Highlight the Recovery partition, right click on it and select Mount the partition. Close the System Preferences.Ģ) Launch Disk Utility. Click the 'Update Secrets' button at the lower left. At the right, turn on the check box for 'Show Hidden Partitions'. Click on the Disk Utility heading at the left. Open the System Preferences and click on Secrets.
Install the System Preference pane by double clicking the downloaded pref pane. You can also use Disk Utility to clone one drive to another.ġ) Make the Recovery partition visible in Disk Utility by using a program like Secrets. To make a complete, bootable clone, use SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. So first having a backup on a bootable drive is essential, since you could restore that. Also be aware that you will not have an emergency drive to boot to, or restore OS X from. Backup, backup, backup! before doing any of the following. The easiest way to remove it is to use Disk Utility.Ĭan't stress this enough.
