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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1842577" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>The Time Machine Interface is not designed to restore the whole computer but it can do so as part of a Restore of the Operating System. So if you device crashes and you need to restore the entire hard drive you can do that from the either the Restore Partition, accessed by booting while holding down the R key or booting from the Time Machine external drive using the Option key on startup. From there you can access Disk Utility and reinstall the operating system. As part of that process you can restore all of your files, folders, apps and data from the Time Machine backup as well. I don't understand why Apple were baffled by this, it has always been this way.</p><p></p><p>As for BU's I agree wholeheartedly with what has already been said.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1842577, member: 204485"] The Time Machine Interface is not designed to restore the whole computer but it can do so as part of a Restore of the Operating System. So if you device crashes and you need to restore the entire hard drive you can do that from the either the Restore Partition, accessed by booting while holding down the R key or booting from the Time Machine external drive using the Option key on startup. From there you can access Disk Utility and reinstall the operating system. As part of that process you can restore all of your files, folders, apps and data from the Time Machine backup as well. I don't understand why Apple were baffled by this, it has always been this way. As for BU's I agree wholeheartedly with what has already been said. [/QUOTE]
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