Hi Adrian, I was in the exact same position last year after porting Lion from an external drive to my MacBook Pro internal drive. My notes tell me that I proceeded as follows:
Restore Recovery Partition After using Carbon Copy Cloner to move Lion install from an external drive to the internal drive of MacBook Pro, the recovery partition was gone. This means I could not enable Find My Mac in iCloud settings. To restore the Recovery Partition, I reinstalled Lion 10.7 from the paid download over the top of the data and then re-ran the 10.7.2 combo update. Cheers, Carlo On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 , Adrian Skehan wrote: > My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely > a case of going off half cocked. > > I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected > there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone > missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? I am downloading the > 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. > > I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have > been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of > the day so I will report back later. > > Thanks again! > > > Regards, > > > Adrian > > adrianske...@me.com > > > > > > > > > On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Adrian, >> >> You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my >> previous text 'thread' in your replies >> I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. >> >> How did you install Lion first? >> Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? >> Does your computer only have ONE partition? >> >> Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when >> you installed Lion. >> The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using >> the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. >> >> The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old >> disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. >> >> If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both >> CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the >> other because it is hidden). >> >> You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, >> also File Vault. >> >> To check whether you do or don't have the partition. >> Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an >> option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. >> >> If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to >> Wipe your Drive. >> But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of >> your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. >> <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484> >> >> I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline >> again. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad >> >> On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan <adrianske...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> Under Find My Mac it says "Recovery partition required" >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> Adrian >>> >>> adrianske...@me.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Ronni! >>>> >>>> I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD >>>> Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that >>>> says "Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error >>>> occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package" >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> >>>> Adrian >>>> >>>> adrianske...@me.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Adrian, >>>>> >>>>> The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G >>>>> version will geotag your photos. >>>>> >>>>> I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the >>>>> "Find My Friend" app does to locate Apple devices with location services >>>>> turned on. >>>>> >>>>> You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate >>>>> with GPS. >>>>> >>>>> I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You >>>>> just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. >>>>> >>>>> Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Ronni >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
