Questions tagged [bootable-disk]
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No bootable device USB 2.0 MacBook Pro mid 2014
I've been tearing my hair out the last couple days trying to get Windows installed.
I have a MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch mid 2014. Yosemite version 10.10.1.
Win 7 64 bit iso (sha1 - ...
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Boot camp install of Windows issue, no bootable devices
So I have a 2010 15" macbook pro (MBP6,1) and I replaced the optical drive with a hard disk. I wanted to install windows 7 on the hard disk with boot camp with a USB and ISO image.
After searching I ...
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How to create a bootable OS X Snow Leopard USB drive?
How can I achieve this from either macOS Catalina or Windows 10? I can't seem to find a guide online. I've downloaded Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD from the Internet Archive. Keep in mind that ...
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Install Windows 7 on external drive and boot it from a Mac
I want to install Windows 7 on an external hard drive, and boot from it when needed.
Is this possible on a Mac? I have heard from some sources that it is not possible to boot Windows from external ...
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Partition Type : FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
I know this has been asked on here before, and similarly to the others I have not backed up my data... I found this duplicate and got lost in the answer and didn't want to mess too much with the ...
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Mac won't boot from USB drive: Prohibited sign
I tried to clean install OS X El Capitan on my Mac, but it won’t boot from the USB drive. Here are the steps I took to create the bootable USB drive (I have a Mid-2014 MacBook Pro with Retina Display):...
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How can you create a valid/reliable disk image of APFS drives?
Last year before Catalina was released, I tried to perform a disk image of my boot drive of Mojave (macOS 10.14) on a new computer before updating and customizing it. I have done this for years to ...
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How to create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick using OS X 10.10.2
I have downloaded the ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso. How do I create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick using my Macbook Air which is running OS X 10.10.2? I cannot create a bootable CD, since the Air is ...
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Error while creating OS X Mavericks bootable USB
I am running on OS X Mavericks GM and now that Mavericks has finally released, I downloaded it from App Store. I wanted to make a bootable USB of it so I followed This Tutorial but when I tried to run ...
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Will bootable usb created by bootcamp on mac work with PC?
I need to make a bootable usb with windows 8 files on it, I can't think of easier option than creating it via help of bootcamp, but Will it work for pc (I want to install files on my pc)?
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Unable to install an OS on Mac (prohibited sign)
I had an issue with my MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.6 13" (Early 2015) (MacBookAir7,2) and after repeated problems I decided to wipe the computer and give it a clean slate.
I downloaded a copy of ...
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How to create a Mac bootable gparted or Parted Magic thumb drive?
Is it possible to create a Mac-bootable thumb drive containing gparted or Parted Magic without installing a full Linux distribution?
I tried several methods like
unetbootin (some blogs suggest this ...
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Linux on Macbook, dual-boot, without rEFind
Is it possible to install a Linux distribution on a Macbook Pro partition and do a dual boot, without installing rEFind.
Thanks!
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System hangs when creating bootable disk drive
I followed the instructions provided in this answer which explains how to make an El Capitan bootable disk from a system running Catalina
I copied the commands exactly as prescribed, reproduced here:
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Mac pro early 2008 won´t boot from pendrive with yosemite install app
Mac pro 8 core early 2008 mountain lion installed.
I need to clean install Yosemite.
The pendrive does not show when you press alt, at the boot screen.
Nevertheless it shows on configuration startup ...
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How to make a bootable USB key from an .iso image on Mac OS X? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make a bootable USB flash drive for a MacBook Air?
How to make a bootable USB key from any .iso image on Mac OS X?
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How do I boot from a Windows USB with a Mac?
I'm trying to get my Mac to boot from a USB flash drive. I know the drive works and is bootable, because it works with my friend's Windows PC.
Specifically, I was running Windows 7 on my Mac to ...
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Clone one Mac and restore it on multiple Macs
I am going to setup a bunch of MacBooks Pros with the same settings. I could go through every Mac and install all the programs but here is what I would like to do.
I would like to setup one Mac with ...
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Can the contents of a partition be recovered after partition table is overwritten?
I ran a command to make my external hdd bootable knowing that it was risky considering the command itself did not allow me to specify a partition to which to write. (In hindsight, I would now call ...
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Cannot install macOS Sonoma to an external SSD on MacBook
I want to install macOS Sonoma from my M3 MacBook Air which runs Sonoma as well on the internal storage. (Specifically macOS version 14.5 on both internal and the one I try to install.)
My goal is to ...
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How can I boot my MacBook Pro from a DVD to update my SSD firmware
I have a MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 (mid-2011 model) running OS X 10.8.2. I upgraded to an SSD which I bought from Crucial and works just great. Crucial sent an email recommending I upgrade ...
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Failed to make bootable USB drive and now I can't even format it
I want to do a fresh install of Yosemite and I got a brand new 8GB flash drive and I followed this tutorial. I formatted the USB drive and was copying the Yosemite installer, however I got the ...
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Macbook Air 2019 will not boot from USB or complete Internet Recovery, Exhausted options
Internet Recovery fails. USB Boot fails. Target mode won't mount.
Macbook Air 2019 TrueTone, ran before I deleted the SSD (stupid). Battery shot, requires power supply to run.
Tried Internet Recovery ...
