New macbook owner - best recovery media option?

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Hi all,

Picked up a macbook air 2014 model and all good so far. Doesn't come with any recovery media so assume that to restore it the macbook has a recovery partition on the SSD, but what if the SSD is infected and a full restore is needed?

Are you able to download OS X Mavericks on a seperate machine as an ISO and create a bootable USB stick like with Windows, or do you need to create a recovery USB whilst the Macbook is new as you cannot download an ISO? What is the best option? All I want is a way to restore the OS to blank and new if the recovery on HDD becomes broken for whatever reason.

Cheers

 

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Cheers - the internet recovery worked after bootcamp messed up the partitions on the disk! Downloaded from Command + R and reinstalled itself. Will create a USB restore at some point too incase I am ever away from internet!