Posted February 13, 201410 yr My wife's iMac is running 10.6.8. I would like to upgrade her to Mavericks and have already prepared a thumb drive with DiskMaker X. As part of the process, I would like to create a recovery partition to use in emergencies going forward. My tentative process is Back up! Boot from an external disk. Part of previous step is a SuperDuper! (SD) update. Erase the internal disk. Run Mavericks installer from thumb drive. This is a "clean" install due to the previous step, so it's supposed to offer to create a recovery partition. Boot again from the SD external and use SD to clone it back to the internal disk's main partition after erasing it. Boot from internal disk. Back at the original system, run the Mavericks installer again to install over 10.6.8, leaving all my files in place. I also run Time Machine - it too is part of the above back up step. I can replace steps 5-7 above with the Migration Assistant pulling my stuff from my TM disk. Which way is preferable? Are there other methods? My feeling is my 7 step plan is safer because it does not involve moving user directories and applications, etc., back into place from TM. Continue reading...
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