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How to Make Boot Disk for Mac?
The latest MacBook Pro and iMac are coming with a built-in SD slot to give more convenience for users. At the first sight, this newly added SD slot provides a great convenience for your file exchange, such as music, video, documents, etc. Of course, this is also the main use of the new interface.
Apple also gives an additional meaning to this newly added SD slot. That is you can use it to create a SD card boot disk. While this SD boot/rescue disk can be a useful tool in the future for the hard disk first aid, data recovery of deleted files recovery, etc. in the future. This article is specially designed to teach you how to create such a start/rescue disk.
In fact, this useful start/first aid disk can working differently for different users. You can just refer to some of the ideas in this article to explore more functions by yourself. Now just let go ahead to see how to make boot disk for Mac for specific purpose.
How to Make Boot Disk for Mac?
What do you need to prepare for making boot disk for iMac?
* A MacBook Pro or 2009 iMac with built-in SD card slot;
* The Mac OS X installation disk of your Mac computer;
* Proposed to prepare a 16GB or 32GB of SD card. At least 8GB. (Any brands of SD card are available, but may be relatively slower than the SanDisk Extreme III ones. You can just refer to the list of compatible SD from Apple's official site to choose one.)
* The installation disk of your commonly used software and program in Mac OS X;
Note: This tutorial focuses on creating a personalized boot disk, but you can use the retail version of snow leopard installation disc to create a to restart all Mac boot disk.
How to Make boot disk for Mac?
1. Insert the SD card in your MacBook or iMac. Then you should open "Macintosh HD -> Applications -> Utilities" to select SD disk in the left panel;
2. Select a "partition" from the drop-down menu of the "Valume Information". Then select the format "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
3. At last, click the "Apply" option to wait a little bit. Then a format of SD card is ready. After that you're ready to install Mac OS to a SD card.
How to install Mac OS X in SD card?
1. Insert the supplied installation disk for Mac OS X. Double-click on the install icon to install it.
2. Select the install destination disk for the SD card. Click "Continue" and select "custom" in the following installation screen.
3. Now you have to select the components you want to install. At here, you can uncheck the components you not need, such as additional fonts, language pack, X11, printer drivers, etc. In this way, the space can be compressed to 6.2GB.
4. At last you only need to click "Install". Then the Mac OS X will automatically be installed to the SD card. The installation may take you about an hour or so.
After installation, you can use the Mac OS X on your SD card to start. Holding down the "Option" button in the restart, you will enter into a boot manager menu. Just select the SD card to start it.
on Mac OS X started in the restart while holding down the "Option" button, you will enter into a boot menu, select SD card boot on it. Start completed as shown below:
Finally, you can then install your favorite disk tools and other software freely. If you enjoy copy DVD movies for backup on your Mac, then you can just install a proper DVD Copy for Mac on your Mac to copy DVDs.
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