Step 1: First and foremost, this process requires that you own a copy of Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) and a USB drive with a minimum capacity of 8GB. A PC capable of running OS X Mountain Lion.A minimum of 8GB or larger USB flash drive.Access to a Mac to download OS X Mountain Lion from App Store and prepare UniBeast USB Drive.Quick and efficient way of making your own macOS recovery and installation driveĪfter the process has completed, you can use the bootable USB macOS drive you’ve created to perform a clean installation of macOS on your Mac or use it as an upgrade disk for any Mac that run a lower version of macOS.Īll things considered, UniBeast provides you with a streamlined way of creating bootable USB disk out of the macOS installer you’ve downloaded from the Mac App Store, without the need of using the Terminal app. The next thing is to launch the UniBeast.app, choose the destination USB disk and the macOS version to use for creating your bootable USB drive.Īfter going through all the screens of the UniBeast installer you only have to click the Install button, enter your password and wait for the drive to be created. Straightforward selection process for the macOS version and destination volume There’s only one requirement before beginning the process of transforming your USB disk into a bootable macOS installation drive: you will first have to format it as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) disk with 1 partition, as explained on the developer’s website.

This is where UniBeast comes in, as a very simple to use tool for rapidly and quickly creating a bootable USB drive using the macOS copy you bought from the Mac App Store or downloaded for free if your Mac is running Mavericks or Yosemite. Creating a bootable USB disk with a copy of macOS can come in very handy if you need to clean install the operating system on your Mac, if you want to upgrade it easier or if you require a rescue disk for getting back your data from a crashed hard drive.Įven though you can do this with the tools built-in within macOS, by combining the power of Apple’s Disk Utility and the Terminal, the process may be too complicated for some newer macOS users or just plain difficult if you’ve never used the Terminal before.Ĭreate bootable USB drives from any macOS installer downloaded from the Mac App Store

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