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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!