Using a 2010 13'' MacBook Pro.
Using an external drive to recovery and reintall my OSX using Time Machine. Time Machine was successful, yet when it went to restart, it went straight back to OSX Recovery, giving me the option to do it all over again.
Hi mstebenne,
The resource below explains how to use OS X Recovery to reinstall to reinstall your operating system and restore from your Time Machine backup.
Which version of OS X is installed by OS X Recovery?
- If you use the Recovery System stored on your startup drive to reinstall OS X, it installs the most recent version of OS X previously installed on this computer.
- If you use Internet Recovery to reinstall OS X, it installs the version of OS X that originally came with your computer. After installation is finished, use the Mac App Store to install related updates or later versions of OS X that you have previously purchased.
Additional Information
Some drive partition configurations can result in the OS X Installer reporting that it cannot create a Recovery System. If this happens, you might want to quit the installation and create an external OS X hard drive with a Recovery System first. You can continue installing OS X on your computer's startup drive after creating an external Recovery System.
OS X Recovery must be present on the computer's startup drive in order to use FileVault full disk encryption. Using RAID partitions or non-standard Boot Camp partitions on the startup drive might prevent OS X from installing a local Recovery system. See "OS X: Some features of Mac OS X are not supported for the disk (volume name)" for more information.
OS X Recovery includes a version of Safari with links to resources at Apple's support websitethat you can use to get additional help. The network requirements listed above also apply to the version of Safari included with OS X Recovery. Plugins and Safari Extensions cannot be added to the version of Safari included with OS X Recovery.
Last Modified: Feb 20, 2015
Take care,
Try restarting while holding down the Alt/Option key. This should start to the Startup Manager where you can select the drive you want to boot into. Select your internal Macintosh HD (or whatever it's named) and see if it boots to your Desktop. If it does, then open System Preferences/Startup Disk and select your internal Macintosh HD drive to always start from.
After OSX Time Machine Recovery and a restart, computer goes straight back to OSX Recovery.
