I have a 3TB Seagate USB external drive (MBR scheme), divided in 2 primary partitions: one of ~500 GB has been created and formatted on Windows using Paragon Partition Manager with HSF+.
I did a full system backup using Time Machine to this partition (apparently, successfully – or so I thought). (Directly, not as an image.)
When I try to follow this tutorial: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14185 , as soon as I press Command R, I get thrown into an Internet Recovery, which takes about an hour to complete. I might be wrong, but, according to some research I've done, this should be the behavior when I don't have a dedicated recovery partition? If so – I don't see the point in creating the full system backup if I cannot readily make use of it.
After said hour passes, I am presented with the options that should have readily been available to begin with, and I am able to do a system restore from the Time Machine
.
Said restore, though, ends after a while in (what should have been?) a boot screen: I get the spinning wheel but the Apple logo is switched for a "crossed O" as in, the "Access denined" symbol.
How could I prevent the Internet Recovery to take place, go directly to perform a Time Machine recovery? Any suggestions about the second issue, might they be connected somehow?
Best Answer
Your problem is almost certainly related to partitioning on a Windows machine. You can verify this by using Disk Utility to look at the Drive, in particular the
Partition Map Scheme
. This needs to beGUID Partition Table
but is probably MBR.You would need to repartition on OS X, but this will need you to erase all data.