Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) to Recover Lost Data from System Drive How to Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS? System Integrity Protection (SIP) is a security technology starting in OS X El Capitan and later that's designed to help prevent apps from modifying protected system files and folders on your Mac. This security feature does not allow you an access to files on the system drive in new macOS. If you want to recover lost files on system drive, please turn off the SIP temporarily.

How Can I do a recovery disk assistant for macOS High Sierra? My MacBook Pro: 15 inch, late 2011 macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 Memory: 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 Startup Disk: Macintosh HD Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB I have been having a lot of problems with my macBook. Some times it does not start. Some times it freezed. Some time the blue screen appers. It does work very very slow. Mac osx forcing me to put in credit card for app store free. Can somebody help me to at least, Tell me How can I Do a Recovery Disk?

Thanks in advance. Regards Carlos Gallego. You can easily make a bootable USB drive using these instructions: It's a bit more flexible than using the recovery partition, in my opinion.

After the disk check completes, the script will prompt you one last time. Click the button that corresponds to the version of macOS you'll be creating the Recovery Partition on. The script will request the location of the macOS Installer in order to extract the files necessary to create the partition.

You get access to the same Utilities, but without having to download the macOS every time you need to restore the system. To boot from the USB drive use these instructions: In addition, as your laptop is a 2011 model, I'd recommend using one of the previous macOS versions (say, El Capitan or Sierra), instead of High Sierra. You'll have to make a bootable USB drive for that particular version of macOS, then. Also, take note that a Time Machine backup made using High Sierra won't work with previous macOS versions, so be extra careful in this regard in order not to lose data. To do a recovery book you can follow the directions at Personally I suggest instead of doing that you use the program created by Etresoft, a frequent contributor.

It will provide a snapshot of your system which we can analyze to possibly determine the cause of your problem. Please use copy and paste as screen shots can be hard to read. On the screen with Options, please open Options and check the bottom 2 boxes before running. Click “Share Report” button in the toolbar, select “Copy to Clipboard” and then paste into a reply. This will show what is running on your computer.

No personal information is shown. You can easily make a bootable USB drive using these instructions: It's a bit more flexible than using the recovery partition, in my opinion. You get access to the same Utilities, but without having to download the macOS every time you need to restore the system. To boot from the USB drive use these instructions: In addition, as your laptop is a 2011 model, I'd recommend using one of the previous macOS versions (say, El Capitan or Sierra), instead of High Sierra. You'll have to make a bootable USB drive for that particular version of macOS, then.