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How to make installation disk/pendrive of Mountain Lion in Windows 7? Ask Question Asked 7 years, 5 months ago.

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I have: a Mac OS.DMG file Windows 7 OS Is it possible to make installation disk of Mac OS in Windows 7.

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I would like to install Mac OS Mountain Lion in my Intel Core i3 processor.

Is there any easy and straight forward way to do this on windows? I got a new SSD and I am prepared to install it but first I need to create a new bootable USB with Mountain Lion on it to begin the process.

I need to install Mountain Lion on my Mac once again as the SSD is garbage.

Intel processor Turn on your Mac and immediately press and hold Command ()-R until you see an Apple logo or other image. Click the gear icon labeled Options, then click Continue. If you’re restoring from a network drive, you may have to connect to a wireless network before proceeding. Apple silicon Turn on your Mac and continue to press and hold the power button until you see the startup options window. Connect your USB drive, if you’re using one. Next, you’ll be asked which Time Machine drive you’d like to recover from.

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Follow these guidelines during installation: If the installer asks to unlock your disk, enter the password you use to log in to your Mac.

To start the installation process, select Reinstall macOS from the utilities window in macOS Recovery, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions. Don’t need to spend time and bandwidth to re-download OS X Lion.If you bought a new machine from Apple you have OS X 10.8 already installed – but no back up disk! and since you haven’t bought the OSX Lion 10.8 App from the App store you can’t re-download it – so thats why you have the recovery drive as a partition in your main hard drive, to boot from it you need to restart the machine and when it starts to boot hold down “command” + “r” keys. On the Restore From Time Machine page, hit the Continue button. Reinstalling macOS wont remove data from your Mac. Though a recovery partition will be created when you install OS X Lion, a installation DVD or thunmb drive is good to have for “clean install” or new hard drive. Start your Mac and hold down the Command + R key combination. Then you can boot into DVD or flash drive there. To use the OS X Lion DVD and USB flash drive, you press and hold “Option” key when you hear Mac startup chime at start up. How to boot into OS X Lion installer DVD or USB thumb drive

Click “Restore” button to create your bootable OS X Lion thumb drive.

After done formatting, click on the “Restore” tab, and choose the “InstallESD.dmg” file as “Source:” and your flash drive as the “Destination:”.

Click “Apply” button to format your thumb drive (all data on the thumb drive will be erased).

Click “Options…” button under the partition table and choose “GUID Partition Table”, so that the thumb drive is bootable. In my excitement yesterday about the release of the new Macintosh operating system called Lion, I downloaded and installed the new OS without thinking about creating a bootable DVD since Lion is the first Apple OS to NOT come on DVD but rather be distributed via the App Store. Apple doesn't sell Lion on a disk or flash drive, which doesn't give you much of an option to perform a clean install.

Under “Partition Information”, choose “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” for “Format:”.

Select the target drive, drag it and drop it at the 'Source' field. Then at the Mac Disk Utility interface, click 'Restore'. Then hit 'Erase' again and wait for the drive to remount on Mac.

Goto “Partition” tab and select “1 Partition” from the “Partition Layout” dropdown menu. At the drop-down list which has 'Format' options, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Plug in your thumb drive and select it in the left-hand sidebar in Disk Utility.

It takes more steps to make an OS X Lion thumb drive:

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Make offline OS X Lion installer flash drive Select the disk image (.dmg) in the Disk Utility’s sidebar, and click “Burn” button to start burning DVD.ĢB.Now, open “Disk Utility” app and drag the “InstallESD.dmg” file into the left-hand sidebar of Disk Utility.You will get a file called “InstallESD.dmg”.

Open “Contents” folder, then “SharedSupport”. Since your Mac has a new hard drive installed it won’t have a Recovery Partition so you’ll need to reinstall OS X over the Internet. OS X Recovery lets you reinstall OS X from either the Recovery Partition or over the Internet from servers that Apple operates. Right-click on the OS X installer and click “Show Package Contents”. OS X Lion (aka OS X 10.7) introduced a feature called OS X Recovery.

How to boot into OS X Lion installer DVD or USB thumb drive.