Keep this for any future projects (although you’ll want to update to the newest version of OS X Mavericks installer before attempting this process again if any length of time passes by.) NOTE: (4.): This process will not work with Snow Leopard. Once done, congratulations! You have your bootable OS X Mavericks drive. Maybe an hour if your computer is really slow. If you think it’s messed up, just wait longer. I was a bit worried that it was taking longer than expected. This process will take about 30 minutes or so (depending on the speed of you computer). Enter your admin-level account password when prompted.Įrasing Disk: 0%.Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure it doesn’t contain any valuable data.
Find OS X Mavericks and click Download (chances are you already have it).
BOOTABLE USB MAC OS X MAVERICKS INSTALL
This little flash drive will plug into the side of the computer and we’ll tell the computer to read from it and install the operating system.
BOOTABLE USB MAC OS X MAVERICKS HOW TO
When you wipe your Macbook Pro clean, it needs some direction on how to come alive again. In this step, we’re going to make a OS X Mavericks boot drive.
In this next chapter, we’ll learn how to create an OS X Mavericks boot drive so once the computer is wiped clean, we can tell it to reinstall an operating system and come back to life. It also serves as an important archive for your data so you can access it and grab files whenever you want them on your ‘new’ Macbook Pro. In our last chapter, we learned how to backup your Macbook Pro with Time Machine in the event we have an issue while reformatting your Macbook Pro. You can always refer back to the table of contents to follow the entire process. Note: This post is part of the the series: Reformat Macbook Pro to make brand new.