How to Install macOS from a thumb drive. (Create and use a bootable drive

How to Install macOS from a thumb drive. (Create and use a bootable drive - easy!)

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In this video, I take you through all the steps necessary to create a bootable macOS install thumb drive, then use it to install macOS (Monterey in this case) onto a new ssd drive in a Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, etc.
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@markfreemantle7608 4 ай бұрын

After about a dozen attempts from other internet sources I found your video. Restoring to the Original OS solved the problem. Greatly appreciated.

@timothyhowe5369 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I used an old thumb drive, followed your directions, and was able to install it on my old Mac. Worked great!

@DCEmusicLife 3 ай бұрын

Works perfectly if you follow the steps as he says I even used the method for an older instrument version. Great job guy

@Cheeseandchili Жыл бұрын

Super helpful, worked exactly as described 😊

@thedxva 3 ай бұрын

Bro your boot portion or the video helped me a lot ❤

@user-qw1ti4sd5k Ай бұрын

excellent. Very clear and thorough instructions. The best KZfaq on how to make a bootable external drive.

@ers247 3 ай бұрын

dude thank you for doing this. It helped me and was able to get it installed

@soldierscraft9213 Жыл бұрын

Oh man I have been going for hours trying to solved this thank you soooo much I really appreciate it I’m sub and like 👍

@FamilyGeekery Жыл бұрын

Happy to help. Thanks for watching!

@eduardoolguin109 2 ай бұрын

You are a life saver! Did this for my 2015 MacBook Pro and it worked perfectly!

@ceesstapel1200 3 ай бұрын

Great information, I used an old hard drive to install the MACOS since thumb drive didn't want to configure to GUID

@woolybooly6859 Жыл бұрын

You are a savior!! You provided easy directions to install Big Sur on my "new" 2013 MacBook Pro with a new Samsung 500GB nvme which you also showed me how to install. A BIG Thank You!! 😀

@dapindersandhu8690 Ай бұрын

Did you used m.2 converter?

@carlmitchell5659 22 күн бұрын

Lifesaver, very informative video, the step by steps were brilliant.

@FamilyGeekery 22 күн бұрын

Glad to help. Thanks for watching!

@OMPrograms Жыл бұрын

this was wildly helpful!

@abihailagcaoili1507 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, works perfectly fine!

@mrdsfpv957 Ай бұрын

The best help, thank you, spent days trying to wipe and reinstall, creating the installer directory to the usb drive by dragging and dropping was amazing. Worked first time

@FamilyGeekery Ай бұрын

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching.

@rogerlinder8606 2 ай бұрын

best ever tutorial so Thanks m8 best wishes n all from Sweden //RL 👍👍👍

@samaramarzola 6 ай бұрын

Much appreciated, worked like a charm.

@kevinallenpederson Ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for the info!

@sydro8242 4 ай бұрын

Thanks man, you made my day

@TheUndefeatedLegend Жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy helped me out!

@user-yg5gk3bv5w 7 ай бұрын

You saved my life... Thank you.

@robertsmaraniks5035 Ай бұрын

By far the best video with good explanation, thank you 👍🏻

@FamilyGeekery Ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Happy to help.

@jacobcolgan7043 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the help

@olesyagolub518 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! This fixed my problem.

@FamilyGeekery 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@cx717cx717 5 ай бұрын

Thank You for guide.

@TechieWeb3 20 күн бұрын

Thank you so much ❤

@eagleboycortes 7 ай бұрын

Hi again. Finished installing the new SSD and installing a fresh copy of Catalina on it. This video was crucial to my success. I appreciate you for taking the time to guide us all through the process. Next step is to take this old midd 2012 girl to Sonoma OS.

@FamilyGeekery 7 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@aerocreates 3 ай бұрын

How did you get the 2012 to Sonoma? The same OS Boot disk?

@eagleboycortes 3 ай бұрын

@@aerocreates since this was done about four months ago, I don’t fully recall. I think I used two separate thumb drives. One with Catalina, and one with Sonoma. I also kept the original hard drive with High Sierra just in case anything went wrong. My laptop didn’t end up liking Sonoma very much and so I set it back to Catalina. Might try for Sonoma again now since there have been more patches/updates.

