Most likely, the repair center will install either Lion or Mountain Lion, and there should be a (hidden) Recovery HD, too. Suggestions/Comments on best route forward (machine MacBookPro) still under extended warranty,appreciated.įile System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
If I can select from my existing (Lion) TM backup onto a clean install of Mountain Lion then that is my preference as prefer a 'clean' install anyway. Question is will a fresh build recognise the lion time machine content permitting me to restore or (more likely I guess) replace hard drive and restore to Lion and then upgrade. I have a full time machine backup, so I guess it's either reformat the primary of off to the repair centre? I have run disk utilities and also repaired permsisions etc but for the hard drive I am notified S.M.A.R.T. Back up as much of the data as possible and replace the disk. This disk has a hardware problem that can't br repaired. Purchased and downloaded just fine also copied the app to a second volume.
