That’s it one external bootable Recovery Drive – this works on both OSX 10.7 and 10.8 The Terminal Wayġ) Launch Terminal from /Applications/Utilities and run: The Easy Wayġ) Download OSX Recovery Disk Assistant and uncompress and launch itĢ) Attach the USB drive that you want to copy the Recovery Partition to.ģ) Select the drive and continue (All contents on it will be erased) Download OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from the App Store.
Download OS X Mountain Lion and Extract the DMG File.
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If you already have the Mac OS X Mountain Lion install DMG extracted, skip this first set of steps and jump directly to making the bootable drive below. This OS requires very light System: An Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 or Xeon processor, 7GB free hard drive space and just 2 Gb of RAM. You can make a bootable USB drive or disk from the Recovery Partition 2 ways – the easy way and on the TerminalĪt for the one who want to get the ISO image, it is easy to convert Lion 10.7.5.DMG to Lion 10.7.5.ISO using PowerISO under Windows or Mac OS X. If you bought a new machine from Apple you have OS X 10.8 already installed – but no back up disk! and since you haven’t bought the OSX Lion 10.8 App from the App store you can’t re-download it – so thats why you have the recovery drive as a partition in your main hard drive, to boot from it you need to restart the machine and when it starts to boot hold down “command” + “r” keys.įrom the Recovery Partition Hard Drivr you can run Disk Utility, access the command line, get online help and do a restore from a Time Machine backup and re-install Mountain Lion leaving all your other files intact – it just replaces the core operating system.
Mac Os X Mountain Lion Dmg Google Drive.