There are many reasons why you may want to use a USB Flash drive to install Mac OS X Mountain Lion. If you need to install multiple copies on a few computers, or even prefer not to have to download a new copy every time you have to install the Mac OS. And from what I’ve experienced, installing from a USB Flash drive is faster than installing via downloading a new copy from the Mac App Store or even from DVD. Also USB Flash drives don’t scratch, DVDs do.

The steps necessary to create a Flash drive to install Mac OS X Mountain Lion are fairly simple. Does sam's club free battery installation cover. https://completebrown.amebaownd.com/posts/20508897. There are just certain parts that need extra attention however, I will highlight these areas.

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Step 1 of 3 – Preparation

Firstly you actually have to have the OS X Mountain Lion install app downloaded, you can purchase it from the Mac App Store. Once Mountain Lion has been downloaded, you’ll be able to find it in your Applications folder.

If the downloaded Mountain Lion app automatically pops up after downloading, don’t install it yet, just close the window. What we’re looking for is a DMG file. Go to your Applications folder and locate the “Install OS X Mountain Lion” app. Right click it and select “Show Package Contents”. Once opened there’ll be a folder called “Contents”, open it, and finally open the “SharedSupport” folder. Inside this folder there should be 2 files, one called “InstallESD.dmg” and the other “OSInstall.mpkg”, copy the InstallESD.dmg to the Desktop. This will be the file that we’ll be using to create the bootable disk image onto the USB Flash drive.

Step 2 of 3 – Prepare the USB Flash drive

Format USB drive

To create the bootable disk image, your UBS drive has to have at least 8GB of storage. Nowadays USB Flash drive are really cheap and can be purchased at almost any electronics store (the Flash drive I use is 16GB and only cost $15). Plug it into your Mac, and launch Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities). We’re going to format the USB drive, so make sure there isn’t anything on it that you need, as formatting will erase everything on the USB drive.

Select the USB drive that is to be formatted, then select the Erase tab. Under the selection for “Format:” select “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)“, and name it anything you’d like. It would probably would be best however to make it something recognizable like “Mac Install” or “Mountain Lion Installer”. Up to you though. Then simply press the “Erase…” button on the bottom right when done. The USB Flash drive will then start to format; in most cases it takes less than a minute.

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For more information on formatting check out my other post: How to Format & Repair a Drive with Disk Utility

Step 3 of 3 – Restore Disk Image

Once your USB flash drive has finished formatting, it’s time to “restore” the drive image. In Disk Utility select the partition that was just formatted and click the restore tab. Make sure to select the partition that you’ve created and not the drive itself. To elaborate, as you can see in the screenshot, I’ve selected the partition I named “Mac OS X Install ESD”, not the drive itself. If you select the drive instead of the partition, then it won’t restore the disk image onto your USB flash drive.

There are two input boxes. One labelled “Source:” the other “Destination:”.

For the “Source:” box either drag the “InstallESD.dmg” file in, or click the “Image…” button, navigate to your desktop and select “InstallESD.dmg”. The destination will be the partition you’ve created. Simply drag the partition that’s on the USB drive that you formatted into the “Destination:” box from the panel on the left of Disk Utility. Next simply press the “Restore” button on the bottom right.

This could take a while to complete, let it do its thing. Once the process is done, your USB drive is ready to go.

If you want to use the USB to format a new computer or re-format your current computer, there are 2 ways of getting it installed. One is to go to System Preferences -> Startup Disk -> and select the USB drive. This will load up the Mac OS X Mountain Lion installer as soon as you restart your computer. The other method is to simply hold down the Options key on the keyboard when your Mac is just turning on after being shutdown/restarted.

Once it’s done booting into the installer it’s a simple process of going through the provided setup steps (easy stuff).

Did you know you can run Mac OS X Mountain Lion from a USB Flash drive? Here’s how: Boot from portable USB disk

You can even boot from an old formatted iPod Classic, here’s a guide: How to Boot and Run Mac OS X from an iPod Classic

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So, you’ve decided to download an older version of Mac OS X. There are many reasons that could point you to this radical decision. To begin with, some of your apps may not be working properly (or simply crash) on newer operating systems. Also, you may have noticed your Mac’s performance went down right after the last update. Finally, if you want to run a parallel copy of Mac OS X on a virtual machine, you too will need a working installation file of an older Mac OS X. Further down we’ll explain where to get one and what problems you may face down the road.

A list of all Mac OS X versions

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We’ll be repeatedly referring to these Apple OS versions below, so it’s good to know the basic macOS timeline.

Cheetah 10.0	Puma 10.1	Jaguar 10.2
Panther 10.3	Tiger 10.4	Leopard 10.5
Snow Leopard 10.6	Lion 10.7	Mountain Lion 10.8
Mavericks 10.9	Yosemite 10.10	El Capitan 10.11
Sierra 10.12	High Sierra 10.13	Mojave 10.14
Catalina 10.15

STEP 1. Prepare your Mac for installation

Given your Mac isn’t new and is filled with data, you will probably need enough free space on your Mac. This includes not just space for the OS itself but also space for other applications and your user data. One more argument is that the free space on your disk translates into virtual memory so your apps have “fuel” to operate on. The chart below tells you how much free space is needed.

Note, that it is recommended that you install OS on a clean drive. Next, you will need enough disk space available, for example, to create Recovery Partition. Here are some ideas to free up space on your drive:

Uninstall large unused apps
Empty Trash Bin and Downloads
Locate the biggest files on your computer:

Go to Finder > All My Files > Arrange by size
Then you can move your space hoggers onto an external drive or a cloud storage.
If you aren’t comfortable with cleaning the Mac manually, there are

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