You now have a bootable Windows 10 USB drive. I got my USB done but i'm unable to boot from it. I formated win hdd to OS X Extended Journaled, GPT and left only 1 drive connected. Next I tried with the Rufus tool, which got the job done using the same.iso file I originally tried to copy with dd.
Once you install Yosemite, the file will automatically erase itself, so it's important to make a bootable drive first. If you want to install first and then make a bootable drive, make a copy of the installer app in another location so you can access it later. Worst case scenario is downloading the large file again from the Mac App Store, but then why make a bootable drive? The Easiest Way: Use DiskMaker X By far the easiest way to create a bootable drive is to use the DiskMaker X application, which automates the entire process in the next method. To start out, download the newest version of DiskMaker X from.
Currently, that's the. (Update: the public Yosemite version is out now, and you can download it from, or.) Once download, open it up and select 'Yosemite Beta' or 'Yosemite 10.10' (depending on the version you're using) to start the process. Then just follow the rest of the prompts to start the disk-making process.
It could take anywhere from 15 minutes to to 45 minutes to finish, depending on your USB flash drive. If it's more toward the latter, you might get a ' error, but it should still work, (it worked for me). The Less Easy Way: Format & Use Terminal If you're more comfortable with Terminal commands, this is the method for you.
Just make sure your USB drive is already formatted correctly before proceeding. To see how to correctly format your USB drive, please see Step #1 below in the 'The Hardest Way' section. With your USB drive ready to go, open up Terminal and type (or copy/paste) the following command.
sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/Yosemite -applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app -nointeraction Note that you should replace the 'Yosemite' in 'Volumes/Yosemite' with whatever you named your USB drive. This should all be one line. After you get it in there, just hit the Enter key. Type in your admin password to continue and the Enter again. (You won't visibly see your password typing, but it's happening—believe me.) Now just wait. This could be fairly quickly or very long, depending on your system and USB drive. The Hardest Way: Do Everything Manually If you don't want to use DiskMaker X or Terminal commands, this is another option for you.
It's a lot more complicated, but gets the job done. Step 1: Reformat Your USB Drive First, make sure you have a USB flash drive that's at least 8 GBs in size, then mount it. Open up Disk Utility and do the following. Select the USB drive (not the partition).
Go to the Partition tab. Change the 'Partition Layout' to 1 Partition. Rename it Yosemite (or whatever you want). Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the 'Format'.
Click the Options. After your Finder reloads, the hidden files you once saw before should now be gone.
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Go ahead and close all of your windows, exit Terminal and Disk Utility, and eject your mounted disks to clean up your mess. Installing Yosemite on Your Computer Now, it's time to test out your new drive. Restart your computer while holding the Option (Alt) key on your keyboard.
Wait until the Startup Manager pops up, then select your new OS X Base System volume (or whatever your bootable drive is called). Alternatively, you can just hold down the C button while starting up to boot directly into the USB drive. Troubleshooting Tips If the installation of Yosemite freezes, it's probably because your USB drive is corrupted in some way. This happened to me on the first couple tries, where it would freeze at 5 minutes left.
The third USB stick I used was successful, and it took less than 15 minutes for Yosemite to boot up. If you're getting an Undefined error: 0 warning when trying to install, this more than likely means that you forgot to perform Step 6 above, so make sure to copy over those two BaseSystem files.
If you got the 'AppleEvent timed out' error using DiskMaker X, more than likely it'll still work. Just eject the new drive and use it. If it doesn't work, try one of the other methods out to start over. If you're not sure if you're going to like Yosemite over Mavericks, I would suggest and installing Yosemite there, that way if anything goes wrong, your Mavericks installation will still be untouched. Cover image via Related. Talk about the long way of achieving this!
Very thorough tutorial but unnecessary. Assuming you have downloaded the BETA version of Yosemite, open up the installer from the Application folder, but do not proceed with the installer, just leave it open. Then follow step 1 as per this tutorial. Once your USB drive has been formatted add copy and paste the following into Terminal: sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite Beta.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/UNTITLED -applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite Beta.app -nointeraction Where UNTITLED is the name of your formatted volums/USB drive e.g. Wait (a while, no really, you'll be waiting quite some time if you're not using USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt) and then you'll be ready to boot and clean install Yosemite BETA from your USB drive.
Carry on from Step 8. No need for lengthy process of hiding.unhiding files.folders nor is there a need to drag and drop files/folders. Don't forget to backup!
Great tutorial and thanks for your hard work and for your generosity! I did the usb installation, i installed on the hard drive and when i tried to boot from hdd the boot process stops and the computer reboots.
I used the flags: -s -x -f -v kext-dev-mode=1 KernelCache=No. I have a emachines E725, dual core T4400, 3 GB Ram, 320GB HDD, integrated graphic card Intel GM45, i don't know the type of the motherboard of this machines with windows 7, xubuntu 14.04 and mavericks 10.9.5 on it. Please help me!
I NEED HELP!! I know I'm a few years late but I JUST came into possession of a 2007 macbook (A1181) and I'm upgrading the RAM (to 4GB) and hard drive (to 500 GB). I was hoping to make myself a bootable installer of Yosemite but I cannot manage to find anywhere to download it. That is the only thing hanging up my adventure. I'd be open to any other macOS as long as it can run the newest iTunes. I'm wary of going too high since this laptop is so old and I'm pretty new to doing my own upgrades. THANKS!!:) Reply.
