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Time Machine and Recovery Disk failures

I'm trying to restore my startup drive from Time Machine. It has succeeded (takes 30 hours which seems like a long time) but when I try to boot from it, it says "Can't bless the system files." and won't start up.

Then when I try to use Recovery Disk to reinstall High Sierra, it says "Can't install MacOS on this drive, it contains an existing OS or a damaged OS." This seems very odd, the fact that the system is damaged is exactly why I'm trying to reinstall.

Is there a workaround for this? The files seem to be there, but I need to reinstall High Sierra.

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1), The round Mac Pro 2014

Posted on Mar 12, 2018 3:01 PM

Time Machine and Recovery Disk failures

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