Recovery HD is 650MB hidden partition
in your drive. Recovery HD of your Mac is useful in situations when you are unable to boot your Mac. In such situations you can boot
your Mac using your Recovery HD. As you know Recovery HD is provided
with Mac Lion and later versions so, while cloning its advisable to clone your Recovery HD
too.
In-spite of many advantages, sometimes it becomes necessary to delete it in order to protect your Mac from unauthorized access.
In-spite of many advantages, sometimes it becomes necessary to delete it in order to protect your Mac from unauthorized access.
You can only ignore this if you are a
single user, otherwise its a compulsion. Because, while accessing
Recovery HD using cmd+R keys during startup, you will notice that
Recovery HD boots up your Mac without asking for password.
So, anyone can start your Mac
regardless of password protection, and can reset your password
further. And one can access your personal and confidential data
through Recovery HD access. It is essential to delete this recovery
partition after making clone of Recovery HD into some other drive.
In this video, steps are given for
deleting Recovery Partition from your Mac using Disk utility.
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