You're used to only seeing one room in the house, the one which has your Desktop, Folders and Applications. (Read: How to partition a Mac hard drive or SSD, or create a APFS volume for more information.) Think of your hard drive as the house, and the partitions as different rooms. A hard drive is typically a single volume, but it is then split up into multiple areas, known as partitions or volumes. They just see the whole drive as one thing. Most people don't really think about their hard drives (well, SSD these days) in terms of partitions. What is Mac Recovery?Ī quick word on what Mac Recovery mode can do and how it works. If you want to learn how to reinstall Mac OS using Recovery Mode we cover that in a separate article (via the link above). We'll look at the best solutions to these problems below.

You can access the Recovery mode via the keyboard combination Command + R on an Intel Mac (the process on an M1 Mac is slightly different as we will discuss below).īut what do you do if Mac recovery mode isn't working or Command + R doesn't work? There's a simple way to do this using your Mac Recovery partition or via Mac Internet Recovery. In the event of a serious problem with your Mac, you may need to reinstall your Mac operating system. How to reinstall Mac OS X on an older Mac without Recovery mode Install macOS from the bootable installer How to use Internet Recovery to reinstall macOSĬreate a macOS bootable installer on a flash drive

How to check if your Recovery partition is working What to do if recovery mode isn't working? How to enter Recovery when Command+R doesn't work

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