I did a test and internet recovery for me is indeed Command Option-R. I hope I made that clearer, but I suppose it is a little difficult to explain without actually showing it, heh. In the past before El Capitan, you entered Internet Recovery through Command-R, and the Recovery Mode it entered was the version of OS X that came with your computer (for example, if you bought your Mac with Mountain Lion, and you updated to Yosemite, Internet Recovery would be the Mountain Lion version of recovery). Note :- With the advent of OS X El Capitan 10.11, Apple disabled or removed the debug menu from disk utility so you can’t use the option 2 in OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra.You will have to use the terminal commands as mentioned in Option 3 in order to clone the recovery partition on an external USB drive. It seems Apple disabled entering the Recovery Partition from the Startup Manager (holding down the Option key at boot). Internet Recovery changed to Command-Option-R. It seems that entering the Recovery Partition is now by just using the shortcut Command-R (which used to be Internet Recovery).
How to find recovery partition mac os x el capitan install#
The install file should appear in your Applications folder.
To access OS X Recovery, reboot the computer while holding the Option. When the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant completes, the new partition will not be visible in the Finder or Disk Utility.
I looked into it further, and it seems Apple changed things around since El Capitan. Go to the Mac App Store, find the relevant version of OS X, and click download. Insert an external drive, launch the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant, select the drive where you would like to install, and follow the on screen instructions.