(See our hands-on with Mountain Lion Recovery for all the details.)
If you ever have system or drive issues, OS X Recovery lets you boot your Mac into a special recovery mode to check or repair your hard drive, browse the Web for troubleshooting help, restore your drive from a backup, or even reinstall OS X itself. If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use our standard instructions for creating a bootable Mavericks installer drive.Ī nice feature of recent OS X versions is OS X Recovery. This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks.
