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Can I roll back to Mavericks?
- Thread starter Shocco
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Yes. I don't know if Yosemite replaces the Recovery partition to a newer one, but you can simply go to the Recovery partition by holding Option at bootup, clear your Yosemite partition and simply reinstall Mavericks from there.
Yosemite actually deleted my mavericks recovery partition.
You'd be better off booting up from the mavericks usb and using that to erase the entire drive and then install mavericks again.
You should be able to do all of this from the bootable usb.
Alternatively you can also use it to restore from a time machine backup of mavericks made before you upgraded to Yosemite if you did such a backup. Apple advises to do such backups anyway.
You'd be better off booting up from the mavericks usb and using that to erase the entire drive and then install mavericks again.
You should be able to do all of this from the bootable usb.
Alternatively you can also use it to restore from a time machine backup of mavericks made before you upgraded to Yosemite if you did such a backup. Apple advises to do such backups anyway.
Yosemite converted my entire Disk to a Core Storage Partition and I had to Google how to Partition my Drive to reinstall Mavericks. Yosemite did update my Recovery Partition.
Give this whole thread a read. If you install Yosemite on a second partition, that partition is setup as core storage. It does not convert the first (Mavericks) partition to core storage though.
Does this just apply to SSDs? I installed Yosemite on a separate partition and it's not setup as core storage. It also did not erase my Mavericks recovery partition either.
I don't think so. The people that have been reporting this issue seem to be both HDD and SSD users and they all installed Yosemite on a second partition. Odd it did not happen to you.
Indeed. This is what happens when I run the command diskutil list in terminal.
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Looks like you were not afflicted with the core storage issue. I attribute it to clean living.
The Partition was just a Standard format for OS X. It converted it during the upgrade for some reason.
Easy fix
I know this is an old article, but this recently happened to me and the easiest way to get rid of the Yosemite partition is to:
1) Boot your other OS, mine was Mavericks
2) Open Disk Utility
3) Select the Yosemite partition
4) Select the erase tab, erase it
5) Select the main drive and go to the partition tab, where you can then delete the Yosemite partition and resize it back to the original size.
Hope that helps!
I know this is an old article, but this recently happened to me and the easiest way to get rid of the Yosemite partition is to:
1) Boot your other OS, mine was Mavericks
2) Open Disk Utility
3) Select the Yosemite partition
4) Select the erase tab, erase it
5) Select the main drive and go to the partition tab, where you can then delete the Yosemite partition and resize it back to the original size.
Hope that helps!