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Osx lion usb3/9/2024 Newer Macs with current firmware also have Internet Recovery, where if you start up the computer holding down command-option-R, or if it doesn’t find a bootable partition, it will go to Apple’s servers to download and run a Recovery Disk - which then still needs to download 4 GB to install Lion. This can be useful if you, say, need to install a new hard drive, but it still needs to do the full 4 GB download from the internet. You can also use Apple’s Recovery Disk Assistant, which will copy your Recovery Disk to a USB stick. It allows you to reinstall Mac OS X, with the pretty significant downside that it has to download 4 GB from the internet to do so. When a Mac has Lion on it, it should also have a Recovery Disk, a special hard drive partition which you can access by holding down Option when the computer starts up. However, that doesn’t help if you bought a new Mac and it came with Lion. It’s been well established, such as in this tutorial, that you can use the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion download from the Mac App Store to make a Lion installer USB stick. This is a bit of rehash, but it felt worth rehashing.
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