To use OS X's handy OS X Recovery feature, or to enable FileVault on an external drive, you need a special recovery partition on your drive. This utility can add it if the OS X installer didn't.

Recovery Partition Creator is a simple script that will bring it back. At some point along the line, I deleted my Mac's recovery partition, only to find that the darn thing's actually important.

You may find it useful to set up a recovery partition in case your Windows partition ends up being corrupted or no longer available. Follow the lead and you will get a fresh recovery partition in just ...

When you install OS X Lion, the system will create a hidden partition called "Recovery HD." In addition to providing recovery and diagnostics tools similar to those on the older OS X installation ...

The first is to create a clone of the Recovery HD volume itself to another drive, and the second is to restore the disk image in the recovery partition to another drive.

So here are instructions for how to create a Recovery Drive and delete the Recovery partition on your Surface device. Keep in mind, the Recovery partition is there for a reason.

The new tool basically allows Lion users to create recovery partitions on external drives.

A reader seems to be missing his OS X recovery partition after cloning one drive to another. Chris Breen offers a solution.

Why are there are multiple Recovery Partitions in Windows 11/10? Can you remove, delete or merge the multiple Recovery Partitions? We explain all!

To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space becomes unallocated, and you can create a new partition using Disk ...