New Mac OS X Lion Recovery Mode Can Reinstall OS From Apple's Servers

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Posted July 19, 2011 at 2:31pm by Shalom Levytam

A leaked AppleCare screenshot reveals that Mac OS X Lion will have a new recovery mode that can reinstall Lion over the Internet, reports 9to5Mac.

A little birdie of ours has managed to snap a page from an internal AppleCare manual detailing OS X Lion's brand new recovery system, invoked by holding down Command-R during startup. Upon entering the new recovery mode, you can restore your system to any point in time from a Time Machine backup and run Disk Utility to check, repair, erase or partition volumes. In addition – and this is obviously your key takeaway – users can"reinstall Lion over the Internet from Apple's servers".

Apple Stores have already begun receiving Mac OS X Lion GM and are expected to install the OS tonight for its release tomorrow.

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Looky - July 19, 2011 at 3:31pm

The recovery partition is approximately 650+ MB of HD space.

Chet Cox - July 19, 2011 at 4:00pm

How do you get a 4GB operating system in the 650mb partition?

Looky - July 19, 2011 at 6:18pm

The recovery partition is a hidden partition (650+ MB) that helps you to install 10.7 via the internet in your main partition. For example, if you are away from home and there is no internet connection or a poor connection, then it is just wasted HD space.