Hello all,
I am having issues doing a full restore from a time machine backup on my sister's computer.
I upgraded her 250GB hard drive to a WD Black 750GB drive and started up the computer holding down the option key with my time machine backup drive connected via USB.
After selecting the time machine drive to get it into recovery mode, all I got was a folder icon with a question mark in it.
I then attached the original 250GB drive into the other USB port with a SATA to USB adapter and was able to get it to boot from that recovery partition without an issue.
The problem starts when I try to do the restore. I have formatted the new drive with 1 partition and a GUID partition table.
The restore will start and run until it gets to about 2% and then it states that the restore could not complete to restart and try again.
Restarting over and over yields the same error each time I attempt the restore.
Also, something I found kind of strange on the original 250GB drive is that she has Mavericks 10.9.4 installed but the recovery partition was a Mountain Lion recovery partition. I don't think this should make much of a difference but wanted to throw it out there incase it did.
Thanks in advance for any help/advise you can give. Normally I have no issues with this, I even restored my own computer from a time machine backup just a few months ago but this one is annoying me on a brand new drive that should've been a simple swap.
I am having issues doing a full restore from a time machine backup on my sister's computer.
I upgraded her 250GB hard drive to a WD Black 750GB drive and started up the computer holding down the option key with my time machine backup drive connected via USB.
After selecting the time machine drive to get it into recovery mode, all I got was a folder icon with a question mark in it.
I then attached the original 250GB drive into the other USB port with a SATA to USB adapter and was able to get it to boot from that recovery partition without an issue.
The problem starts when I try to do the restore. I have formatted the new drive with 1 partition and a GUID partition table.
The restore will start and run until it gets to about 2% and then it states that the restore could not complete to restart and try again.
Restarting over and over yields the same error each time I attempt the restore.
Also, something I found kind of strange on the original 250GB drive is that she has Mavericks 10.9.4 installed but the recovery partition was a Mountain Lion recovery partition. I don't think this should make much of a difference but wanted to throw it out there incase it did.
Thanks in advance for any help/advise you can give. Normally I have no issues with this, I even restored my own computer from a time machine backup just a few months ago but this one is annoying me on a brand new drive that should've been a simple swap.