Yes it does, You have to boot the machine to the USB I’d use the option key at start up, just hold option down for approx. 20 seconds and then let it run for a while .
You then have to select the USB device as the start up option and then once it has run up you can start vo and use disk utilities to format the existing drive and then reinstall from scratch. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of matthew dyer Sent: Monday, 6 February 2017 4:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Creating a bootible recovery for reinstalling sear? Hi, This is already done. Here is the question. Will this work with forating the internal drive for reinstall. I just used disk makerX for this. I just wanted to be sure that It work for doing a clean install for erasing and repartitioning the drive if this makes any sense. Matthew On 02/05/2017 04:10 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Matthew, I just use Terminal for this. You need an 8 gb USB drive named Untitled for this to work. Connect the USB drive then open Terminal and type in or copy and paste the following command: sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app —nointeraction Press Return and you’ll be asked for your password. Give it plenty of time to do its thing. You’ll hear: Erasing Disk: 0%… 10%… 20%…100%… Copying installer files to disk… Copy complete. Making disk bootable… Copying boot files… Copy complete. Done. The resulting drive will be called Install macOS Sierra. Cheers, Anne On 4 Feb 2017, at 23:46, matthew dyer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Last night, I downloaded recovery disk assistant from support.apple.com<http://support.apple.com>, but when I tried to runn it, It freezes and I just get recovery disk assistant has no windows and I have to force quit the app. I now I have a bootable install thanks to disk makerX but would ideally like to have a copy of the recovery on my usb drive. Here is my question, Is anyone still using recovery disk assistant to make a boogiele usb recovery or is disk makerX good enough. I would like to do a clean install, but want to be sure that what I have will work before I use it. Also, If I do use the usb installer if lets say something happens and I had to reinstall, willl it give me a copy of the latexes version of sear or will I have to get it through software update? I did listen to mike area’s podcast on upgrading and he used recovery disk assistant to make a bootable recovery but on my machine It doesn’t work. Thanks again for everyone’s help in advance.. Matthew -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
