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Q: Hard drive failed - steps to restore from time machine

The HD on my aging iMac died and I have had to have a new drive installed as a stopgap measure. My question is this: the new drive has OS X El Capitan loaded which is the same as the old one ran. How do I restore from my most recent time machine back up and will it load the Apps (such as MS Office, iBank, Chrome etc) or will I need to load these first?  I also understand I need to create a new user first to avoid any conflict over usernames. It is an old iMac and I wanted to recover everything first before buying an entirely new machine since I am hopeful that Apple will update the iMac line soon. 


many thanks 


iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11), 4GB RAM

Posted on Sep 12, 2016 4:04 PM

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