How to Create macOS Bootable USB on a Windows PC

You have to create a bootable USB installer if your Mac crashed and not able to get into the desktop. Actually, creating a macOS USB installer on Mac is pretty easy with the built-in createinstallmedia command shipped with macOS install app, taking Catalina as example:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume

But the situation is totally different on a PC as they are totally different operating systems. In this article you’ll find out system requirements, items and steps to create a bootable USB for macOS installation on a Windows PC.

The process is not complex. The key is to find the right software to burn macOS DMG File to USB drive. Traditionally, TransMac is the only choice and you can see a lot of tutorial for this software. In this article, we will apply a new approach instead. The software is called UUByte DMG Editor, a lightweight and modern app to help you create macOS bootable USB on a Windows PC.

Supported macOS Version: Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, High Serria and Serria.

What You Need to Create a macOS Bootable USB

To start the process of creating a bootable USB installer for MacOS for different versions you’ll need the following items:

· A Windows PC or laptop

· macOS DMG file (any version but, minimum 10.12 or later).

· Installation file of UUByte DMG Editor

· USB flash drive with minimum 16 GB storage

Why Do You Need to Create a macOS Bootable USB

A USB drive is portable that has flash memory with an integrated interface. Compare to an optical disc, it is removable, rewritable and compact. You can easily store any kind of information, file and many more.

In USB you can easily write, enter and erase any information almost instantly. It is frequently used for the store; data back-up and transfer computer files. The primary services are store, transfer and send files from one another location with efficiency and effectiveness.

How to Create a macOS Bootable USB with UUByte DMG Editor

If you are having trouble to create a macOS bootable USB installer on Windows, then no worries. UUByte DMG Editor is an innovative and creative tool to create bootable USB from macOS dmg file. It is also capable of extracting files and folders from DMG File.

Step 1: The very first step of the process is to get maOS DMG dmg file for a target edition. You can download the file from Apple official website or third-party sources. The different versions of macOS are the following:

· macOS Big Sur

· macOS Catalina

· macOS Mojave

· macOS High Sierra

· macOS Sierra

Step 2: Download UUByte DMG Editor from this link (https://www.uubyte.com/download/dmg-editor.exe)and install it on your computer. Please click right button on the icon on desktop. Then, click ‘Run as Administrator’ from the flashed menu. Then, choose the ‘Run’ when prompted by the contextual menu.

Step 3: Now insert the formatted USB Flash drive. And kindly, click on the ‘Burn Tab’ on the appeared screen.

Step 4: After clicking on the ‘Burn Tab’, click on the ‘Browse’ option button to import the macOS DMG file. In the program, select the USB drive name from the options available in rows. The USB drive volume label can also be set.

Step 5: Upon setting up the volume label, take you mouse key at the bottom to ‘Burn’ option to click. As soon as you click on the ‘Burn’ option, the process will start immediately. The process will take longer to execute the process and will take 10 minutes approximately.

Now, a USB flash drive is created successfully as it has been turned around a bootable macOS USB. You can easily use it to install macOS on your Mac.

If the drive was not recognized, then you should convert USB to GPT partition manually as USB flash drive is formatted to FAT32 mostly by default. FAT32 is used in the installation of OS with the legacy BIOS. And, this format doesn’t support for macOS.

Before burning the installation files to the desired USB drive, format your drive in the GPT Partition Style. There are numerous ways and steps to format the drive. One of the simplest and smart way with the help of command prompt as administrator. Simply you need to press the (CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER) simultaneously. Then, input the following commands one by one:

· diskpart

· list Disk

· delect Disk X

· clean

· convert GPT

· create Partition Primary

These are the commands that should be entered step by step after each executes.

Conclusion

The complete process looks complicated for fresher. But, by following the steps of this article you get it done so smoothly. The whole process is very simple, efficient, effective and great. Sometimes, you need to be careful like when you’re downloading the DMG File, formatting the USB drive.

Before implementing the steps, read the article thoroughly. If not followed properly, the output drive won’t function from UUByte DMG Editor software. If it happens then, the USB drive doesn’t contain bootable macOS for installation. And, need to do the whole process again which is time taking.