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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1506178" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>If you purchased a new machine it came pre-installed with Mountain Lion. By booting to the recovery partition (assuming the hard drive is operable) you can do a complete restore direct from the Time Machine backup drive.</p><p></p><p>However, the scenario you presented (hard drive crash) is a bit more involved. You would first have to install the operating system to the new hard drive and then recover your data from Time Machine. Which is why most of us also recommend making a cloned backup of your hard drive (which is bootable) using software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. I personally use CCC because it also clones the recovery partition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1506178, member: 46727"] If you purchased a new machine it came pre-installed with Mountain Lion. By booting to the recovery partition (assuming the hard drive is operable) you can do a complete restore direct from the Time Machine backup drive. However, the scenario you presented (hard drive crash) is a bit more involved. You would first have to install the operating system to the new hard drive and then recover your data from Time Machine. Which is why most of us also recommend making a cloned backup of your hard drive (which is bootable) using software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. I personally use CCC because it also clones the recovery partition. [/QUOTE]
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