Michael Winter <[email protected]> squawked out on Monday 12-Sep-2011@17:44:01 > > On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:11 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > >> On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Michael Winter wrote: >> >> >> >> Why? >> >> Any Macintosh with Lion installed has a recovery partition as part of the >> disk formatting. > > Because drives fail. A hardware failure can knock out all partitions.
You said this was a brand new Mac? Those have the recovery partition in firmware. They can boot with a completely unreadable disk and reformat it and try to reinstall the OS. Or recover from a Time Machine partition. -- 'Begone From This Place Or I Will Smite Thee!' he [the god] commanded. 'Why?' _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
