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1. USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA HOW TO
2. USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA INSTALL
3. USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA UPGRADE
4. USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA DOWNLOAD
5. USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA WINDOWS

Type the following at your shell $ prompt. Open terminal.app by going to to /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app or Command-Shift-U then double clicking terminal.app Note: You need to be using an account the has permissions to administer the macOS X computer, or has been added to the sudoers file. Verify that the installer has been downloaded it will be located in your /Applications directory.

USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA INSTALL

Once the installer has downloaded, we can now create the install media. This is done through the App Store.ĭepending on your internet connection speed, go grab a cup of coffee, or get lunch, or use the time to read some of the other great articles on Brent’s World.

USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA DOWNLOAD

Now we must download the Mac OS 10.3 (High Sierra) installation utility. You should now see the two newly created partitions. By pressing the ‘Partition’ button as outlined in the demonstration you assume all risks of intended, or unintended loss of that data! I will NOT be held legally responsible for ANY data loss from you following these instructions. As a precaution if you are performing these steps on a device that already has data on it, I HIGHLY recommend that you stop and take the time to back up the partition that has data. This should NOT erase any data already present on your device.ĭISCLAIMER! This demonstration assumes you are using new media, or media that has already been erased. \You will now see a dialog box outlining the changes to be made to the drives structure, and are informed that No partitions will be erased. Leave everything else unchanged, and click the ‘Apply’ button. Only changing the name of the new partition.Ĭhange the name of the new partition to “Rescue Utilities” You can increase or decrease the size, but for this demonstration we will leave things as is. You will now see the drive broken into 2 equal partitions of 7.89 GB.

One will contain the Mac OS X High Sierra install media, the other will contain a bootable partition that we will keep useful utilities and documentation.Ĭlick on the drive, again this is the “General USB Flash Disk Media” Next, we will split the disk into 2 partitions., The Mac OS X install disk needs at least 8GB, as this is a 16GB drive we will create a new partition of equal size. When the formatting is completed, click Done. Name the disk whatever you want, I will name it “OS X Rescue Disk”Ĭlick the Format selection arrows and select “Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)Ĭlick the Scheme: selection arrows and select GUID Partition Map Select your USB Device, in this case it is named ‘General USB Flash Disk Media’ It would be a very bad day if I accidently erased my hard drive containing over 2GB of photo’s.įirst we want to Erase the USB stick, and format it with the GUID Partition Scheme. Very important when we may potentially lose data. It provides additional visual references that make it easier to know exactly which device I am manipulating.

I find it much more useful to display them in a hierarchical fashion, displaying the Volume and Partitions. NOTE: By default Disk Utility will only show disk volumes. Open your utilities folder by selecting Go > Utilities, or pressing SHIFT – COMMAND – U. We will want to reformat the device to be used and bootable from your macOS computer.

USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA WINDOWS

The first thing we want to do, Erase the USB thumb drive, and reformat it with the “GUID” partition scheme, 9 times out of 10 your thumb drive will come either formatted with the “Master Boot Record” scheme with a single “ExFAT or “NTFS” to work on Windows computers. The only thing you will need is a USB thumb drive with a capacity of at least 8 GB of storage, however I would recommend getting one with 32 or even 64 GB, so you can have a bootable partition with your favorite utilities for emergencies.

USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA HOW TO

Today I am going to show you how to create a bootable USB installer for OS X 10.13 (High Sierra), as well as “useful utility” partition.

USB EXFAT ON MAC OS X HIGH SIERRA UPGRADE

What do you do if your recovery partition has become corrupted, or you have replaced your existing hard drive with a new hard drive? Such would be the case if your hard drive failed, or you found it necessary to upgrade your existing drive. This tells the operating system to boot into a special hidden recovery partitions giving you access to a limited (And powerful set of utilities). In case you don’t know or have forgotten, you simply power up or restart your Mac and hold down the Command and the R keys at the same time.

We all know how to get to the OS X recovery partition, in the event we need to reinstall Mac OS X High Sierra. MacOS X – Creating Bootable Install Media For High Sierra