Having trouble restoring from Time Machine

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Having trouble restoring from Time Machine

I replaced my HD, on my iMac 2007 Intel 20"' model A1441. After formatting I tried to restore from Time Machine, but continue to receive error messages saying it can't restore the drive. I went over to disk utilities & restored from there, but it renames my hard drive to "time Machine Backup" so I have two backup disks. Is there a way to rename it? Because all the data transfers over. The whole thing is very frustrating! My system was running on OS 10.8.5.

Posted on Mar 5, 2015 7:30 PM

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Linc Davis

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Mar 5, 2015 8:40 PM in response to wolfdance

That's not how you restore from Time Machine. If you followed the instructions linked below and it didn't work, erase the volume and install OS X. When you restart, follow the prompts to transfer your data from a snapshot.

OS X Yosemite: Recover your entire system

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