Hi Simon,

Thanks.  I knew how to do it I just wanted to be sure.  Thanks all.


Matthew




On 02/05/2017 11:16 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

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


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