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If you want to start over and wipe out the data, you need to go into Disk Utility to reformat the internal drive first, and then install macOS Sierra. If you want to install Sierra and leave the data intact, select Install OS X.

Your Mac will display an OS X Utilites window.

In those cases, if all you have to work with is a Windows PC, DMGGeeker is the perfect application. However, most of the time, you'll need a DMG to install an OS version on a Mac computer.

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(You don’t need to select a network to proceed.) If you want to use a DMG file in Windows to mount a version of Mac OS X, then Method 1 will work. Click on the external drive and hit Return.

After a few moments, your Mac should display the Startup Manager, which will show you the available boot drives.

Press down on the Option key while the Mac boots.

Plug your external drive into your Mac.

You can quit Terminal and your drive is ready for use. You should see Terminal display a “Copy complete” and Done notice.

Terminal will copy the installer file to your drive.

When that part is done, your Mac may ask you if you want to use the drive for Time Machine.

You’ll see that Terminal erases your drive.

To confirm that you want to continue, type Y and hit Return.

Terminal will tell you that it will erase your drive.

Terminal doesn’t display characters when you type it in.

Go back to Terminal and paste the copied code at the prompt.

Sudo /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/Untitled -applicationpath /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app

Launch Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).

If your drive is named something else, you need to change Untitled to the name of your drive.)

(In the Terminal command you will use, I use Untitled to represent your external drive.

Connect the external drive to your Mac.

If your really don’t want to use Terminal, there are a couple of free apps you can use. I backed up the Lion dmg file when I purchased it via the Mac App Store. The process detailed below involves the Terminal. A Mac machine needs to be reformatted with Lion. Change the name of your drive to Untitled you need to do this for the steps below. Insert the USB drive into the Mac and launch Disk. The drive will be reformatted automatically as part of the process. Using a Mac with at least OS X 10.6.8 installed, access the Mac App Store and download the Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8) app installer. I’ve used different drives with success, including a VisionTek 120GB USB 3.0 Pocket Solid State Drive ($83 on Amazon) and an old 8GB Iomega Micro Mini Hard Drive.ĭon’t worry if the drive isn’t formatted for the Mac. Step 2: You can import the DMG file directly by clicking on ‘Burn' in the toolbar or going to Tools Burn. Launch the app and insert a USB drive into a free USB slot in your computer. You can use a USB flash drive or a hard drive with room for the installer software. Now windows user can download the macOS Mojave dmg file and they can use it to create bootable USB. If it automatically launches after download, quit the installer. Look for macOS Sierra in the list of apps that you’ve bought, and click on the Download button. You can download it again if you go to Purchased in the App Store. If you’ve already upgraded your Mac to Sierra, the installer is removed from the Applications folder.

Built in burner functionality to burn ISO and dmg files directly to CD/DVD/Blu-Ray.Keep the installer in the Applications folder.

Create, compress, expand and split dmg files.

Save and restore images of disks and flash drives.

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All i have is just a normal Pc, Windows 10 running with 28 GB HDD and 2 GB Ram.

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I know how to create a bootable usb, but i dont have an another mac.

Copy files to Mac HFS+ disks and dmg images. To create a bootable usb drive from a dmg file on windows, you will need to have the right utility.

Open Mac APFS/HFS/HFS+ format disk drives, flash drives, CD/DVD/Blu-ray media, HD floppies, dmg, dmgpart, sparsebundle and sparseimage files.

Apple File System (APFS) volume read support.

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After that a license key must be purchased and entered to allow continued use. Trial limitation: All features are the same but TransMac will run for 15 days from installation to allow user evaluation. However, let me warn you, the process is a bit more complicated than the previous one and requires more effort and time. dmg image format also is not supported natively Apple, as always, doesn’t follow standards The USB drive will be recognized as bootable by the MAC bootloader if it contains the following file structure. Open Mac APFS and HFS format disk drives and dmg files from Windows. Method 2: (Manual) Make a Bootable USB on Mac via Terminal (createinstallmedia commands) If you want to create the bootable USB installer directly via Mac, then the only way to do it is by using Terminal. There are a few difficulties to create a bootable usb stick in windows: Windows doesn’t support natively HFS Plus filesystem The.

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