- Joined
- Aug 8, 2012
- Messages
- 57
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-H55-USB3: F5
- CPU
- i7-870
- Graphics
- GTX 960
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
I'm very happy with the way my 4530s is running. With the exception Bluetooth and Find My Mac (FMM), most everything else seems to be functioning smoothly
I've been reading a bit about FMM... Hacked PCs have no Recovery Partition and, without it, FMM doesn't work. On a actual Mac, I guess the Recovery Partition can't easily be deleted, otherwise a simple reformat would wipe it out, and that would defeat its purpose.
Apparently, however, you can recreate a Recovery Partition. The stuff I read is a bit over my head though. I'm still trying to sort through it. I don't think I'd want to try it without one of the Geeks in this community giving it a thumbs up. Anyway, here are a few places where they talk about solutions:
http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lion/
… and the guy, Christopher Silvertooth, has a Mountain Lion Update here:
http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/08/recovery-partition-creator-v2-0/
… at MacWorld Hints, they talk about it:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120316132618149
… and at Insanely Mac:
http://www.insanlynac.com/forum/index.php?s
=2c7b8be83671cddc2afd3de439e20277&showtopic=271206&st=0
(For some reason, auto-correct keeps changing the above link from 'insanely mac' to 'insanly nac' If you want to see it, just copy the url and correct it.)
They talk about creating a 'fake' recovery partition, about it getting deleted after reboot and how to prevent that.
My 4530 being a laptop, and way too easy to have stolen, and me being on the road as often as I am, it sure would be nice to have FMM on it. I'd install it on my guitars, if I could : )
Rob
I've been reading a bit about FMM... Hacked PCs have no Recovery Partition and, without it, FMM doesn't work. On a actual Mac, I guess the Recovery Partition can't easily be deleted, otherwise a simple reformat would wipe it out, and that would defeat its purpose.
Apparently, however, you can recreate a Recovery Partition. The stuff I read is a bit over my head though. I'm still trying to sort through it. I don't think I'd want to try it without one of the Geeks in this community giving it a thumbs up. Anyway, here are a few places where they talk about solutions:
http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lion/
… and the guy, Christopher Silvertooth, has a Mountain Lion Update here:
http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/08/recovery-partition-creator-v2-0/
… at MacWorld Hints, they talk about it:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120316132618149
… and at Insanely Mac:
http://www.insanlynac.com/forum/index.php?s
=2c7b8be83671cddc2afd3de439e20277&showtopic=271206&st=0
(For some reason, auto-correct keeps changing the above link from 'insanely mac' to 'insanly nac' If you want to see it, just copy the url and correct it.)
They talk about creating a 'fake' recovery partition, about it getting deleted after reboot and how to prevent that.
My 4530 being a laptop, and way too easy to have stolen, and me being on the road as often as I am, it sure would be nice to have FMM on it. I'd install it on my guitars, if I could : )
Rob