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See Recovery Partitions in Lion

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

The Mac OS 10.7 Lion installer creates a hidden Recovery Partition on your boot device. By default this partition is hidden in the Disk Utility’s device and volume listings. You can reveal these hidden volumes in Disk Utility using the Debug menu, but first you’ll have to enable the menu with the Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

Once enabled, open Disk Utility and select Show Every Partition from the Debug menu. Your hidden Recovery and EFI partitions should now be visible and available for imaging, etc.

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NetBook Upgrades for Windows 7

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Chances are that if you have a NetBook you don’t have a DVD drive. And chances are if that NetBook is running a previous version of Windows that you’re probably thinking about upgrading it to Windows 7. If you are using a NetBook with Vista then you might want to check out the new Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. With the Download Tool you would use a 4GB USB drive to cache the installer files and install Windows 7. Therefore you wouldn’t need an optical drive! But you will need the .NET Framework 2.0 or later and to configure the BIOS to boot off the jump drive.

Happy upgrades and if you need any help, as always, feel free to call 318.

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