Mac – Are there any other way to restart to recovery HD

macrestart

I tried to restart while keep pressing Command-R

However, my keyboard is not mac keyboard. There is windows-R. It works exactly like Command-R in all circumstances.

Well, I keep failing to get into recovery HD. I need that because I want to repair the main disk.

Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart
your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you
see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose
Disk Utility.

What should I do?

I have a flash disk. Can I turn that into recovery HD?

Best Answer

Try this alternative way (explained at macworld.com):

  1. Start you Mac while pressing the Option key (in your Windows keyboard press the Alt key) until the Startup Manager appears:

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    One of the volumes will be called Recovery HD.

  2. Select Recovery HD and then click the upward-pointing arrow below it to boot from Recovery HD.

  3. After a brief delay, you’ll see the Mac OS X Utilities screen. Select Disk Utility to repair your disk:

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