

Select the mounted disk image volume that you would like to restore.from the File menu and select the disk image file that you would like to restore from. If you are restoring to an APFS volume, choose the parent APFS container. Reselect the volume that you would like to restore to.Click the Erase button in the toolbar and proceed to erase the device using the GUID Partition Map partitioning scheme, and the format that matches your source disk image.Click on the device you want to restore to in the sidebar (see this article for specific formatting instructions).Choose Show All Devices from the View menu.Choose Disk Utility in the Utilities application.

Hold down Command+R while you restart your computer.

This limitation is specific to Disk Utility – if you're restoring from a disk image using CCC, CCC can restore an APFS disk image to an HFS+ volume, and you can restore an HFS+ disk image to an APFS volume. Note: The destination volume format must match the format of the disk image that you're restoring from. If you do not have an installation of macOS on another hard drive, you can boot your Mac from your macOS Recovery volume and use Disk Utility to restore the entire disk image: High Sierra and Mojave Restoring system files to your startup disk when you don't have a bootable backup Once you have booted your Mac from another volume, follow the steps from the previous section. If you want to restore system files to your startup disk, you must start up your Macintosh from an installation of macOS on another hard drive, such as a bootable backup created by CCC. Restoring system files to your startup disk from the Clone menu (below the Source selector) and deselect any item that you do not wish to restore.
