Launch the App store and search for Mavericks. This way you have recovery disks for Bootcamp and Mac OS. You might want to get two flash drives though if you plan on installing Bootcamp as well. I don’t know if a higher capacity flash drive will work as well. You’ll be needing an 8GB USB flash drive preferably the USB 3.0 type as they are much faster ( They come cheap for as low as $5 from Amazon).

Also endeavor to read the entire article to the end as well as watching the videos included before you attempt this. WARNING: As always do please back up your data before you proceed should in case something goes wrong.

How To Create A Mac OS Recovery Flash Drive Unknown to most folks out there, there is a legal way of creating a recovery flash drive for yourself and that’s what I’ll be sharing with you below thanks to some fantastic guides I followed. Each time you wish to reinstall your OS, you have to download the whole 5.32GB installation file off their servers. It’s common knowledge that Apple for some stupid reason doesn’t ship their Mac PCs with a recovery disk or offline recovery partition. I spent just N2,200 and downloaded over 12GB worth of data throughout the whole process. I’m really grateful to Etisalat Nigeria for their PayG by Pulse data plan without which it would have been next to impossible to achieve this whole reinstallation with minimal expenses. I’ll be taking delivery of my 2TB external portable Western Digital hard drive next month and I’ll be creating a 512GB partition on it solely for my Mac OS/Bootcamp backups. Right now, I’ve decided to leave the partitioning business to Windows folks and just develop the habit of backing up my data religiously from time to time. Well, partitioning my hard drive and moving the Mac OS home folder to the new partition seems to have been the cause of my woes. The question on your mind now is probably what did I do to trigger all this mess. The App store no longer freezes on me, Progressive Downloader is breezy and the dreaded white screen of death I get most of the times when I shut down my Macbook is GONE. In summary, Spotlight now works, so does Mozilla Firefox. The last 48 hours haven’t been easy at all but have most definitely been fun as I decided to take advantage of the ongoing strike action to reformat and reinstall Mac OS Mavericks so as to see if all the issues I was having with my Retina display Macbook Pro would end instantly.

In my defense, some of my problems came up in the Apple forums so there was no way I could tell that my geek actions were to blame I’ve cursed the operating system to the high heavens on several occasions oblivious to the fact that one of my geek moves was the cause of my woes. My rants about my many issues with Mac OS shouldn’t be news to those of you that follow me on social media.

Os x mavericks recovery disk download