Just had my HD replaced. Want to recover from Time Capsule. Should I be able to select Time Capsule drive on boot?
Prior to replacing the HD, I was able to hold the option key while powering on and it would prompt me for startup device. HD was formatted, but no OS install (thought I could just do Time Machine recovery). Connected to Time Capsule again (via Ethernet port) and option/power-on just sits there. Then tried PRam reset, and afterward, same behavior. Should this have worked?
Sorry for the delayed response. This indeed seemed to be the case: I connected my wife's MacBook to my iMac via firewire, connected my iMac to the Time Capsule via ethernet, held the option key while powering on, and was then able to restore via Time Capsule (hooray!). Interestingly, I first attempted to restore with the latest backup, which was from about 20 hours *after* I discovered that the iMac was displaying symptoms of HD corruption. At the end of restoration, the iMac would not reboot. I then restored again with a version of the backup from just before the last time I used the iMac with no problem and everything worked fine. I'm guessing that this means the time capsule backup actually stored a corrupted write at some point. I haven't done anything about it yet, but I'm wondering whether I should now create a fresh full backup. Thanks for the advice!
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