If this list doesn’t contain either Apple_Boot Recovery HD or APFS Volume Recovery, then it means your Mac doesn’t have a recovery partition. The Terminal will now display a list of all your drives and partitions. Press the “Enter” key on your keyboard.Copy/paste the following into the Terminal:.
You can perform this check, using the Terminal application: The first step, is to verify that your Mac is definitely lacking a Recovery partition. Are your really missing a Recovery partition?