What to do when OS X Recovery Mode lets you down

Despite our undeserved reputation of complacency, every Mac user knows that sometimes things go wrong. When they do we can usually boot up Disk Recovery mode to try to deal with it. In this short guide I’ll tell you how to do that and share three other ways to save your Mac life.

Recovery Mode

When things go wrong try Recovery Mode. All you need to do to access this is Restart your Mac and hold Command-R when you hear the startup sound. You can release these keys once the Apple symbol and grey progress bar appear on your display.

But what can you do if this doesn’t work?

Time Machine

You keep backups don’t you? You really should. If you do have a connected external drive with a Time Machine backup then you can use Recovery Mode from the backup. This may sometimes be the only way to get to fix (or at least rescue data) from your Mac, particularly when you can’t get it online or its drive has become damaged.

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