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Set up flash drive with multiple OS X Installers
Working in a tech shop, and being an Apple fan, I deal with ALL the Apple-related products. I'm seeing products from 10.4 to 10.7, and I have made a bootable flash drive from 10.6 (since it's the most ...
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How to set up an iMac not to look for USB Flash drive info during boot up?
Short question: is there a way to disable an iMac's USB Flash Drive boot up so that boot up time is faster?
Details:
My iMac has an external USB hub, and it has 3, 4 or sometimes 6 or 7 USB Flash ...
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Creating bootable FreeDOS DOS floppy diskette IMG file for V86 on OSX
I am trying to make a FreeDOS boot disk with OSX that's compatible with the V86 library. I need to do this in terminal (in a bash script). I'm doing all of this on OSX High Sierra.
The boot disk I'm ...
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El Capitan bootable installer on Mac Mini - "A required download is missing"
On a freshly created USB bootable disk for El Capitan (following these instructions which create a USB bootbale installer with sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/...
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How to install a bootable ISO onto a single partition of a usb stick?
Previous questions/answers dealt with the simple case of a single partition on the USB disk that was just overwritten with dd. Also it looks like the disk utility gui doesn't allow creation of ...
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No install location available in Mac Internet Recovery
I tried to start my Mac & a folder with a question mark appeared.
I researched on Google and discovered it was a problem with the Boot partition. I saw how to fix it. I used Opt ⌥ while booting ...
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Downloading Catalina to M1 for Intel Macbook [duplicate]
I need to download macOS Catalina and make a bootable USB for my macbook pro 2015 which has intel chip.
But have only m1 chip macbooks here, can't download from app store. It says
Not compatible for ...
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How to create a 10.6.8 recovery CD (not clone of the OS or install environment)
Upon Google searching people seem to equate "recovery CD" with full installation. I have seen methods such as using Disk Utility with the Mac HD as the source and a DVD as the destination. This ...
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Installing macOS on an external SSD fails (m1)
When trying to install MacOS on an external SSD, the internal SSD is always booted when restarting.
When I select the external SSD in the bootloader, it only shows that the installation is corrupt. In ...
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Error on EL Capitan Installation This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered
I have created bootable pendrive using https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201372
I am trying to dump ELCapitan on my mac.
but it throwing error
This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can'...
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How can I initiate OS X installation from a dmg in Windows on a Mac? [duplicate]
I have a MacBook Pro with a working BOOTCAMP partition running Windows 8, and a damaged OS X 10.10 beta partition. The problem is that I cannot boot with the OS X partition, and in order to reinstall ...
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Make and create Live USB Linux for Mac? How?
I'm wanting to create a live usb linux so I can easily access it everytime when I need it without taking up any space.
But with other sources, they say to rEFInd and I did so, however when restarting ...
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OS X Mavericks: InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg [duplicate]
I would like to make a bootable DMG or ISO file with OS X Mavericks on it.
I want to then burn this file to a DVD-ROM (or, alternatively, make a bootable
USB stick with it).
From what I've read, ...
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Creating a bootable usb for MacOS from Windows 10 [duplicate]
I've a MacBook Pro and recently my hard drive kicked the bucket. I bought a new ssd drive and installed it in my MacBook.
Now I have to create a bootable usb to install latest MacOS. I've spare a ...
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How to make a bootable USB drive from Install OS X El Capitan.app? [duplicate]
I wish to upgrade from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to anything higher.
Disk Utilities repair says the disk needs to be repaired. So, I need to boot onto something other than the boot drive to run disk ...
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Is it really not possible to run an earlier version of OS X than what the machine shipped with?
Just got a 2019 iMac, shipped with Mojave installed obviously. It never even occurred to me that it may not be able to run an earlier version of OS X, but after wasting tons of time trying to create a ...
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Macbook Lion Recovery Disk Utilities cannot detect newly installed SSD
I just installed the SSD and I cannot detect the SSD in Disk Utilities of the recovery disk. Even trying to restore from time machine backup it cannot find any disk it can restore to. I am restoring ...
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I removed the rEFInd and rEFIt boot managers and now I've lost Windows Bootcamp from the Mac Startup Manager
I installed rEFInd boot manager because I wanted to add a linux partition. I already had bootcamp set up.
However, after installing rEFInd, my Mac UI scaling was too large and slightly blurred. I have ...
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Cannot detect bootable USB
I have a problem with installing windows:
USB Details:
Before I created a (what I classify as) bootable disk properly, I have went through the USB being corrupted because of me killing the dd ...
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Installing El Capitan from a bootable DVD
I have El Capitan on a bootable DVD. I restart my Mac and hold the option key until the disks come up and I choose EFI Boot (name of the disk is different than what it shows at the time of booting). ...
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What is the partition size needed for The Mavericks install disk?
I will setup a USB key to install Mavericks.
I would like to know the needed size of the partition to install Mavericks.
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How to change USB scheme when making bootable Catalina installer?
Background: Upgraded to Big Sur on 2020 MacPro (not the one with M1 chip), hate it, trying to revert to Catalina using a USB bootable installer (followed instructions given at the Apple website How to ...
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Replace Recovery HD with a “bootable drive” formatted partition?
A while ago, I had the idea to use the bootable Mac OS X USB drive-making procedure on a hard drive partition, so that I could basically have a version of the “Recovery HD” that doesn’t need to ...
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