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I’ve discovered that my Recovery Partition for High Sierra is missing; i.e., it’s not there. diskutil list shows 4 images, but none are labeled “Recovery”.
Since I need it to create a DiskWarrior Bootable Recovery, how can I do that quickly and easily if my Recovery partition is missing from the drive? I don’t want to have to reinstall High Sierra.
Earlier Mac models
Yes, I have CCC, but it won’t help me replace the Recovery partition when it’s not there to begin with.My existing back up doesn’t have a recovery partition, so backing that up won’t change anything.I’m getting the sick feeling that I’ll have to reinstall High Sierra.
If you are using the APFS file system with High Sierra, then the Recovery Partition is now a Recovery Volume this is normally hidden from view by default because there is no reason for people to mount it.
Plus if you are using the APFS file system, then Disk Warrior won't help you since they have not released a version of Disk Warrior that can repair an APFS volume.
https://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior5apfs
FYI, I think you may be able to run Disk Warrior while booted into Recovery Mode (use Internet Recovery Mode using Command + Option + R). Just place the Disk Warrior app on a USB stick & see if DW will work. You may need to use the command line to launch DW though:
open <path-to-DW>
You can try reinstalling macOS to see if it will recreate the Recovery Partition. If you do not want to risk your internal boot drive, then install macOS to an external USB drive.
I’m not using APFS — deliberately. So the Recovery Partition should show up using diskutil list. But it doesn’t, because it’s just not there.
No, you're correct, but you get a bootable clone which should be better than any Recovery partition.
Missing Recovery HD on macOS 10.13.6.
