![]() ![]() At some point down the road the new machines, still coming with the recovery in firmware, seemed to "loose" the ability to do a non-Internet based recovery from a partition on the drive. But since it's not in the firmware thats why replacing a HD requires a bootable installer. If you upgraded a pre-10.7 machine with anything after it will create a recovery partition which has the full recovery utilities. In that sense the recovery partition beginning with 10.7 was like those with Dell or HP. ![]() Beginning with 10.7 they shipped with firmware that would go out to Apple to download the OS image if there was not a recovery partition on the drive. Machines shipped prior to 10.7 only had recovery CD's. This is how it's progressed over time with Apple as best I can remember.
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