You _can_ make a recovery disk on a thumb drive, but it's best to have it created by the installer on the boot drive. There's a tool named "Recovery Disk Assistant" out there which helps create the Recovery Disk, but the best thing to do is to just run a fresh copy of the OS X Installer.
Godfrey On Sep 20, 2014, at 11:22 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > If it works like it did when I bought the Mac Mini, you make a "recovery > disk" on an 8GB thumb drive. It doesn't have anything on it but the OS & > possibly some files needed to make the thumb drive bootable. > > It won't recover your data, you have to back that up separately. > > Probably best to do it before the drive gives you problems. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
