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Thats it one external bootable Recovery Drive this works on both OSX 10.7 and 10.8
disk-util-list-drives We can also identify the Recovery drive by the name and the size set at 650mb 2) Mount the drive by its Identifier:
diskutil mount /dev/disk0s3 Output should be: Volume Recovery HD on /dev/disk0s3 mounted Now the Recovery HD is mounted in the Finder and you can see it in the sidebar under Devices Navigate to it from the sidebar Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg
recovery-finder-osx-lion 3) Doubleclick BaseSystem.dmg to mount it also in the sidebar. This will mount the volume Mac OSX Base System
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macosx-basesystem 4) Open Disk Utility in /Applications/Utilities 5) Put in a 2GB+ USB drive, let Disk Utility load it. The USB drive needs to be formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled, if its not, its time to format it in Disk Utility
usb-format-osx-extended-lion 6) Finally in still in Disk Utility, select the Restore tab - drag the mounted volume Mac OSX Base System into the Source field and drag the USB drive Volume (mine is called SuperBootUSBDrive) to the Destination.
restore-volume-osx-usb 7) Click Restore 10 minutes later One bootable USB drive Your bootable USB drive will be called Mac OS X Base System after the restore is complete. Now to boot from it just select it as the Start Up disk in System Preferences or hold down option key on boot and select it from the choice of bootable devices.
start-up-system-preference If you have downloaded the OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion App from the App Store then you can also make a full bootable image of OSX 10.8 to a disk/drive, you need to make the boot drive/disk before you install the Mountain Lion App, as the installer is deleted after running it. Thats why the guide here can get you out of trouble.
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