![]() ![]() Note that if you have already installed Mojave, clicking the “Get” button in the Mac App Store will launch System Preferences > Software Update and you’ll see the following dialog (see screenshot below). That’s not a problem since you can download it from the Mac App Store. If so, you probably won’t find the installer in your Applications folder. ![]() Perhaps you’ve already upgraded your Mac to macOS Mojave. The app is installed…but wait to launch it because there is more work to do first… Once you’ve located the disk image file, double click it to mount the disk image and a screen similar to the one below appears: (DiskMaker X 8 Installer Screen.)ĭrag the DiskMaker X 8 icon to the Applications folder alias as shown by the gray arrow on the installer screen. By default, it should be in the Downloads folder. To install DiskMaker X 8, find the installer disk image file. DiskMaker X is free of charge, but sending the developers a donation to support their work is always a good idea. There are other ways to make a bootable installation disk that require familiarity with the Mac command line, but DiskMaker X just makes the process much more “Mac-like” and transparent.Ĭlick the link above to download a copy of DiskMaker X 8 to your Mac. In this article we’ll show you how to create a bootable install drive. What’s so exciting about that? DiskMaker X 8 is a quick and easy way to create bootable install disks, and many Rocket Yard readers have used the free utility over the years so they have a flash or hard drive they can use for a clean install of macOS. Now all you have to do is restart your Mac and and after you here the chime sound, press the Option ( Alt ) key until you see the option to choose the flash drive to boot from.It’s autumn again the leaves are starting to fall, a new version of macOS has just shipped, and the team at DiskMaker has just released the newest version of DiskMaker X. When you’re done, the app will tell you that the boot disk is ready, you’ll see that your flash drive has been renamed as macOS 10.12 Install Disk and it will be opened. Once you enter your admin password, DiskMaker X will start copying the necessary Sierra files onto your flash drive. Now the app will format your flash drive and ask you for your admin password. The app will ask you about your thumb drive, and it will tell you that will be completely erased before copying macOS Sierra onto it…Ĩ. If you downloaded it from the app store ( step 2 ), choose ‘Use this copy’ħ. Once it found your Sierra copy, it will ask you if you want to use the copy that it found or you want to use another copy. Now, the app will search for a copy of macOS Sierra. You can choose Yosemite, El Capitan and of course, Sierra. When you load the app, it will ask you which version of macOS do you want to make a boot disk of. dmg file to open it and drag-and-drop the DiskMaker X app into the Applications folderĥ. ![]() Get an an empty flash drive with at least 8GB of storageĤ. Jump over the break to learn how to use DiskMaker X…ġ. ![]() You can use the Install drive to fully re-install the OS on a freshly formated drive, or install it on your many Macs without re-downloading the full installer. ![]()
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