
In regard to system cloning tools, Carbon Copy Cloner is particularly good at creating a Recovery HD partition when you clone an OS X. The drive you create with the app will boot with any Mac compatible with the version of OS X you use to create the drive. Special thanks to Dan Frakes at Macworld for his excellent introduction to the Recovery Partition Creator script. The thumb drive can boot older versions of OS X back to X 10.5.8, including on PPC Macs. Then, reboot your Mac and get back to work (or play.)

Launch Utilities > Terminal, and enter the following command: csrutil enable If you disabled SIP earlier, let’s enable it again. When you’re in Recovery Mode, let’s tidy up our security and make sure everything stays safe and sound. I cannot upgrade to a later OS, as I must have the ability to use Classic to run my System 9 software, and OS 10.4.11 is the latest system that will run Classic. I have the latest version of Mac OS 10.4. To test whether it’s worked, you can reboot your Mac and hold Command-R to boot into Recovery Mode. I tried both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper Neither would run on my Mac PowerPC G4. If all goes well, you’ll get this confirmation screen when your recovery partition is created Don’t worry about seeing this pop up it’s totally normalĪt last, your recovery partition should be successfully created. Yes, this is called OS X Install ESD even in macOS Sierra. Creating and installing the recovery partitionĭuring the installation, you might notice a volume called OS X Install ESD appear on your desktop, along with an open Finder window. Time for a cup of coffee while Recovery Partition Creator installs the recovery partition.

Choose the install file for your version of OS X or macOS This will usually be in Applications, so find it and click on it. Next, Recovery Partition Creator will ask you to locate your operating system install file. Select which version of OS X or macOS you are running
