The DVD disc contains the installation of Snow Leopard.In this article, we will create a USB flash drive that installs the Snow Leopard operating system in place of this operating system DVD.īefore installing, you need the following devices: Also, with this USB drive you can use it for many other systems without CD-ROM drive (eg Netbook).

This is the case where the USB installation drive will become very useful. However, there is no guarantee that your DVD drive will always work stably while you need to reinstall or upgrade your operating system. I'm intermediate tech-savvy at best, so that's all a bit over my head.Network administrators - Every Mac system has a DVD drive, and in most situations you won't need a Snow Leopard USB drive. Is there a step or a format issue I am missing? I've read mention of things like partitions and GUID and MBR and wonder any of that may be it. However, my Macbook can't seem to find the thing when I hold the Alt key. Drum fingers while the stick is formatted. (I think this version may not need to decompress the DMG, for I get no other prompts.)ĥ. Right-click USB stick and Format with Disk Image using the new DMG.Ĥ.

Use Transmac to make DMG of my retail DVD of Snow Leopard.ģ. I keep trying the instructions from assorted places on using Transmac:ġ. And it would be moot anyway, since my current OS is not booting at all, hence the need for the new one. My optical drive has been crummy for months, but i never really use it anymore. Sorry to bump an older thread, but I am having a similar case, where I need to make an installable Snow Leopard USB stick using windows. I'm not sure whether there are any licensing issues here, but I do own a legit license for osx, and it is to be installed on my MacBook. In short: Use win 7, running on my mac, to create a bootable usb mac osx installer which I can then use to install OS X on said mac. dmg of the installer to an 8GB flash stick, from which I may install to my Mac. So I want to use windows 7 on my macbook to write the. Here's the crunch: I don't have a dual-layer disk to which to burn my backup image. I decided to try Windows 7 (I know.dumb) and now I've had it.I want my OS X back. dmg I ripped from it for archival backup purposes. My DVD got fragged in the engine compartment of my van (please don't ask.'kids' is the answer) and I don't have the disk any more. I purchased my MacBook (Q4-2009) from a pawn shop and my OS X Snow Leopard disk from the Mac Store.

I apologize for my first post being a call for help, but I am kinda stuck right now.

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