How to Access recovery HD of your Mac OS X Mountain Lion

As we know recovery HD is an invisible partition created while installing Mac OS X lion and mountain lion, So you can't access it like other volumes. It is available for users but only in read only mode, in startup disk of your Mac.

You need to access recovery HD in adverse situations, like disk corruption or disk boot failure. So when you get stacked in such types of problems, you can boot your Mac with this useful Recovery HD-- (Apple provide this feature in Mac to handle or overcome these adverse conditions on your Mac). Here the question is -­ how a user can access this invisible partition. Here is the complete explanation of this feature of Mac OS X.

There are two ways to access the recovery HD.

1. Starting/restarting your Mac.
2. Keep holding command+R, until you see a OS X Utilities on the top across the screen in large text. It will make you to access recovery HD.

But, if you do not find this method easy or if it doesn't work, you can apply the next method explained below:

• Here, start your Mac while holding down the Option key, keep holding it until you find 'Startup Manager'. Startup manager window seems to you as gray screen and it will show you all connected OS and their respective recovery HD.

1. And if you also want to access backups using time machine then you can do this by connecting to local network. For connection establishment you can click on the pop up menu at the screen's bottom and choose tab local Wi-fi connection. However it will provide you to choose a network after booted from recovery mode, so its not required to establish this connection just after first step.
   
2. Then by clicking on arrow pointing-upward makes your Mac boot from Recovery HD. After a short time, you’ll see the new OS X Utilities screen.

Note: You can also make bootable clone of Recovery HD partition by using Stellar Drive Clone in order to Clone recovery HD for use in emergency situations.