In all these scenarios, you have to bring back everything. Maybe your hard drive fails, so you go to the store and you buy a brand new blank hard drive, is blank, how do you recover from blank? You can't install iCloud on it. So you format your computer and you restore from Time Machine. Maybe you get a virus, right? Once you have a virus, even if you have antivirus software and it says it's clean, you don't really know you're clean. So what would be the scenario where we would need to restore the entire computer? - Well, hopefully, there's no scenario where hopefully you don't ever have to do this, but it does happen, right? So potentially let's say that your operating system becomes corrupted, right? So you can't even boot into MacOS, well, if you've got a Time Machine backup, you can just restore. (chuckles) Alright, to clarify, if your computer's messed up, not if you are messed up, well, we can't fix that with Time Machine, but in this episode, we're going to learn how to use Time Machine to completely recover our system, if we just treat it as nonrecoverable, we're going to blow it away, you'll see how to use Time Machine to get the things together that you need actually boot to recovery, start that restore and get your system back up and operational in short order.
I am Zach and this is Don and we're so glad to have you here, now what do you do if you're so messed up, you have to start from ground zero. (upbeat music) - Hello, welcome back to Apple Certified Support Professional, MacOS 11 Big Sur. So, what do you do if your Mac is so messed up, you have to start from scratch? Can Time Machine help us? Let's talk.
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