When I need to tend to a bunch of Macs, it’s much faster to use a bootable drive instead of going to each Mac, launching the App Store, searching for the operating system, downloading it (after. Download Mac Lion Installer from App Store. Latest versions of Mac are only available through App. Download Windows ISO file. Go to the Microsoft official website and download the free ISO file for. Step-5 (Format the USB Drive for Mac) Select the USB Drive that you want to format for Mac and finally right click on it and hit on Format Disc for Mac. Step-6 ( Create Bootable USB drive) Select the USB Drive that you want to make it bootable and finally right click on it and hit on Restore with Disc Image. The 1st third party software which can create bootable USB is TransMac. Basically, it is not an open source software, it has the trial of 15 days. After 15 days you won’t be able to create bootable USB for Mac with TransMac. So, try to find a portable software of TransMac.
Bootable Usb Drives Mac
With a bootable Ubuntu USB stick, you can:
- Install or upgrade Ubuntu, even on a Mac
- Test out the Ubuntu desktop experience without touching your PC configuration
- Boot into Ubuntu on a borrowed machine or from an internet cafe
- Use tools installed by default on the USB stick to repair or fix a broken configuration
Creating a bootable USB stick is very simple, especially if you’re going to use the USB stick with a generic Windows or Linux PC. We’re going to cover the process in the next few steps.
Apple hardware considerations
Bootable Usb Disk Format Utility
There are a few additional considerations when booting the USB stick on Apple hardware. This is because Apple’s ‘Startup Manager’, summoned by holding the Option/alt (⌥) key when booting, won’t detect the USB stick without a specific partition table and layout. We’ll cover this in a later step.