Make A Bootable Disk For Mac

How to Set the Computer Boot from the Bootable Media. Step 1 Connect your external drive to your unbootable Mac. Step 2 Press down on the ‘Option’ key after restarting your Mac. Step 3 Once the booting has finished, your Mac will display the Startup Manager to show you the available boot drives. Make a bootable installer drive: The quick way There’s a free app called Install Disk Creator that you can use to make the installation drive. It has been updated to support High Sierra. Rufus (Windows) When it comes to creating a bootable USB drive in Windows, Rufus is undeniably.

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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

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.

Many users have faced issues while installing an Operating System on their personal computers. And one of the major reason for this is the need of a Bootable Disc/Disk. A Bootable Disc/Disk contains the setup files of an Operating System which boot automatically when the computer starts.

Requirements

A blank CD/DVD.
Mac OS X
Image file of Operating System. Usually it is .ISO

Procedure

Locate the image file. Right click on it. Open With, DiskImageMounter.
Go to Spotlight and search for Disk Utility.
Put the CD/DVD in the optical drive of your Mac.
Right click on the image file in Disk Utility and click on Burn ISO.

The image files will start writing on the disc and soon you will have a bootable disc/disk.

How To Make A Bootable Disk For Mac

Testing The Disc/Disk

Before testing the disc, make sure that the Optical Drive is on the top of the list in the boot order. To check the boot order, go to your computer’s BIOS settings. For each computer this is different, depending on the manufacturer.