This adds Macintosh HD 2* under Partition Layout:, now press the Apply button. This partition will be resized: “Macintosh HD”Ĭlick the Partition button and when it's finished click the button under Partition Layout: under the Macintosh HD. Partitioning this disk will change one of the partitions.

The following message is displayed.Īre you sure you want to partition the disk “VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media”? if 42.61 change to 41.95, press Enter then click the Apply button. Next, use Disk Utility in the VMware Fusion OS X 10.9 Mavericks DP4 Virtual Machine to create an => 650 MB partition at the end of the disk and restore the Recovery HD.dmg to it.įrom the List select VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media then click the Partition tab.Ĭhange the value of Size: to reflect being => 650 MB less then it is now, e.g. Next, copy the Recovery HD.dmg file to the target or have it available on a USB Flash Drive, other accessible media or via VMware Shared Folder. Sudo hdiutil create -volname 'Recovery HD' -srcdevice /dev/disk0s3 'Recovery HD.dmg'Įither way, now you have a restorable copy of the Recovery HD partition.

Or to create an image and scan it for restore just from the command line, in Terminal use the following commands: To disable the Debug menu in Disk Utility and with Disk Utility closed, then in a Terminal use the following command:ĭefaults write DUDebugMenuEnabled 0 Next, select the Recovery HD.dmg in the List and then select: Images > Scan Image for Restore Next, select Recovery HD in the List and then select: File > New > Disk Image From 'Recovery HD'.

Open Disk Utility and from the Debug menu select: Show every partition On the donor system (system that has working Recovery HD) and with Disk Utility closed, then in a Terminal use the following command to enable the Debug menu in Disk Utility.ĭefaults write DUDebugMenuEnabled 1 Then you can restore the image to the VMware Fusion OS X 10.9 Mavericks DP4 Virtual Machine using Disk Utility after creating an => 650 MB partition at the end of the Macintosh HD virtual hard disk. Or IMO an easier faster way without Disk Utility, you can create the image and scan for restore from the command line using hdiutil and asr in a Terminal. This can be done using Disk Utility by enabling the Debug menu in Disk Utility to show the Recovery HD partition in the List and make an image of it. Since you already installed it physically you can make a copy of the Recovery HD from the physical install and then restore it to the Virtual Machine.

Mavericks usb installer