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How to restore a failed external hard drive from Time Machine?
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My external hard drive has failed. It will no longer spin up and therefore is unmountable. Thankfully I had added it to my OSX Time Machine backups. So, since disks are cheap, I can just go buy a new, probably larger external drive and restore, right? But how do I tell Time Machine that this is a r…
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Naming the brand new drive the same as the old drive is the first step, but it doesn't get your files restored. After that you need to open the (empty) drive in Finder and then "Enter Time Machine" from the Time Machine icon in the Menu Bar. You can…
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