes that I need to look at.
Thanks,
Chris
Hi Christopher,
I have the same problem that Alain and Peter with the mainDrive variable.
I am using version 4.0.4 on Sierra.
If you need logs or testing a new version, let me know
Hi, Both your 3.8 and 4.04 links to recovery partition creator on dropbox no longer work.
Do you have an updated link to both or can you direct email them to me via email attachment? I have a couple of machines with partitions of snow leopard, 10.11.6 and 10.15 and need a working recovery partition established to disable SIP for further customizations and of course recovery if needed. Thanks in advance. With the best of regards Alan
Here is a new link for it.
https://theredstapler.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/musings/Recovery+Partition+Creator+3.8.zip