MAC OS X LION TO USB FROM WINDOWS MAC OS X

You can rename the partition “ Mac OS X Install ESD” back to “ Mountain Lion“. This partition is ready for booting the installation media of Mountain Lion. Once it’s written the partition “ Name” will change into “ Mac OS X Install ESD” and “ Format” will become “ Mac OS Extended“. Hit “ Restore” to write the image on to the partition. Drag and drop the Mac OS partition from the left side list under the USB flash drive (in my case “ Mountain Lion“) on to the “ Destination” box. Now, the “ Source” box will be populated with “ Mac OS X Install ESD“. The name of the mounted Volume would be like “ Mac OS X Install ESD” and it would be sitting in the Disk Utility.Ĭlick on it from Disk Utility and hit “ Restore” tab. Double click on “ InstallESD.dmg” to mount it. Open “ Contents -> SharedSupport” folder. Right click on it and select “ Show Package Contents” from the pop-up menu. To do that go to “ /Applications” folder. Once you downloaded Mountain Lion for installation from “ Mac App Store“, get the “ InstallESD.dmg“. Prepare MOUNTAIN LION installation boot volume: Name: DataStorage, Format: ExFAT, Size: 17GBĪfter editing the partitions click on “ Apply” to create the partitions.

Name: FEDORA17, Format: MS-DOS (FAT), Size: 5GB.Name: WIN8PROWMC, Format: MS-DOS (FAT), Size: 5GB.Name: Mountain Lion, Format: Mac OS Extended (Jounaled), Size: 5GB.Note: To boot from a Mac machine it is important that the Hard drive’s or USB flash drive’s “ Partition Map Scheme” must be “ GUID Partition Table”. Now click on “ Options…” found below “ Partition Layout” and select “ GUID Partition Table” and click “ OK”. Select the number of partitions you want to make from the “ Partition Layout” drop down menu (In my case I opted for 4 partitions). Select the USB flash drive and click on “ Partition” tab. The respective Operating Systems’ ISO/DMG files.A USB flash drive with size, say above 8, 16, 32GB or whatever that suits your needs.In all cases a simple “ cp -R” command does the trick to prepare the bootable volumes.Mine is MacBook Pro 17″ (3.1, late 2007 with 64 bit EFI).

MAC OS X LION TO USB FROM WINDOWS HOW TO

This write-up is about how to prepare multiboot installation USB flash drive on Mac OS for the purpose of booting uniquely from Intel Mac machines.

For 32 bit platforms it could be the same or may be even much easier.

Mac os x lion to usb from windows