Even using OS X Mavericks there may be times you need Recovery HD. If you see a prohibitory sign, spinning-disc cursor, or kernel panic alert (the text in six languages that appears below the other two images) that doesn’t go away when you start up your Mac, the first thing to do is attempt to repair hidden damage to your hard drive with the Disk Utility program’s First Aid feature.
And to do that, you’ll have to boot from the Recovery HD partition. That’s because you can’t run Disk Utility’s First Aid feature on the current startup disk.
To start up from this magical disk (actually, a disk partition), here’s what to do:
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If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you'll welcome this lite program called DiskAid. DiskAid is an application to transfer files from Mac to iPhone or iPod Touch as if it was a common Hard Disk.
If you press Option after the startup chime instead of Command+R, the built-in Startup Manager appears. From this screen, you can click the Recovery HD icon, and then click the arrow below it or press Enter or Return to boot from it. Or, if you’re going to boot from a disk other than the Recovery HD, you can select it here.
Pressing Option during startup displays icons for all bootable volumes it sees and allows you to select one (including the Recovery HD partition).
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Click the disk you want to start up from, and then click the arrow below it or press Return or Enter to start up your Mac from it.
Step 1: Run First Aid
In most cases, after you’ve booted successfully from the Recovery HD or another bootable disk, the first logical troubleshooting step is to use the First Aid option in the Disk Utility application.
If you booted from a disk other than the Recovery HD partition, you’ll have to find and launch Disk Utility on that disk before you can follow these instructions.
Step 2: Safe Boot into Safe Mode
Booting your Mac in Safe Mode may help you resolve your startup issue by not loading nonessential (and non–OS X) software at boot time. You do it by holding down the Shift key during startup.
If your Mac is set up so you don’t have to log in, keep pressing the Shift key until the Finder loads completely. If you do log in to your Mac, type your password as usual, but before clicking the Log In button, press the Shift key again and hold it until the Finder loads completely.
You know you held the Shift key long enough if your Login Items don’t load (assuming that you have Login Items; you can designate them in the Users & Groups System Preferences pane, although some programs create them for you).
Booting in Safe Mode does three things to help you with troubleshooting:
Taken together, these changes often work around issues caused by software or directory damage on the startup volume.
If your Mac boots in Safe Mode, you may be able to determine what’s causing the issue by moving the contents of your Preferences folder (in Home/Library, which you can make visible by pressing the Option key when opening the Go menu) to the Desktop temporarily or by disabling Login Items (in the Users & Groups System Preference pane).
Step 3: Zap the PRAM/NVRAM
Sometimes your parameter RAM (PRAM) or Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM) becomes scrambled and needs to be reset. Both of these are small pieces of memory that aren’t erased or forgotten when you shut down. They keep track of things such as
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To reset (a process often called zapping) your PRAM/NVRAM, restart your Mac and press Command+Option+P+R until your Mac restarts itself. It’s kind of like a hiccup. You might see the spinning-disc cursor for a minute or two while your Mac thinks about it — then the icon disappears, and your Mac chimes again and restarts.
Now restart your Mac without holding down any keys to see if the PRAM/NVRAM zap fixed your Mac.
Remember that your chosen startup disk, time zone, and sound volume are reset to their default values when you zap your PRAM. So after zapping, open the System Preferences application to reselect your usual startup disk and time zone, and set the sound volume the way you like it.
Step 4: Reinstall OSDisk First Aid Mac Download Windows 10
This procedure to reinstall the system software is a second-to-last resort when your Mac won’t boot correctly because it takes the longest and is the biggest hassle. You can download instructions for reinstalling OS X Mavericks here.
Step 5: Things to try before taking your Mac in for repairFirst Aid On Mac
To get your Mac up and running again, you can try any of the following:
Disk Utility User Guide
Disk Utility can fix certain disk problems—for example, multiple apps quit unexpectedly, a file is corrupted, an external device doesn’t work properly, or your computer won’t start up. Disk Utility can’t detect or repair all problems that a disk may have.
If you run First Aid on a disk, Disk Utility checks the partition maps on the disk and performs some additional checks, and then checks each volume. If you run First Aid on a volume, Disk Utility verifies all the contents of that volume only.
If your Mac has a Fusion Drive and you see a flashing question mark or alert, see the troubleshooting section of the Apple Support article About Fusion Drive, a storage option for some Mac computers.
If you continue to have problems with your disk or it can’t be repaired, it may be physically damaged and need to be replaced. For information about servicing your Mac, see Find out how to service or repair your Mac.
See alsoErase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on MacAdd, delete, or erase APFS volumes in Disk Utility on MacPartition a physical disk in Disk Utility on Mac
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