How to Create Bootable USB Mac OS X installer from Both Windows and Mac

Hey guys,

There are many ways to Create Bootable USB mac osx installer, but I am going to explain only useful information here.

I’ll start with the Windows Tutorial…

  1. Downloads: Click here to Download PowerISO with crack.
  2. Installing: Install PowerISO, it’s crack.
  3. Bootabling : Click on Open and select your DMG or ISO file then click on tools—>Create a bootable USB.
  4. Device: Select your device to install it on.
  5. Start: Click on Start and wait until it finishes ( for 4.5 GB it takes about 3/5 minutes….).
  6. Finish!: Congratulations! Now you have a bootable USB media… please if it won’t work by selecting F12 at boot prompt, modify the BIOS to boot the USB before everything!

*** ONLY IF ABOVE WON’T WORK!

  1. File ——-> open ——> select your dmg/iso file.
  2. Right Click on USB device ——> Format with disk image and select your disk image.
  3. Start format and wait…
  4. You now should have your Mac OS X bootable USB!

Mac… It’s Easier

  1. Programs: Open Disk Utility.
  2. Selections: Select the USB you want to make bootable.
  3. Clicks: Click on Erase —–> Format: Mac OS Journaled Name: whateveryouwant
  4. Wait: Wait until it finishes erase….
  5. Selections: Click (on the left) your USB media you have just formatted then click Restore.
  6. Clicks: For Source: Click on Image and select your DMG or ISO image For Destination : drag the USB media from the left to the textbox
  7. Clicks: Click on Restore and wait….. it may take up to 10 minutes…
  8. Finishes: If you note that your file isn’t bootable then download chameleon bootloader or chimera one and install it (with all customizations you need ) to your USB media….

Third Method – Create macOS Bootable USB Installer using SYSGeeker UltraDMG

UltraMDG from SYSGeeker is an easy-to-use application helping you to create a bootable USB installer from macOS without clicks, no command required and risk free. It supports burning 5+ image file to USB flash drive or DVD/CD, including DMG, Bin, Img and Raw and support the latest macOS monterey and big sur.

Step 1. First of all, you need to download and install UltraDMG on your Mac or windows computer, then launch it.


Step 2.  To create a macOS bootable USB drive, you need to select ‘BURN’ option and browse your local DMG file, then connect your USB flash to your computer.


Step 3. It will take about 10 minutes to finish the burning process, please wait it to be completed, and don’t disconnect your USB drive during the burning.


Step 4. When it shows “Burning Completed”, means you’ve successfully created a macOS installer. Now, you can connect your USB to your broken Mac computer and install the new macOS.

There are numerous situations when a bootable USB macOS installer may come in handy, SYSGeeker UltraDMG will be your best assistant to help you easily reinstall mac system without complicated command line. It allows every novice to reinstall the system by themselves.

I Hope it helps!

*** When I was trying to make a mac OS X usb bootable drive, I googled so much & found many blogs telling me how to make it form running Mac OS. But no one tells, how to make Mac OS X bootable installer pen drive from windows. I hope it will help you.  For any reply or suggestions please comment.

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101 Comments

  1. Flp Pnnt Alf

    O link não está mais disponivel, qual a versão exata do Power Iso que voce usou? Estou precisando instalar um macOS em um macbook com o SSd limpo mas não tenho outro mac disponível p criar o pendrive bootavel. TransMac e o Balena não estão dando jeito.

  5. Aman Kumar

    I have yosemite dmg file on my Windows PC, I want to install OS on my PC having 8GB ram and 1tb had, how can I install Mac OS on my non Apple PC. Give all instruction in detail.

  6. Ahmed

    HI, i need to restore my MAC for a yosemite which i am not able to find in apple store. Can you please share a .dmg for to create a bootable usb from windows

  7. Kesavan

    Bro. I finished as you said in my pen drive both the methods in my windows PC by downloading bootable Mac os installer.DMG . after finished I boot into the pen drive in both UEFI and Legacy but it displays that this not containing Os and it displays error. What can I do? Reply sir

  8. Ovidiu

    Hey. Thanks for the tutorial, but it doesn’t work. I followed your steps and when I plug in the USB stick in my macbook it doesn’t show up even if i press “C” key or “option” key.It only shows the HDD partition called Windows. Any advice ?? Thanks

        1. Makarand Mane

          Actually I had did this experiment for installing a macintosh on windows pc. I never tried to boot on macbook. Can’t help you now on this. You can mail me screenshot.

