by Tom Nelson
When you install OS X Lion, it creates a hidden Recovery HD volume on your Mac’s startup drive. The Recovery HD contains everything necessary to boot your Mac and repair a hard drive or reinstall the OS.
The problem is that you have no choice about where the Recovery HD partition will be created; Lion puts it on the startup drive.
I have a problem with that. First, it’s downright foolish to put the Recovery HD on the same drive you routinely boot from. If the drive develops a hardware-based problem, chances are the Recovery HD partition won’t be usable. Would you back up your data to the same hard drive the data is on? Of course not. So why does Apple think it’s okay to put the Recovery HD on the startup drive?
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