Create USB installer with Boot Camp Assistant After downloading the ISO file, you'll need to use Boot Camp Assistant to move it to a bootable USB drive. • Insert a USB flash drive to your Mac. Make sure it's at least 8GB, which is usually marked on the USB stick. You can also check by right-clicking the USB drive on your desktop and clicking Get Info.

Check if the number next to Capacity is at least 8GB. All the files in the drive will be deleted, so make sure there are no important documents inside. • Open Boot Camp Assistant. The easiest way to launch it is through Spotlight Search, which you can bring up by pressing Command and Spacebar.

Press Enter to launch the app. • Check the box for 'Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk' and deselect 'Install Windows 7 or later version.' • Click Continue to proceed. • Boot Camp Assistant will automatically locate the ISO file from your downloads folder, but make sure it is the right file. Click the 'Choose' button and locate the ISO file.

Sep 13, 2018 - macOS Mojave Installer, available from the Mac App Store. A 16GB or larger USB flash drive. Notice: USB drive is needed for a clean install on.

Make sure the destination disk is the USB thumb drive you've inserted. • Click Continue.

It can take about 20 minutes to format and set up the USB installer on the Mac. • When Boot Camp Assistant is done, the USB drive will be renamed to WININSTALL. Click Quit to close the app and then Eject the USB drive. You now have a bootable USB drive with the Windows 10 installer.

You can use it to from scratch. We told you it was easy! Have you tried creating a Windows 10 installer USB drive from a Mac before?

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If you're thinking about installing, the first thing to consider is whether you want to install it directly onto your Mac or create a bootable drive. You can use a bootable drive on a for dual-software installation, to install on multiple Macs in your home, or as a bootable drive if you can't use the Internet Recovery partition. Note: These instructions require the use of Terminal. If you don't feel comfortable making changes to your Mac with Terminal, you can create a bootable disk using the. How to format your external drive for macOS Mojave You'll need to start with a clean thumb drive or external hard drive in order to make it a bootable drive.

• Plug the thumb drive or cable for your hard drive into the appropriate port on your Mac. • Click on Finder in your Dock to open a Finder window. • Select Applications from the list on the left side of the window.

• Scroll down and double-click on Utilities. • Scroll down and double-click on Disk Utility. • Select your thumb drive or external drive under External. • Click on the Erase tab at the top of the window.

• Note the name of your external hard drive (probably 'Untitled') because you will need it when you create a bootable drive. If you have more than one external drive with the same name, you will need to rename the drive you are using as a bootable installer now. • If your Mac is using AFS+, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the format list. If your Mac is using APFS, select APFS from the list of options.

• If Scheme is available, select GUID Partition Map. • Click Erase. • Click Done when the process is complete. • Close the Disk Utility window. Your thumb drive or external hard drive is now ready. How to put macOS Mojave onto your external drive Important: You will need to use an administrator account on your Mac in order to run the Terminal commands to create a boot drive.