Are there ANY mac recovery and repair disks like in Windows?

Discussion in 'macOS' started by pawgod, Apr 5, 2013.

  1. pawgod

    pawgod MDL Novice

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    hi, ive been really digging OS X lately and im thinking of doing a hackintosh, ive already found all the software id need to use it on a day to day basis and stuff, so should i succeed i might be able to use it as my main OS! :D but for the life of me i cant figure out what i'd do if i f up the system and need to repair it or salvage stuff from it, according to wikipedia most linux live cds dont play too well with the HFS+/HFS filesystem and sometimes it cant even ruin it, so that makes pretty much every non WinPE rescue disk useless for fixing a mac, so whats left? i really cant see myself using a system knowing that i wont be able to repair it should it get bricked, any ideas here guys?
     
  2. unimatrix725

    unimatrix725 MDL Novice

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    I use Snow Leopard Pro 911 boot disk. It is available from major torrent sites, it includes many apps within it for recovery, etc. It allows you to fully boot a broken Mac System and do whatever is needed. You can do like me and image it to a partition near end of disk or burn it to dvd, however it will be slower to use. You can even use it as a base os and go from there, would not be a great idea to go that route. Also note by using SLP911 you "Agree" that you have licences for all software or will "delete" it.... ;)
     
  3. pawgod

    pawgod MDL Novice

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    Lol thank you unimatrix! didnt expect id get another reply so long after this post xD i hope its testable in VirtualBox though, its nice to know what to expect from a boot cd instead of it being a surprise the first time you use it haha.