T I ended up using the terminal thing to create the boot drive, and taughtthat in my Mavericks how to. Also disk permission repair didn't help and reinstalling failed to. > On Oct 29, 2013, at 10:41, Edward Lewis Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi sarah, there’s a possibility there’s a conflict with your app. Do a disk > permissions repair in disk utilities. > > restart the app and see if it works. if not, check your mac’s software is up > to date. > > there is a terminal based operation to create your recovery disk, I’ll dig > that up and paste it in > > lew > >> On 29 Oct 2013, at 05:19 pm, Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> How when I can't even get the first dialogue to come up? >> >> >> >> >>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 9:52, Edward Lewis Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I’m sorry I’m going to have to correct you on this. >>> >>> you can do a full re-image of your recovery drive using diskmaker X in >>> mavericks using the mavericks install app. I check this as an admin / >>> engineer so need to have volumes accessible both in physical media and >>> network images. so, in this instance, you can perform a disk create in >>> mavericks using diskMaker X 3.01 >>> >>> lew >>> >>>> On 29 Oct 2013, at 04:41 pm, Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Uh, wow, that sucks. When I used to use lion disk maker I did this after >>>> every update, of mountaion lion. I did not have to be on the prior >>>> version. I ownder if the dev can change this? and I know peopel who did >>>> run mavericks and run the program and build the boot disk successfully. >>>> >>>>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 5:40, Kliphton ------- <kliphton.a.m@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You can't do it after mavericks is already installed. I know, I have >>>>> already tried. You need to be on moutain lion unless it has changed in >>>>> the last 4 days. >>>>> >>>>> Kliphton >>>>> (iMessage&Email) kliphton.a.m@xxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> (Twitter,Instagram,FourSquare&Skype) kliphton72 >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 7:06 AM, "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Ok. Why did I then get diskmakerx has no windows? >>>>> >>>>> Running os10.9. >>>>> >>>>>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 4:50, Christian Schoepplein <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Daniel, >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Di, Okt 29, 2013 at 11:09:30 +0000, Daniel McGee wrote: >>>>>>> Christian, what OSX version did you do a bootable copy of? >>>>>> >>>>>> I've created a bootable medium for Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> Christian >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Christian Schoepplein - <chris (at) schoeppi.net> - http://schoeppi.net >>>>>> ************ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes >>>>>> to their list subscription is: >>>>>> >>>>>> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >>>>>> >>>>>> The list archive is located at >>>>>> >>>>>> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >>>>>> >>>>>> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >>>>>> >>>>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> ************ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes >>>>> to their list subscription is: >>>>> >>>>> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >>>>> >>>>> The list archive is located at >>>>> >>>>> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >>>>> >>>>> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >>>>> >>>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >