
If you plan on using your USB on both Windows and macOS devices, the preferred format is ExFAT. Different File System Formats Available in Disk Utility ExFAT

Let’s look at how to format your thumb drive for a Mac. Unless it’s specifically designed to work on a macOS, you'll need to reformat the flash drive. It’s because most computers run on Windows and most thumb drives ship with formats that favor a Windows environment.

Important! Before installing Mac OS X on PC please backup all important data especially in the drive you decide to dedicate for installing Mac.Have you ever tried to use a USB drive on your Mac only to realize you couldn’t write any files to it? Now your U S Drive is ready to install Mac OS (X) on your Hackintosh-PC. Then copy all kext from kext folder to Clover > EFI > CLOVER > Kext > Other(for OS Sierra) 10.11(for El Capitan) and so on, to EFI partition. Copy config, plist to mounted EFI partition in desktop/finder-sidebar click on EFI > Clover > EFI > CLOVER and replace existing config. Then find and choose one of ist you desire inside the config. To download ist here ? DOWNLOADĪfter you download the archive extract it. To download kext & driver here ? DOWNLOAD So! its time for The Tricks! Putting some essential kext like fakeSMC.kext etc.įor ist you can use pre –edited one, along with additional kext I have uploaded. Skip to the Clover section hereĪfter install Clover finish, there will automatically EFI Partition mounted on your Finder-sidebar/Desktop. When you are done create a USB installer with terminal, for the final trick and to make it works go back here and skip this tutorial into Installing Clover boot loader (for Hackintosh) section. Or, if you want to make things simple, you can use a terminal command to restore the installer app to a USB drive, you can find post about how to make macOS bootable USB using the terminal ‘ sudo’ command here How to Create macOS Bootable USB Drive Using Terminal This method also works to creating USB installer for El Capitan, Yosemite and Maverick, and the other previous version of Mac OS X as well.įirst, you need to download macOS Installer apps from App Store or through torrent. If you already have it, then good so you can just start to experiment with it.

In this post, I will try the best I can to guide you! how to create macOS Sierra bootable USB drive from your Mac or from any working H ackintosh-PC using Disk Utilities.īecause since El Capitan the disk utility of macOS was different, if you running El Capitan and want to create bootable USB for macOS Sierra you can use Yosemite Disk utility for El Capitan just google it!