@AndersonPalma 3 ай бұрын

thanks, helped a lot!

@malarenu 6 ай бұрын

Hello, This MACOS will work in Macbook Pro 2015. My current Mac OS X Yosemite ver 10.10.5. This os is not support to sync on my Iphone 14pro in iTues and need to install os x 10.11.4 or later. Your input will helpful for me. or better to install windows.

@hamzaeldahrawy1370 6 ай бұрын

I really hope u reply so I did everything perfect but the when it’s downloaded I can’t connect to the Wi-Fi it’s not even detecting anything also a white screen appears as the wallpaper. I also noticed that it doesn’t run without the flash drive

@MathieuGoldstein 3 күн бұрын

Awesome, it works! Thanks so much! I could restore my system

@FamilyGeekery 3 күн бұрын

Happy to help. Thanks for watching!

@a_aronhdtech1328 3 ай бұрын

life saver. Thanks

@bryanbeddingfield5489 Жыл бұрын

ive got a 13 inch 2019 macbook that a girlfriend gave me she said her dads girlfriend left it at her dads house. she wanted to see if i could get the previous owners id off and reinstall mac os i know this is sketch but im being honest with you. technically its a hot device but i cant return it so how can i make it useful? i already erased it but when i tried to boot it from a thumbdrive it wouldnt let me. its basically bricked now and the girl isnt coming around anymore so i would like to jail break it or something first of all what do you think and second will you make a video on how to do that?

@YulianGyurov Жыл бұрын

Steps 1. Download installation macos image (stop before actual starting installation - i.e. before Continue screen) 2. Finder - find downloaded installation package - Right-Click - Show Package Contents - Open folder Resources - click on Create Install Media 3. Open Terminal 4. Type sudo space -drag and drop from Create Install Media - space - type --volume space - drag and drop from USB drive 5. Enter - Erase drive - Yes 6. OK - (USB drive created) 7. Reboot with USB drive inserted - press and hold ALT/Option Key 8. Install Mac OS 9. Disk Utility - give name and erase 500 GB NVMe drive - Close Disk Utility 10. Install Mac OS

@lindseyh-hw5gl 7 ай бұрын

More helpful than the Apple guide, thank you.

@joelleleonard 7 ай бұрын

That's looking really quite easy, at least do-able for not so techy people like me. I can't wait to give it a try as soon as my new usb drive has arrived. Thank you for sharing 🙏

@FamilyGeekery 7 ай бұрын

Good luck! Let us know how it goes.

@joelleleonard 7 ай бұрын

@@FamilyGeekery Well, I was able to do all the steps quite easily. Yet, Terminal would tell me "command not found" and that's where I'm still stuck. Couldn't find how to solve the problem just yet. I ordered a used older Mac at a bargain price to try again as the Mac I initially wanted to reinstall an older MacOS version onto wouldn't let me run the command either. 🤷🏻‍♀

@ZWallAbuser 7 ай бұрын

how old? and did it end up working?@@joelleleonard

@joelleleonard 7 ай бұрын

2010 macmini and no, I wasn't able to make it work so far. I'll get back to it eventually someday 😆

@heartandvascularcareconsul8947 3 күн бұрын

after a day of shitty attempts from other videos, this video did the trick

@FamilyGeekery 3 күн бұрын

Awesome! I’m glad to hear that!

@torii6153 2 ай бұрын

I have a MBP 2011 model a1278. OS supported if I do a reset over the internet is mac os lion. you think will work on my device?

@gabemccool1 2 ай бұрын

Extremely Thankful! Found an old iMac at an estate sale that wasn't cleaned..... You saved me.

@FamilyGeekery 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Happy to help.

@Jdude-123 Ай бұрын

How do you do this with something like Mac OS captain

@g82bfree 2 ай бұрын

Hi Chris, everything was going well up to installing the bootable disk via terminal. At the end of % progress and after 'making disk bootable' message, I received this: Couldn't extract BaseSystem to path: /Volumes/Install macOS Monterey/BaseSystem The bless of the installer disk failed. Any idea why?

@rackss9363 Ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@moeathmann8617 2 ай бұрын

Thank You!

