Does MacMini have a repair disk?

[LeandrodaFL]

Does MacMini have a repair disk? And what is it exactly, is it a partition or hardwired to the motherboard?

 

[Intell]

It is a partition on boot drive.

 

[blevins321]

2011 Mac Mini's, in addition to the repair partition mentioned above, have a feature that allows them to boot directly from the Internet in case of drive replacement or total drive failure. Hold Apple/Command + Option + R on boot to start Internet Recovery. This will boot a recovery partition that will allow you to download a new copy of Lion.

 

[tom vilsack]

or if you don't want to take hours (depending on internet speed) reinstalling lion...try this

-buy a portable harddrive
-boot osx lion setup way you like ect
-download/install either "carbon copy" or "super duper"
-using either make a clone to your portable harddrive

now if you ever have to reinstall...just boot using "option key" select portable drive...then just clone portable back to main drive...done.

 

[BrianBaughn]

To run "Repair Disk" on the system disk you can install AppleJack and run it from Single User mode.

The other answers are good for "Recovery", if that's what you mean.

 

[minifridge1138]

You can also use the recover partition to install Lion onto a USB thumb drive if you had to (i've installed SL onto a USB drive, so i guess it will work with Lion).

 

[simsaladimbamba]

OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery
Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

 

[bdodds1985]

kinda suz there is not just holding alt/option like my MBP to bring up disk utility etc etc. plus the lion thumb drive I bought from apple does not work. brand new mac mini 2.7