Timeline for How to restore Mac OS X on a new hard-drive?
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| Jan 8, 2015 at 20:27 | comment | added | Patrick McMahon | Most of the recent versions of OS X actually let you boot to the Time Machine drive, then restore it to the local hard disk. No need for a recovery partition or OS installation media. Just hold down Option at boot for the boot selection menu. Also, as this is a portable, I'd recommend formatting the target drive as HFS+ Encrypted. | |
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| Jan 1, 2014 at 19:02 | comment | added | laurent | I had an old MBP and I indeed needed a copy of OS X on USB stick (it seems any version that supports TM will do), from which I could restore my TM backup. Thanks for the info, without this I would have been stuck trying to restore the backup. | |
| Jan 1, 2014 at 19:00 | vote | accept | laurent | ||
| Dec 28, 2013 at 19:58 | history | edited | Bigtuna00 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2013 at 11:48 | comment | added | user10355 | You don't need a copy of OS X. From Lion up, OS X installs a Recovery Partition that can be accessed during boot for a full system restore. | |
| Dec 28, 2013 at 8:07 | history | answered | Bigtuna00 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |