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The last few hard drive replacements I have done on MacBook Pros and iMacs, by installing a formatted drive, booting the machine and downloading 10.9 have not installed the repair-restore partition. What am I doing wrong? Update This installation was onto a 750 GB 2012 Apple hard drive from a 2012 15" MBP. It was in a MBP 13" Late 2011.
Here’s the answer to this issue: http://www.cnet.com/news/overcome-an-ina…
Take a look at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718