Bootable Flash Drive Mac



Connect to your Mac the hard drive or flash drive you want to use for your bootable Lion installer. This drive must be at least 5GB in size (an 8GB flash drive works well), and it must be. Is there any way to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from the terminal without using any third-party applications like YUMI, Unetbootin, Startup Disk Creator, etc. If we must look for text mode tools that are already installed in Ubuntu, I am afraid that there are no safe tools available. The general steps to install Windows OS on a USB flash drive are like this: First, create a bootable USB flash drive. Second, download the Windows image on the bootable USB drive. Third, go into the BIOS settings, set the USB as the boot priority and choose to boot from USB. Using Michael D. Dryden's Link, I was able to use the Diskpart command to clean and prep a GPT partition on a flash drive for an OSX Mavericks install image. I used TransMac on Windows 7 to restore the image file I had to the Flash Drive, it created a bootable Mac image on my flash drive.

To use a USB to wipe an old hard drive on a Windows PC:

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  1. Download the DBAN *.iso image from http://www.dban.org/download.
  2. Insert a USB flash drive with 32MB+ available space.
  3. Download the Universal USB-Installer, which converts the *.iso image to USB flash http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer/Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.6.6.exe
  4. Run Universal USB Installer, select “DBAN” from the drop down list, and follow the onscreen instructions.
  5. Once the USB conversion is complete, restart the computer, and from the boot menu (see computer manufacturer’s instructions for how to select a boot device), boot from the USB device.
  6. At the DBAN menu, type “autonuke” and let it run!

By ITServices Admin|September 26th, 2016|Categories: Tech Tips|Comments Off on Make a bootable USB flash drive to wipe an old hard drive

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