If there’s any files, apps or other items that you want to exclude from your backups, then click ‘Options…’, followed by the little ‘+’ button.

If this is your first Time Machine backup, then click the ‘Select backup disk…’ button, and choose the drive that you want to use for your backups.

Navigate to ‘System Preferences… > Time Machine.’.

Select the ‘Apple’ logo from your Mac’s menu bar.

Don’t forget your Time Machine backup!īefore you start, you should create a full Time Machine backup, so you can restore all of your files, folders and apps once you’ve installed a fresh copy of macOS. If resetting the PRAM doesn’t work, then there’s several ways that you can reinstall a fresh copy of macOS, without a Recovery partition. Once your Mac has booted, try re-running the ‘diskutil list’ Terminal command, to see whether this has resolved your issue.

To reset the PRAM, restart your Mac while holding down the ‘Command+Option+P+R’ keys until you hear macOS’ distinctive startup chimes for a second time. If your Mac is missing a Recovery partition, then you may be able to restore it, by resetting your PRAM. If this list doesn’t contain either Apple_Boot Recovery HD or APFS Volume Recovery, then it means your Mac doesn’t have a recovery partition. The Terminal will now display a list of all your drives and partitions.

Press the “Enter” key on your keyboard.

Copy/paste the following into the Terminal:.

Navigate to “Applications > Utilities” and then launch the Terminal app.You can perform this check, using the Terminal application: The first step, is to verify that your Mac is definitely lacking a Recovery partition. Are your really missing a Recovery partition?

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