Click “An 8GB USB thumb drive” if you have a single drive to use or “Another kind of disk” to use a partition on a larger external drive. If it doesn’t detect the installer, you can navigate to the specific installer you want to use. It will then ask you where you want to copy the files. The app should automatically find the copy of OS X you’ve downloaded to your Applications folder. Select the Yosemite 10.10 option when presented with the following screen. Once done, connect the USB drive (8GB or larger) to your Mac and run the Diskmaker X app. Now grab the latest version of Diskmaker X app for free from here. This is more useful if you ever want to do a clean install of the operating system.īelow are the step-by-step instructions on how to create a bootable Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite install USB drive (via Ars Technica):ĭownload OS X 10.10 Yosemite from the Mac App Store, but don’t install it yet. While Apple does not officially offer its OS via optical media or USB sticks, you can always keep a physical copy of your Mac App Store download in the form of a bootable install USB drive. In line with the previous OS X updates, Apple released OS X 10.10 Yosemite earlier this week, exclusively as a digital download via Mac App Store for free.
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