USB Drives are the most convenient go-to devices nowadays when the need to prepare a Bootable media arises. For a reason being readily available and configurable, USB drives have slowly overtaken CD/DVDs of the olden times. But even when Bootable USB media hold a significant edge over CD/DVD drives in most cases, it does have some caveats as well. The prominent one being the setting up of a USB installation media for Windows or Linux requires additional software. (Have a look at our guide to if you want to use just the trusty old command prompt). We have already talked about the.
You can choose the one that suits you the best. Among all of them, RUFUS is the most popular choice software for Windows 10 bootable USB tool.
In this article, we aim to guide you through the steps for creating a Bootable USB Media for Windows or Linux OS using Rufus. So let’s get right to it. How to Create a Bootable USB using RUFUS? Requirements.
RUFUS application. ISO file for creating Installation Media. USB device with adequate capacity( 4GB Minimum for Linux and 8GB minimum for Windows). Download RUFUS Latest Version RUFUS is a freeware Windows 10 ISO to USB media creation utility. Download it from the.
Scroll down to the Download section where you will find both the latest executable file and portable file. Additionally, you can get previous versions by going to the other versions section. Create Bootable Media This Windows 10 bootable USB creation application doesn’t require installation to run. Just run the executable file, and you are good to go.
First of all, Insert the USB Device and start the application as Administrator. If the USB is mounted, RUFUS will automatically detect the drive and show the same. If multiple USB devices are mounted, choose the one that you prefer from the drop-down menu under Devices. This free USB media creation tool for Windows 10 and Mac can create USB Bootable media from ISO files devices with different settings like partition schemes, Cluster size, and file system. As you may know, various hardware and Operating system ISO files require different settings so make sure you specify them accordingly. Next, browse to the Windows 10 ISO or any other ISO files that you would like to create a Bootable Windows 10 USB media for.
This can be done under Boot selection. The latest version of this ISO to USB media application (Rufus-3.1 and above) provides options for Non-Bootable, FreeDOS and Disk or ISO images. Choose Disk or ISO Image and click select to browse to the Linux ISO file. Then, Click on Start and in the subsequent window popup, click on OK to confirm erasing the content and format the drive. Probably, the process would not take more than a few minutes. The status bar displays the progress. Finally, when everything is complete, you will have your Boot device ready. Recommended Settings for RUFUS Usually, the default settings would be enough, and you can start the process of Creating your Windows 10 USB or Linux USB boot media.
For those of you who would like to know your hardware better, we’ll have a brief look. Basically, the two types of low-level software that are the first to run when a computer starts are UEFI and BIOS. Barring old hardware, most of the newer machines come with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). UEFI is much more capable than Legacy BIOS. Fortunately, We have written a whole article explaining just those.
So, Go check to know everything that you need to know about that topic. Furthermore, if you want to know the recommended settings for each of the partition scheme, we will list the same below. Create Bootable Windows 10 USB with UEFI. Partition scheme: GPT. Target System type: UEFI. File System: FAT32. Cluster Size: select the 4096 bytes(Default).
In Format Options, Check both:. Quick format. Create extended label and icon files.
Create Bootable Windows 10 USB using Legacy BIOS. Partition scheme: MBR. Target System type: BIOS or UEFI-CSM. File System: NTFS. Cluster Size: select the 4096 bytes(Default). In Format Options, Check both:.
Quick format. Create extended label and icon files. Another thing to look for in the case of Creating Linux Boot media is that RUFUS will check for updated Syslinux/GRUB files. Consequently, a window popup will appear asking you to choose whether to download the newer files from the server or to continue using the ones in the application.
Troubleshooting RUFUS Problems and Errors You might run into some issues when making bootable USB from ISO using Rufus Error: 0x00000015 The device is not ready. Mainly, this error indicates a hardware problem where the USB is not connected correctly. This type of error can happen if there is automounting disabled for the USB device. Further, this error is likely to come up during the USB formatting process. To fix this RUFUS problem,.
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Open Command prompt as Administrator. Type mountvol /e and press Enter. Besides, if the error pops up during the ISO extraction process, this might be due to a bad USB connection. Hence, using an external cable/connector to plug in a high speed 3.0 USB is not recommended. Device eliminated because it appears to contain no media If you happen to encounter this error, try using another USB device. Because this means that the device is no longer able to rewrite memory.
Error 0x00000005 Access is denied Certainly, these types of errors are mostly third party software conflicting with this free Windows 10 USB tool. You should check external software like Anti Virus or Anti-malware software that might be blocking this bootable media creation application from accessing the USB drive. Moreover, if you are using Windows 10 to create a Bootable USB device, the feature called will cause problems if enabled. Controlled Folder Access prevents applications from writing to drives outside of the location of the executed software. So make sure to disable the feature. To do this,. Select Start Settings Update & security Windows Defender.
Open Windows Defender Security Center. Go To Virus & threat protection Virus & threat protection settings.
Under Controlled folder access, turn off the toggle switch to disable it.