  10. kunta

    hello Mane, thanks for your help. my own case is peculiar, i have a macbook pro, i mistakenly formatted my mac hard drive , now i want to do a clean installation of mac os, with a pen drive made bootable with windows, how do i achieve that.

  11. rizve joarderr

    First I want to say thanks. I looked all over the net but I don’t see anyone actually telling me how I can make bootable pen drive and finally I get it. I have a question, I can run windows and mac in different drive using this? Does this allow me? I really need to run both. May I need to set any other bios settings?

  12. Rishabh Arora

    created bootable usb through poweriso , but when i am booting my laptop with usb nothing happens
    it simply starts with windows.

    1. Makarand Mane

      Hi Rishabh

      Simply check your BIOS settings for booting. Give high priority to flash drive. If you are already using Windows 8 then it forcefully skips bios check, then you can terminate windows forcefully and try to reboot. Or you can press F10 or F12 at start to get boot selection menu and boot via USB.

      1. Rishabh Arora

        hey i m using windows 10 on dell inspiration 3537
        and i am not able to give high priorities to flash drive
        please help 🙁

        1. Makarand Mane

          Hi Reshav,

          In this case you have help yourself. You must look inside bios settings. I never used DELL. So don’t know its bios keys. Generally its F2 or DEL.

          If Windows 10 skipping bios check, then terminate machine abnormally by pressing power button until you are able to access bios (generally 2-4 times).

  13. audre

    Im trying to make a bootable usb on this PowerISO app but my usb isnt showing up in the drop down menu, do i need to format it ?

    1. Makarand Mane

      Hi audre,

      If it detected and shown in your computer then it should show in PowerISO. Try reformatting pen drive but I don’t that is issue. It should not happen if pern drive working well.

  14. Edmund

    i have Mac Os x yosemite installer downloaded in torrent i cannont booth it in the USB because PowerISO dont sopport the file..how can i solve this?

  21. Celal Orhan

    Hi Mr. Mane. I have Macbook 2010 and deleted all my hard drive. Internet recovery gives me a warning like item could not be found when trying to download. Can you give me some instructions to download a latest OS X version where I will have legal copy of latest IMovie? Thank you in advance.

  22. Maxwell

    mr. Mane, thank so much for your support but I still have a problem, after I created the bootable pen drive in windows I did not see my pen drive after restarting Macbook Pro

    1. Makarand Mane

      Hey max,

      Nice to here from you that, it helped you. Just check your bios settings for, is it has higher boot priority for USB device. Onc check that pen drive is Prepared proerly by booting other machine or virtual machine.

      1. grundy1960

        Hey Mak
        Theres no such thing as a bios setting in a Mac to change the priority is this tutorial to boot pen dive in windows i
        have same problem as Maxwell wont boot in Mac do i need to add a bootloader with power iso
        grundy1960

        1. Makarand Mane

          Hey Grundy,

          I wrote this tutorial to prepare bootable pen drive of MAC in windows. In Mac OS there is default tool present in OS which helps you to prepare Bootable stick. I never used Mac machine actually, so cant say that bios setting exist there or not. But I am sure there must be any tool which will help you to change priorities bootloader.

          1. Arthur

            Dear Makarand, about making the MAC bootable USB in windows is it necessary to format the drive using certain program or just right click-format will do?

          2. Makarand Mane

            No need of any certain program. It will be done by powerISO while preparing bootable pen drive. You can also format by same procedure(right click-format).

  24. Tom

    Hi Makarand Mane,

    My Powerbook G4 doesn’t have an option for BIOS as the HD messed up. How can I boot the USB automatically?

    Thanks

  25. div

    yesterday without taking backup i have formated the macbookair.after formatting i thought i can install it.but its downloading from server which is very slow.so i have downloaded mavericks.dmg file from torrentz.so how can i install it from a usb drive.sir,could you plz explain what to do?

    1. Makarand Mane

      First follow tutorial to prepare pendrive. If you mac machine then I think pen drive will work automatically. If you have another machine where you use like windows OS then you have use third party software to boot that pen drive.

  27. manitou

    I have i5-3570K, asus z77-a, 8gb ram, geforce GTX660, ssd 250gb…

    Can i install mac os x mavericks on clean OS PC with bootable USB i made from your way above?

    1. Makarand Mane

      To Install Mac successfully you PC virtualization enabled in BIOS. Computers from and above I3 supports hardware virtualization. check your bios settings and go ahead.

