
Instead, you press Command+R (Intel Macs) or hold down the Power button (Apple Silicon Macs) on startup to boot into Recovery mode. The Startup Manager doesn't show APFS Recovery volumes, Apple decided to not reveal those in that interface. Why can't I see the Recovery volume in the Startup Manager? Note that these volumes are not visible in Disk Utility. The Recovery HD cloning tasks described below are not applicable to APFS-formatted destinations, CCC takes care of all of this for you without requiring any additional steps.

CCC automatically manages the special "helper" volumes on APFS-formatted destinationsĬCC will automatically create and update the Preboot and Recovery helper volumes on an APFS-formatted destination volume. CCC's Disk Center also offers the ability to create a new Recovery HD volume on volumes formatted with Apple's legacy filesystem, HFS+.


This archive can later be restored to another Recovery HD volume. When performing a backup of a macOS volume, Carbon Copy Cloner automatically archives the Recovery HD volume that is associated with the source volume. The primary purpose of the Recovery HD volume is to offer a method to reinstall macOS. The macOS Installer creates a hidden volume on your startup disk named "Recovery HD".
