If you want to restore from your Mac’s Time Machine backup to the startup drive on the same Mac, keep reading. (To recover a single file or a handful of files, read The Simple Steps You Need to Know to Retrieve a File from Time Machine.)įirst, consider your goal. Let’s look at how to restore your entire startup drive: the system and library files, applications, your documents and data-everything. As long as you’ve made regular Time Machine backups, you have an excellent chance of returning your Mac to the way it was. Or maybe you upgraded to a new version of macOS and now your Mac won’t start up. Perhaps your boot drive died-it happens-and a new one has been installed. That’s because it’s necessary only when something has gone terribly wrong with your Mac. In an ideal world, you would never need to restore your Mac’s entire boot drive.
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