#Make a recovery usb for a mac install#
#Make a recovery usb for a mac free#

For newer Macs, use a USB 3.0 drive-it makes things significantly faster.

An 8GB or larger USB flash drive or an 8GB or larger partition on some other kind of external drive.

We've created El Capitan USB stick from both Yosemite and El Capitan, but your experience with other versions may vary.

A Mac that you have administrator access to, duh.

Insert the Chrome OS USB recovery drive into a spare USB port on the Chromebook.

Please insert a recovery USB stick or SD card, then you'll be safe in the knowledge that you have a prepared by creating a recovery USB drive. Creating a Bootable USB Using Terminal: The terminal is the default gateway to the command line on a Mac. Create a Bootable drive with the help a third party compression software, which is available for free. Here are the methods to create a bootable USB drive on Mac. You’ll also need access to a Mac running Yosemite that includes an existing.

#Make a recovery usb for a mac free#

To create a recovery disk, you need a USB flash drive or an external hard drive that has at least 1GB free space.

Before you proceed, make sure you have a backup of the flash drive's contents or that you don’t care that the data will be erased.

Creating the bootable OS X El Capitan installer will erase the USB flash drive you're using.

#Make a recovery usb for a mac install#

After successfully creating the bootable USB thumb drive with macOS High Sierra using windows 7, then booting the macbook air mid 2011 with the created bootable USB thumb drive plugged in and then choosing the boot and install macOS High Sierra (the default highlighted option.

There's the super easy way with the graphical user interface and the only slightly less easy way that requires some light Terminal use. Whatever the reason, you're in luck, because it's not hard to make one.Īs with last year, there are two ways to get it done. Or maybe you need a recovery disk for older Macs that don't support the Internet Recovery feature. For instance, if you find yourself doing multiple installs, a USB drive may be faster than multiple downloads (especially if you use a USB 3.0 drive). Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.7 switched to download-only installers, but there are still good reasons to want an old, reliable USB stick. It was 2009 when Apple last released a new operating system on physical media.