Recovering your Mac

Follow the instructions below to recover your Mac when it cannot start or when it is working incorrectly.

To recover your Mac:

  1. Make sure that you have:
  2. Plug in the bootable media to your Mac.
  3. Start or restart your Mac. Press and hold the Option key while the Mac is starting. The boot menu will be displayed.
  4. Choose Acronis Media as a device to boot from. The OS X Utilities list is displayed.

  5. Select Recover from Acronis True Image Backup, and then click Continue.
  6. In the window that opens, choose the location of your backup:
  7. From the list, select the backup version from which you want to recover your Mac, and then click Next. The contents of the version are displayed.
  8. Select the check boxes next to the partitions that you want to recover.

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  9. Select a destination for each partition.
  10. To start recovery, click Recover, and then confirm that you want to erase all data on the destination partitions.
  11. When recovery is complete, restart your Mac.

See also

What is Acronis® True Image™ 2016?

System requirements

Basic concepts

Backing up to local or network storage

Backing up to Acronis Cloud

Creating bootable rescue media

When do I recover my Mac?