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How to restore a missing recovery partition

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Reader Kai Peterson installed a copy of Yosemite but seems to be missing something. He writes:</p>

I installed a clean copy of Yosemite on an external hard drive, which I cloned to another Mac using the demo of Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.macworld.com/article/2842874/carbon-copy-cloner-4-brings-increased-usability-to-trusted-utility.html). When trying to troubleshoot something on that Mac I discovered that it had no recovery partition. Is there any way I can create one?

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There is. Before I walk through it I should tell you that this is expected behavior. When Carbon Copy Cloner 4 clones a bootable drive to another drive, it doesn’t create a recovery partition in the same way that the OS X installer does. Instead, it creates an archive of it and places the archive here: /Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2857721/how-to-restore-a-missing-recovery-partition.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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