Time Machine error message while restoring..."an error occurred while adding a recovery system to the destination disk

I had to change my hard drive in my MBP 15". I use Time Machine on a Time Capsule for backup. I am booting up my laptop with a bootable USB key. I have partitioned my new hard drive (bigger than the old one) and named it Macintosh HD (same as the old one). I select the option to restore from Time Machine Backup. I select one of my latest backup....select my destination drive...the restore process starts but stop within minutes with the following message. "An error occurred while adding a recovery system to the destination disk" It then prompts me to restart....

I need your help...what can it be.

Thanks

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Sep 28, 2012 7:48 PM

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Jamizzl

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Posted on Feb 3, 2013 10:53 AM

I had this problem, and for me the problem was that when I partitioned my new drive, i forgot to click the "options" and select "GUID Partition Table" (under the 1 partition map picture). As soon as I went back to disk utility and repartitioned with a "GUID Partition Table", the Time Machine backup restore worked!

See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

See the What to do if the installer warns that no Recovery HD can be created section.

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Eric Root

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Dec 31, 2016 8:17 AM in response to grantyg1991

Bootable USB Flash Drive.

alpirrie

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Nov 21, 2017 7:49 AM in response to Spoon Monkey

This was very helpful, but trying again after the first reboot still produced the error. I need to do a complete install of the original operating system. I could then restart - use cmd-R - to restore from my backup.

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