STEP 1: Downloading macOS. Open App Store. Click Store then Login from the menu bar at the top. Login with your Apple ID.
There are a couple of reasons why you would want to create Windows 8.1 bootable USB flash drive on your Mac. Maybe you’ve decided to install Windows 8.1 on Mac without Boot Camp; or maybe your PC is unbootable and you want to prepare a bootable USB using the ISO file that you have on your external hard drive; or you want to easily create.
Download either or or NOTE: You can also download macOS from If you download macOS from somewhere other than the mac app store move the.dmg file to the /Applications Folder STEP 2: Formatting the USB Drive In order to have a usable flash drive it must be formatted in a scheme that allows for an EFI Partition. Once running macOS on your mac or follow these steps:. Insert Flash Drive. Open Disk Utility.
Select the Flash Drive on the left column. Click Erase.
Set the following settings:. Name: Hackintosher. Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Scheme: GUID Partition Map. Click Erase. Click Done upon finish. STEP 3: Creating the Installer.
Open Terminal through spotlight or launchpad. Copy the a section of text below depending on the release of macOS being installed. Thank you Hackintosher, i know your guide. But in your description for the installation you write we should delete the original EFI folder what’s created while creating the boot stick, but in my case, i do not have this EFI folder. When i open the EFI partition with clover configurator the partition is complete empty, no folder inside. So i don’t know if it’s correct when i just copy the High Sierra EFI into it?
Normally there should be an EFI folder, but i do not have it. So should i just copy the downloaded EFI folder in my EFI partition although when it’s empty? Greetings Marcus. And after trying it again i found the reason: The typical Apple motto “hide information because your users are dumb and dont want to see them” fucked me here again. Just do a “rm -f /Volumes/Install macOS High Sierra/.IAPhysicalMedia” and the installer will show the disk icon again. This seems to happen when you accidentally run your installer already on the mac where you downloaded it (at least run it a bit until the EULA dialog comes up).
I found this because i saw that the modify of the downloaded installer dmg had changed somehow. Hi, just a quick tip for High Sierra users in case it’s helpful to anyone else: when formatting the drive I noticed the option to select GUID partition was missing. I went along through the process anyhow and noticed the EFI folder was missing when copying over those settings. Needless to say the drive didn’t boot.
Turns out in High Sierra they’ve started hiding physical devices and only showing volumes, so I ended up only erasing the default volume, not partitioning the drive itself. Solution: choose View - Show All Devices and ensure you’re selecting the physical drive, not just one of its volumes. Thanks for the great advice. Hi, since I never used macOS I don’t know where the high sierra.dmg file is saved. When the “Install macOS High Sierra app” finished the download, it tried to restart the pc (it’s a virtual machine), so I closed the app and tried to run the terminal stuff, but it said: “/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app does not appear to be a valid OS installer application”, so I searched for the.dmg file in the “Install macOS High Sierra app” folder. The folder is only 19MB, an the installer is not there. I’m stuck right at the beginning and it’s really annoying.
I’ve followed your guide on how to get Mac OS X Sierra on a Virtual Machine(VMware) and that works. Now I’m attempting to create a USB installer. Vmware picks up the USB, I press connect, I hear the disconnect between windows noise and supposedly it’s connected to the virtual machine. However, when I go to Disk Utility the USB does not show up. I’ve looked up many solutions and yet to find one, now I’m commenting here hopefully for a response.
I tried to install from app store (app named macOS High Sierra, that I founded by the link you gived) and the file is only 15Mb. I tried to execute the command, by renaming “installer macOS High Sierra.app” by “install macOS High Sierra.app” (because I’m french). So I tried the command, and it returned “/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/MacOS/InstallAssistant does not appear to be a valid OS installer application.”. Then I’m looking for a DMG file of High Sierra, I founded, and I’m downloading, file is 1.9Gb,Am I doing right? Or am I mistaking?
Thanks for return ?. Hi Hackintosher, Im working to install High Sierra 10.13.6. Ive done this once successfully thanks to your concise instructions. I needed to fresh install and this second time around I am having issues very early in the install process.
When loading up the hack with the installer usb, Clover doesn’t show the option to boot from “mac OSX installer”. Ive gone through all your Bios instructions thoroughly and they are set as described in the ASROCK Z370 guide. Ive been stuck on this for the better part of today – any advice would be appreciated.
