Read more about everything, restore, Time Machine. Restart your Mac, as needed, and then login to your restored user account. It could take several hours if you have hundreds of gigabytes of data. In the Select A Destination window choose your Mac’s hard drive.Select your Time Machine drive as the source and click Continue.Click Continue until you’re prompted to Select a Backup Source.Choose the Restore From Time Machine option.You’ll see a window named OS X Utilities.Your Mac will now startup from it’s Recovery Partition that was created on your Mac’s new hard drive. Again, turn on your Mac and hold down Command-R.Now that OS X has been installed on your new hard drive, it’s time to restore everything from Time Machine.
(If you’re looking for instructions on how to restore an entire Time Machine backup on to a new Mac read this.) The restore process requires you to first install OS X onto the new hard drive and then restore everything from your most recent Time Machine backup. I’ve written previously about the importance of backups and how to set up and monitor Time Machine. It can be used to backup the contents of your Mac’s internal hard drive to an external hard drive or to an Airport Time Capsule. It comes bundled with every Mac that shipped with OS X 10.5 or higher. Here are instructions on how to restore all applications and personal files from a Time Machine backup onto a new hard drive. Time Machine is a backup application made by Apple. When this happens, a Time Machine backup can save your data. At some point, everyone will experience a hard drive failure.