  28. Fahmi Rahman

    Here my laptop spesification : Proc: AMD A6-3400M, Bios: Phoenix Securecore Tiano, VGA: ATI Radeon HD 6520G. Will this tutorial work for my laptop? I have Niresh Mavericks. Thanks a lot!

  29. CoFeX

    So here’s a question: My Mac has been formatted, I can’t access any other PC than a Windows 7 one and I’m downloading a Mavericks 10.9.2 DMG file. Will this tutorial work to load Mavericks to a USB and then boot it on my MacBook AIR to install the OS X?

    1. Makarand Mane

      Hi Bryan,

      Thanks for comment. Link you said in comment, I took raw material from same link. That’s why both are same. At end of blog I wrote that I googled a lot… and finally got this useful link. Thought to share with world, for persons who seek for this Information like me.

  31. LalitSan

    Hello
    I have a Dell Laptop model n 5010 With i3 can I Install Mac On my Laptop i have os snow lepord .dmg file how can create a bootable usb from my ussing windows
    help me

    1. Makarand Mane

      Hi LalitSan,

      Please follow procedure given in post to create bootable pen drive in windows. To install Apple your laptop must support hardware virtualization. Intel core i3 should be having VT-x support. Go Ahead.

      1. Lalitsen

        i have try your given follow steps pls send me step by step guide for install mac on windows from usb
        i have try many step but i cannot install mac in my laptop
        thanks

  32. hypersoar

    I’ll make an bootable usb in windows.

    Could you refer me an bootable mac. Where can i download it. Could you send me an link ?

    Thanks a lot.

      1. hypersoar

        thx a lot, but I tried both iso /dmg files. I made a bootable usb and dvd but if i restart my comp and boot from dvd or usb it doesn’t see it and start my windows again. what sould i make? 

        Note: my hdd is 2 parts. 320GB totally 1. part is 200GB(which I want install mac) 2.part is 120GB(I have other files, just file no OS) 

  34. Nnm

    My PC has no vt-x support so I need a mac os x installer like wubi to safely install it inside windows. Pls let me know if there’s something available!..

      1. Nnm

        I meant to install mac on the real pc, not vm. I have emachines e725 with intel core 2 duo, 3 gb ram and 250 gb hdd and some people on InsanelyMac had succesfully installed it on this configuration.
        Wubi has an option to install ubuntu inside windows(into a large file without creating a new partition). I don’t want to endanger my hardware and important data so i’d prefer to install mac the same way.

        1. Makarand Mane

          As I know Mac needs hardware virtualization support. Intel core 2 duo should be having VT-x support, that’s why they are successful. If you have this configuration then definitely try.

          I never tried for Wubi for installing ubuntu inside windows. But this option is definitely preferable. Go ahead. Anything useful please comment.

  35. sairam

    I have Lenovo Z570 laptop, with 4GB RAM, and i was downloded Mac OS X 10.6 that was in .dmg extension, then how to install this mac on my laptop..? & will it support or not..?(in 2011year i was bought).. please suggest me..!

    1. Makarand Mane

      If hardware of your laptop supports Virtualization Technology, then try to install Mac, otherwise installation will not start. Check your Bios settings to get sure about VT-x/AMD-V enabled.

      1. Shahabuddin

        Hi Mr. Mane, i wanna “os x 10.5 (9A3111)” to download & install on my MacBook as i have missed installer discs. Would you please give me a link to download the same.
        Model No: A1181 (EMC 2200), os x 10.5 9A3111.

        Thanks.

  36. Maulik

    Hey

    If I create the bootable USB via downloading the installer on windows and using the windows method, will I still be able to use that USB to restore/recover on my macbook air?

    Thanks

      1. Maulik

        Cool what I meant to say is will it still work as a Mac boot device, if it is formatted on windows(dos type) instead of mac os x extended. Or will I have to partition/format the usb on a mac to make it work as a boot device for my macbook.

  38. parag

    Hi Makarand, So are you able to make bootable pen drive installer from Mac OS X dmg file

    1. Makarand Mane

      Hi Parag, Whatever procedure given for windows in this post I had practically gone, & after success I posted it. If you have any trouble, please comment.

  41. Sanjay

    It shows an error.. Unable to Restore. USB is busy. (am using MAC OS X 10.7 in VMWare WS 9)

  42. kazuki yano

    have been all day searching for some way to do this. thanks man, I hope it Works.

    1. Makarand Mane

      Hey kazuki yano,

      Thank you for first comment on my website. I hope It will work for you definitely. I am also posted this after searching for lots of stuff.

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