Well this could be good, but how would you choose the recovery hd on your external drive if you don't know which one it is when you boot? Apple releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant On Monday, Apple released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a tool that lets you create a Lion Recovery partition on an external hard drive. http://www.macworld.com/article/161634/2011/08/apple_releases_lion_recovery_disk_assistant.html#lsrc.rss_news ************ 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