Part 1: Create a Bootable USB Drive. Please refer to this page: create a bootable drive with EaseUS Partition Master. After creating a bootable USB drive with the format tool, you can format your hard drive on the problematic computer from USB. Connect the USB to your computer and then open EaseUS Partition Master from the USB.
Also, you’ll get some information about “TransMac” software. What is “TransMac Software”? From where to download? How does it work?
You need the following materials to create bootable USB Installer for Mac OSX on Windows 10 operating system. What is TransMac Software? TransMac from Acute Systems is Windows software that can copy and manage files and folders on Apple drives and devices, including Mac-formatted hard drives, flash drives, and other storage devices, as well as open and burn disc images and.dmg and.sparseimage files. It’s shareware that you can try for free for 15 days. Recent updates include an improved open file dialog, speed enhancements, and Windows 8 compatibility. TransMac for Windows can open Macintosh format disk drives, flash drives, CD/DVD/Blu-ray media, dmg, dmgpart, sparsebundle and sparseimage files.
Features: create, compress and expand Mac dmg disk images, built-in CD/DVD burner to burn ISO and dmg files. The new version is also compatible with Windows 10. Create Bootable USB Installer for Mac OSX Using TransMac To create bootable USB installer for Mac in order to Install Mac OS X El Capitan on Windows, on Mac or on VirtualBox, you have to create bootable USB flash drive.
Let’s get started that how to do it. First, you have to download TransMac software for Windows and install it on your computer.
The Installation process is very easy and everyone can do it without any problem. Once you’ve installed then you will see the screenshot below. Right-click on the flash that you want to create bootable for Mac with TransMac software then choose “ Restore with disk image“. Hi there, just yesterday I bought a used MacBook Pro 2007 and it came with Mac OS X Lion.
Unfortunately I erase the disk with the system and now when I try to download a new copy of lion through Mac OS X Utilities I always get “Item temporarily unavailable” (I tried different apple accounts, one of then with lion in history purchase, I tried to correct the date on terminal and even did an reset nvram). My next step was Internet Recovery Mod, but once again no results, option+command+r didn’t work. Already getting crazy I was hopping to make an bootable usb disk and install from there. I started by preparing my usb 3.0 disk with diskapart command in windows terminal and fallow all the steps in TransMac with different mac os versions but the final result was always the same, when I plug the usb pen in my mac, I turn on pressing option key and I select usb but it always go to Mac OS X Utilities.
Any ideas what to do now? Please someone help! Hi there, just yesterday I bought a used MacBook Pro 2007 and it came with Mac OS X Lion. Unfortunately I erase the disk with the system and now when I try to download a new copy of lion through Mac OS X Utilities I always get “Item temporarily unavailable” (I tried different apple accounts, one of then with lion in history purchase, I tried to correct the date on terminal and even did an reset nvram). My next step was Internet Recovery Mod, but once again no results, option+command+r didn’t work. Already getting crazy I was hopping to make an bootable usb disk and install from there.
I started by preparing my usb 3.0 disk with diskapart command in windows terminal and fallow all the steps in TransMac with different mac os versions but the final result was always the same, when I plug the usb pen in my mac, I turn on pressing option key and I select usb but it always go to Mac OS X Utilities. Any ideas what to do now? Please someone help! Try to boot with the USB Installer and before that apply this recommended settings. If again you are unable to Boot into USB installer then Create a Bootable Installer again with a different USB drive. Or you can also also. 1: Load Optimized Defaults 2: Set The SATA Controller Mode to AHCI 3: Set the Boot Priority to UEFI 4: Set OS Type to Other OS 5: If your CPU supports VT-d, disable it 6: If your system has CFG-Lock, disable it 7: If your system has Secure Boot Mode, disable it 8: If you have a six series or x58 system with AWARD BIOS, disable USB 3.0 9: Save and exit.
10: If your system didn’t boot automatically then go to Boot Manger and select the Bootable USB Installer that you create in step 1, Manually.
Rufus is quite helpful when you need to install Windows 7/8/10, reset Windows user password or else. Freeware as Rufus is, it does a good job in making bootable flash drive from ISO images and has benefited millions of users worldwide, not including Mac OS users though. However, things will be different after reading this post about how to create bootable USB drive for a PC on a Mac. Does Rufus Work on Mac Computer? Unfortunately, Rufus only supports 32 or 64 bit Windows XP/7/8/10.
To run Rufus on Mac computer, it’s required your Apple computer has dual boot Windows Mac OS installed, in other words, you must install Windows operating system on Mac. Is it possible?
Apple hardware supports macOS, Windows, Linux natively, and the whole installing process can be easily done with a built-in app called Boot Camp. So you should have a disk image files for installation when you buy Windows PC. If not, you can download Windows ISO from and use Rufus to create a bootable USB drive.
Open Boot Camp from the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder and it will guide you through installing Windows on your Mac. After that, format your Windows partition and finish Windows installation. Now restart your Mac to switch between masOS and Windows. When you successfully boot from Windows, you can download Rufus for Macbook/iMac and use this freeware to burn ISO files to a USB drive.
How to Create Windows Bootable USB on Mac using Rufus? You can always make a bootable USB drive with Rufus on a Mac. Depending on the ISO image type, you can either use the disk to reset Windows password or install Windows operating system or else. Below is a simple guide:. 1.Launch Rufus on your Mac computer with Windows operating system installed, and insert an at least 4GB USB flash drive. Select the device from interface.
2.Specify the partition scheme, file system, cluster size and format options accordingly. 3.Browser and choose an ISO image stored on your Mac. 4.Click Start button. There you have learnt how to create bootable USB from ISO with Rufus, and what you do with the UFD is really up to you. If you don’t want to download and install Windows to your Mac while need to burn a bootable password reset disk to save your locked Windows PC, you can try the Rufus alternative for Mac OS computer –. No extra ISO file is required as this program will provide one by default.
Once you burn the ISO to your CD/DVD/USB drive, you are free to boot your Windows computer from external hard drive.