@budski1366 3 ай бұрын

Copying to disk? How long is that because I been waiting for almost 20mins still nothing?

@Martin_Vail_Esq. Жыл бұрын

How do I create a boot disk using my working m2 Mac mini for a 2011 MacBook Pro with a brand new drive installed without any os? Trying to boot into recovery mode, it send me to the original LION installer. I attempted to run the installer just to get an OS on that drive, but it failed to install. Please help me figure this out, as the MacBook is in mint condition and I want to use it for basic web surfing, email.

@RandAO Жыл бұрын

Your videos are so detailed. They’ve helped me out a ton. I’m also having the same issue. HELP!! 😅

@karastas76 2 ай бұрын

how to download an older Mac OS app installer from a newer version?

@ajayagarwal3492 15 күн бұрын

Not able to achieve. The Mac says software not supported even though I chose to install Big Sur for my 13 inch Early 2014 Mac Air

@earlybird1969 Жыл бұрын

I cannot download macOS Ventura using a 32 Gb flash drive on my late 2014 Mac mini

@ryanashby2459 3 ай бұрын

When I hold down Option I see the option to install the OS, but it makes me choose a network, then runs the Internet Recovery and fails...

@KingdomTouches 6 ай бұрын

I'm having an error validating the installer data. The download is either damaged or incomplete.

@faisalirshad1one 3 ай бұрын

"You have done an amazing job."

@jake.rockswell 4 ай бұрын

After I select install Mac OS, the only destination drive option i have to install is the usb flash drive, which it says is locked. The other main hard drive is not showing up. Even though, in disk utility the main hard drive does show up, and is in good working condition according to first aid.

@SuperChiva 4 ай бұрын

im having the same issue! help!

@perwezabbas-tv6094 10 ай бұрын

Do you think that the same process that you described in your video will work for Macbook Pro 15" mid 2010?

@FamilyGeekery 10 ай бұрын

It should. I might even have videos on a 15” 2010. Let me know if you have any troubles.

@perwezabbas-tv6094 10 ай бұрын

@@FamilyGeekery Of Course you have video on it but it is all about Boot camp. Since the last three days I have seen many videos but nothing works for me. I don't wanna spend $20 for WinClone software just for one backup. I tried many other softwares including open source Clonezilla but nothing works. I am stuck. I am seriously thinking about reinstalling my HDD so that I could Operate Windows 7. If you come up with any solution then please do let me know

@FamilyGeekery 10 ай бұрын

@perwezabbas-tv6094 are you trying to just install a fresh macOS, or do a full clone of your old drive?

@perwezabbas-tv6094 10 ай бұрын

@@FamilyGeekery I wanted to Clone the entire HDD to SSD but I could Clone only MacOS Lion 10.7.5 but failed to clone Boot Camp where my Windows 7 is installed

@perwezabbas-tv6094 10 ай бұрын

@@FamilyGeekery I couldn't install fresh and upgraded ios like High Sierra so I just cloned the old MacOS Lion which is instslled in my HDD

@andrewdunbar828 7 күн бұрын

Not easy. July 2024 I can't find any macos versions in the App Store. Looking for anything between Mountain Lion and Sierra to install on my mid-2013 MBA, using App Store on my M1 MBA.

@dune6739 2 ай бұрын

Would this still work if you deleted Macintosh hd from disk utility?

@FamilyGeekery 2 ай бұрын

Yes, after you have the thumb drive, you can install macOS on any hard drive that’s been wiped, formatted, etc.

@Daniel-io9bg Жыл бұрын

I get an error that no such file or directory

@jethronh Жыл бұрын

im not finding any Mac OS on app store like you show in your video.

@bertdunn8755 Жыл бұрын

try entering this into your search engine. How to create a bootable installer for macOs Hope this helps

@jasoncaldeira8216 10 ай бұрын

Hello I did notbgetvthe answer yes after the password??

@wassimrahmani3561 3 ай бұрын

Maybe you’re not searching for latest Mac OS

@braydenlanders9306 2 ай бұрын

you must have downs

@bfed9jstariobsrfdteinu Ай бұрын

Ok. I got a free 2011 iMac 21.5 inch from someone and they said the hard drive was missing. So there is no hard drive. How do I install macOS on there then?