Creating USB driver in the latest Windows version has become a lot easier with the in-built ISO burners. Gone are the days when you used to download an ISO image file of the operating system and burn it into CD/DVD. USB flash drives has completely destroyed the usage of CD/DVDs and the main reason is its size, speed and portability. Bootable USB drivers simply means that you are preparing a USB flash drive to install an operating system.
Essentially, creating bootable USB drivers to install operating system of your choice varies from each Windows and Mac versions. In this short guide, we will show how to make or create a bootable USB from ISO file on all Windows version computers. Making a bootable driver is not similar to copying an ISO image file directly on the USB flash drive. Before creating a bootable USB from ISO, please remember to backup all data contained on your USB flash drive as using any trick from this guide will entirely wipe the data from your USB drive. If you're and can't recall the password at all, don't worry, will be extremely easy with the help of Windows Password Recovery Pro. Method #1: Make Bootable USB from ISO Using Command Prompt This part can be applied from any Windows version including Windows 10, 8, 7, XP and other older versions. It is indeed an old-fashioned method but it works like charm all the time.
Here's what to do – Step 1. Insert the USB flash drive on the computer and let the computer automatically detect it. Click on Start and start command prompt. Type 'DISKPART' and press enter to start the disk part utility. From here, you will have to enter a series of command. First, type 'List Disk' to see all the available drivers on the computer. Check the disk number of your flash drive and remember it.
Next, type 'Select Disk 1' considering Disk 1 is the USB flash driver and press Enter. Now keep on typing these series of commands. Clean - create partition primary - select partition 1 - active - format fs=fat32 When the formatting process is completed, simply type 'Assign' followed by exit. Now copy all the files of your operating system on to the USB flash drive and it is done. You can now install your operating system using the bootable USB flash drive.
Method #2: Create A Bootable USB using iSeePassword WizISO Making a Windows install disk isn't as simple as formatting a drive or copying ISO file to your USB drive on Windows and Mac OS X. You need to use a professional ISO Editor to write the ISO image to your USB instead of copying. Are you confused with the steps mentioned in above parts or they just didn't work? If that was the case, then it is the time to give a try on, it's an amazing tool to burn ISO image to USB with a built powerful burning engine. WizISO a ISO Toolkit which allows you to burn,extract, edit, create and copy disc without losing the bootable information.
This program provides two partition style MBR and UEFI model which allows you to make UEFI bootable drive. If you want to edit your ISO file,then just import it to the program and directly edit, add, delete, rename your ISO file then save it to a standard ISO format.
It supports 200+ USB brands mo matter it is old or new. The most important part is that it is super easy to use. Not convinced? Please check the tutorial below. Download iSeePassword WizISO from this website and install it on the computer.
(Windows version and Mac version all available). Open the program after installation and the main interface is shown like blow. Click 'Browse' button to find local ISO file and add it to computer. Now insert an USB drive to the computer and select the drive name from the list undert 'Create A Bootable USB'.
Finally, click 'Burn' button to start the burning process. It will take around 15 minutes to fully write the ISO file to USB. The actual time is depending on how lagre the file is. After that, you can take out the USB and use it to fix system issues. Pro:. High success rate with strong burning engine.
User-friendly interface that everyone can use it freely. Take less time for burning. Support both DVD and USB as burning media. Automatically detect correct file format before burning. Method #3: Make Bootable USB from ISO using RMPrepUSB RMPrepUSB is yet another ISO image file burning program that helps to create bootable USB flash drives. It is absolutely free to use and it's an open source tool.
Learn how to use Rufus. Download it from the official website and store it on your computer. It's ready-to-use program that needs no installation at all. You can open the program just by double clicking on it. Insert the USB flash drive and let it be recognized by the program automatically. Select the device name that you are using. It is recommended to use an 8 GB flash drive to run everything smoothly.
Leave the rest of the options to the default settings and select the ISO image file stored in your computer. Make sure to check 'Create a bootable disk' to make the USB driver bootable. Click on 'Start' to initiate the burning process and once it is finished, you can eject the flash drive. It now a ready-made bootable USB driver. Cons:. Quite complicated, not intended for the beginner. Don't support UEFI boot.
Don't provide any support. Creating a bootable USB flash drive can be really a hectic task if you don't know the right procedure. Hopefully, you guys were able to create a bootable USB driver by using the methods shared in this guide.
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