If you purchased OS X 10.9 from the Mac App Store,Ĭreating a bootable Mavericks installer drive from the Mac App Store version of Mavericks is relatively simple. Relevant firmware updates.) A bootable installer drive, on the other hand, will always be there for you. (OS X Internet Recovery is available on mid-2011-or-later Macs, as well as some older Macs that have received And if you’ve got a Mac that doesn’t support OS X Internet Recovery-a variation of OS X Recovery that loads over the Internet and requires special firmware-recovery mode may not even be available if your Mac’s drive itself is having problems. For starters, OS X Recovery doesn’t include the full Mavericks installer-it requires you to download over 5GB of data before you can reinstall OS X 10.9-whereas a bootable installer drive contains all the necessary data, making installation much, much faster.
For example, if you want to install Mavericks (OS X 10.9) on multiple Macs, a bootable installer drive is faster and more convenient than downloading or copying the entire OS X installer to each computer.īut even for troubleshooting, a bootable installer drive has advantages over OS X Recovery.
But there are still good reasons to have one. OS X Recovery is a convenient feature that, in theory, means you no longer need an OS X Install disc or a bootable external hard drive with the OS X installer. Hands-on with Mountain Lion Recovery for all the details.) If you ever have system or drive issues, OS X Recovery lets you boot your Mac into a special recovery mode to check or repair your hard drive, browse the Web for troubleshooting help, restore your drive from a backup, or even reinstall OS X itself. Our standard instructions for creating a bootable Mavericks installer drive.Ī nice feature of recent OS X versions is If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use
This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks.
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