![]() ![]() Select GUID Partition Table in the Popup box and Click OK and Click Apply to the Disk Utility. Plug in the USB drive to the Mac and Launch Disk Utility Now Select the USB drive from the left side menu and Select Partition tab and choose 1 Partition. Update: Lion Disk Maker released DiskMaker X 3.0. Preparing USB drive for Bootable OS X Mavericks. Most freshly formatted flash dives are named 'Untitled' unless you change it as I did. Note: Remember to replace 'Untitled' with your flash drives name. ![]() Sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/Untitled -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app -nointeraction About 20 ~ 30 mins (don't remove the flash drive until you see "Done" in the terminal).Put your old drive in an enclosure and stick it on the imac if the drive is not completely dead and see if you can salvage some of your files, or restore via a time machine back. The Install OS X Mavericks App from the Mac App Store Get OS X on a bootable thumb drive maybe off a friends mac, stick it in the imac with the new drive, boot via the usb drive and have it install OS X on the new drive.USB flash drive of 8 GB or larger capacity.Terminal (in the Utilities folder or press cmd shift u from the Finder).Select Use this copy to use the Install OS X Mavericks app from. This video will show you how to do it, so go grab an 8 GB or larger USB stick and follow along. Upon opening the app, select the button Mavericks (10.9). Luckily with Mavericks, Apple has included a tool to allow us to create a bootable USB flash drive with a few simple terminal commands. ![]() In the past few versions of OS X, if you wanted to create a bootable USB stick, you had to do a little bit of Erica Sadun-style nerd wizardry or download a third-party tool like Lion Disk Maker to create one. Having a bootable USB flash drive of your operating system is a very useful tool to have around for diagnostics, maintenance or fresh clean installs of your OS. ![]()
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