Hi, Yes, you likely have affected the Recovery Partition. Try starting with cmd-option-r which should start up from Apple’s servers. It may take a little longer to boot up, but you should be able to install from there.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:30, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, A quick question on clean installing OS X. I wanted to clean install before putting Yosemite on my Macbook Air. I made a bootable drive, booted into the recovery partition by holding down command+R then pressing command+F5 until Voiceover started up and I could format the Macintosh HD. I clicked on the size, (128 GB Apple SSD), and chose to erase it. Could it be possible that I've inadvertently erased the recovery partition? As I then went back to the utilities table, chose to re-install OS X, which turned out to be Mavericks. As I didn't wish to install this version, I shut down the computer, restarted it and attempted to get back into recovery mode, but no dice this time. I'm unable to get VO to start, and even accessing the boot menyu with the option key and pressing right arrow once or twice and pressing enter to boot from the external media is a no-go. I've read several archives from this list that say to wait different amounts of time before attempting to start Voiceover in the recovery partition, and none have worked. I understand this partition is hidden, but I wonder if by clicking on, and erasing the size of the drive, instead of the Macintosh HD partition, I've slipped out of the grasp of the recovery partition's help? Any advice, or pointers on things I might have missed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Rachel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
