How to create a bootable USB flash drive with Mountain Lion
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Keep handy bootable USB flash drive is quite useful and practical operating system. Even if the current system on your Mac happens armageddon and apocalypse, you can always recover your computer. In addition, this flash drive will save you from having to pump installer from the Mac App Store for each computer, if you use more than one Mac. Today we tell about how to make a bootable USB flash drive with Mountain Lion.
It is important to remember that if, after an application download Mountain Lion Installer you run it, the file is required to create a bootable USB drive, deleted, so you need to make a copy of the installer in a different directory, or create a bootable USB flash drive before you run the self attachment.
Why not create a bootable DVD drive instead of flash? Because USB flash drive to store more convenient, cheaper, and it does not scratch. Also, try setting ML to DVD to Macbook Air.
So, to create a bootable USB drive, we need:
- USB flash drive (really?) For 8 gigabytes or more
- Mountain Lion installer from the Mac App Store
- application Lion Diskmaker
Despite the fact that you can create a bootable USB flash drive without the help of third-party applications, free utility Lion Diskmaker It is much easier to handle. Enough to run the application, and it will do the rest itself. You just have to choose which version of OS X should boot from the USB device, specify the path to the installer and confirm the creation of a boot disk. No messing around with Disk Utility, etc.