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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1950725" data-attributes="member: 204485">Assuming all that works as expected you will now have an empty HD called&nbsp; Aura Pro X2 Media with a Container and a Volume called Macintosh HDQuit the Disk Utility and returning to the original window you should see Instal macOS Catalina or words to that effect.&nbsp; Click that.This will begin the installation of a fresh copy of macOS Catalina eventually (it will take a while) at the end of the process the Mac should restart, thus booting from the internal drive which should&nbsp; open as the &quot;Hello&quot; screen you see on a brand new Mac.&nbsp; from there it is exactly the same as setting up a new Mac.&nbsp; You can eject the USB if you can see it, not a necessity.Plug in your External HD with Time Machine on board and continue the setup process until it asks things like &quot;Do you want to encrypt the contents?&quot;&nbsp; Say NO, you can always do this later.&nbsp; &quot;Do you want to store Documents and Desktop folders in iCloud?&quot;&nbsp; Say NO, again you can do this later.&nbsp; BE AWARE some of these options may be ON by default so read carefully and turn them OFF.Eventually you will get to &quot;Do you want to import data from another source?&quot; or words to that effect.&nbsp; Say YES, choose your Time Machine backup.You will be given options of what to Restore usually I would choose ALL but this is up to you.&nbsp; You can obviously restore stuff you've missed later but deleting is easier than restoring so...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1950725, member: 204485"] Assuming all that works as expected you will now have an empty HD called Aura Pro X2 Media with a Container and a Volume called Macintosh HD Quit the Disk Utility and returning to the original window you should see Instal macOS Catalina or words to that effect. Click that. This will begin the installation of a fresh copy of macOS Catalina eventually (it will take a while) at the end of the process the Mac should restart, thus booting from the internal drive which should open as the "[I]Hello" [/I]screen you see on a brand new Mac. from there it is exactly the same as setting up a new Mac. You can eject the USB if you can see it, not a necessity. Plug in your External HD with Time Machine on board and continue the setup process until it asks things like "Do you want to encrypt the contents?" Say NO, you can always do this later. "Do you want to store Documents and Desktop folders in iCloud?" Say NO, again you can do this later. BE AWARE some of these options may be ON by default so read carefully and turn them OFF. Eventually you will get to "Do you want to import data from another source?" or words to that effect. Say YES, choose your Time Machine backup. You will be given options of what to Restore usually I would choose ALL but this is up to you. You can obviously restore stuff you've missed later but deleting is easier than restoring so... [/QUOTE]

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