@leonardwijaya Ай бұрын

Super Thanks , you Give me a lot of money wow Hahaha

@izonefan1871 5 ай бұрын

For anyone that cant find the mac os they need, all i did was google install high Sierra for mine and itll pull up the app on the app store despite me looking through there first.

@a_aronhdtech1328 3 ай бұрын

Thank you. I was having the hardest time finding this.

@andrewdunbar828 7 күн бұрын

Ah but I want to download on my M1 to put on a USB drive to then install on my old old Intel machine but it just tells me my new machine isn't compatible with it and gives me no further options.

@prayritmehrotra3382 5 ай бұрын

is this work on macbook air 2014 model ?

@FamilyGeekery 5 ай бұрын

Yes it will

@katebowes5944 2 ай бұрын

🤨🤔 All went well making the install disk, plugging it in to the new SSD upgraded 5,1, powering up while holding down the option key … up comes the Install image and arrow which I click on and then the 🚫 comes up and can go no further. Any advice, kind sir?

@waskilautarod2141 2 ай бұрын

i read on apple support that it means ur computer cant run that os

@katebowes5944 2 ай бұрын

@@waskilautarod2141 Thanks for taking the time to respond. I worked it out!

@TheKRICHRIS 2 күн бұрын

once I get to password ? does not allow me to enter anything I just see a key and cannot enter anything the password is the Macbook password ?

@christophergonzalez1554 Ай бұрын

It works! But it's still downloading the actual update from the wifi not the thumb drive. Right? I've got 300 Macs to update. This is killing the WiFi speed.

@jasoncaldeira8216 10 ай бұрын

not there, please reply

@caseyrichardson776 7 ай бұрын

Did everything just right and everything worked up till clicking on the install to the computer and it shows this 🚫 and after that shows up I can do anything else, what do I do?

@FamilyGeekery 7 ай бұрын

Did you just install a new hard drive? If so, you can double check the connections

@caseyrichardson776 7 ай бұрын

I had to factory reset the computer cause my fiancé is wanting to use it at his business, then I did everything the video told to do and got stuck when sticking the usb drive in holding the option key then clicking the install macOS Ventura (only option I had on App Store) then it went straight to the 🚫 screen, I let it sit sense that comment and then it went to the select language screen then the options that are seen when you go and select disk utility.

@carlosmorningstar5981 4 ай бұрын

after it asks password it doesnt allow me to put a password also what password its asking i dont get it ? @

@christianstordahl8688 2 ай бұрын

I know this is 2 months old. But you just enter your password and hit enter. It does not show you typing the password, it will just show the little lock or key icon. So just type the password and even though it doesn't indicate you're typing, you are. And hit enter.

@OlajumokeAdetilewa-David 17 күн бұрын

Can I use an external hard drive?

@FamilyGeekery 17 күн бұрын

You can, but hopefully you don’t have anything on there that you need, since it will format the drive.

@OlajumokeAdetilewa-David 11 күн бұрын

@@FamilyGeekery ooh thank you.

@user-vw5vh5ms4f 5 ай бұрын

So 2 gb wont work

@ricardomunoz4250 Жыл бұрын

I can’t find the OS on the App Store either. What other place can I get it?

@bertdunn8755 Жыл бұрын

try entering this into your search engine. How to create a bootable installer for macOs hope this helps

@dianaj3215 4 ай бұрын

Mine said no

@swe3t23 3 ай бұрын

How do you set up your USB for multiple Mac OS installers. And how do you write it in the terminal.

@FamilyGeekery 3 ай бұрын

Create a Bootable USB Drive with Multiple macOS Installers ! Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, etc. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7Ohi5V6yr6vmHk.html

@powerman2610 7 ай бұрын

MAC os is not in app store

@lindseyh-hw5gl 7 ай бұрын

This is problem that I'm running into right now trying to create a USB bootable drive for my MacBook Pro from 2013.

@lindseyh-hw5gl 7 ай бұрын

Okay so I ended up using Big Sur instead of Monterey. I used chatgpt to troubleshoot issues and to find the right operating system and was able to figure it out. I used this video to guide me with everything else though!

@leonardwijaya Ай бұрын

Set Filter Free , the Os will be seen