Restoring from TM - An error occurred while adding a recovery system to the destination disk

[james-bailey]

I have a macbook 13 inch 2012 on High Sierra and its refusing to boot further than the status bar the turns itself off.

I have a recent TM backup.

Erased the HD, Guid partition OS Journelled using a different mac and reinstalled it.

Held down CMD - R, selected restore from TM backup but keep getting the same message An error occurred while adding a recovery system to the destination disk

I have also tried the other option of installing just the OS Mavericks from recovery mode but that gives the same error.

Very confusing?

Each time I boot an press CMD R it goes into internet recovery which takes about 6 minutes to load which is annoying, is there a quicker method of getting to recovery?

Ideas and help would be greatfully received thanks!

 

[james-bailey]

Bit of an update

could the problem be that the internet recovery is OS X Mavericks and my TM machine backup is High Sierra?

 

[KeesMacPro]

There are other options too you could try to revive your MBP.

For example you could make a bootable USB High Sierra installer with createinstallmedia on another Mac and try to install HS on the MBP.

If the same error occurs , my guess is a hardware problem e.g. failing disk or (typical for the 2012 non-Retina) the flex cable .
DriveDX is an excellent tool for checking disk health.

If all works you'll have a clean install of HS and with Migration Assistant you can recover all your data from the TM backup.