FAT32 is popular but the 4GB file-size limit makes it inconvenient, for instance when you want to make a bootable macOS Sierra USB drive which the system file takes about 8GB of storage space according to Apple. Creating a USB Installer for Apple OS X 10.5-10.6 Insert Apple OS X Install DVD into Optical Drive. Launch Disk Utility and click on the OS X Install DVD from the left-hand menu. Click on the Restore tab and verify that the Mac OS X Install DVD appears in the Source text box. Drag & drop the. Click to expand.You skipped a few steps. Let me tell you how to proceed from where you are first. Then I'll tell you what I did and you may decide to do the same. From where you are, boot from USB stick, then click Apple logo and run Disk Utility. Using wd my book with mac thats set up for windows 7. Disk Utility should see your new SSD as unpartitioned space. Pick 'partition' and then select 1 partition HFS+ Journaled. Before you hit apply, check options and make sure 'GUID partition scheme' is selected. You may now proceed with the OSX install and now it should see the SSD as a possible destination. You are facing a rather lengthy restore from Time Machine or migration from Time Machine or whatever after the OS installs, which itself isn't exactly instantaneous. What I think might have been easier is what I did: 1-Plug in your new SSD using a USB to SATA cable. 2-Use Disk Utility to create a single partition HFS+ Journaled, GUID partition scheme 3-Use CCC *(shareware $39, well worth it) to clone your existing drive, including the recovery partition (separate step) over to your new drive. This took 4 hours for 200 gig for me (completely unattended). 4-Hold down option while rebooting and boot from the SSD you just cloned. 5-If all is normal, THEN open up your Mac and put in the new SSD. * CCC is carbon copy cloner. It was donationware until recently. You can use the trial version for 30 days without paying. This is more than enough time to install a new HDD. I opted to pay because though I don't use CCC that often, I do use it often enough to pay for it. Ok I was just coming here to say I found out I have the option to choose disk utility. I didn't follow what you suggested, please tell me if I should re-do it! I went to disk utility, and selected erase, then chose 'journal extended' and it erased my drive. Now when I selected new os install, I could see my SSD. So it seems I didn't do teh GUID partition scheme as you suggested, and maybe the HFS part also. Should I re-do it? It seems to be installing mountion lion juse fine (it is 75% done isntalling). You skipped a few steps. Let me tell you how to proceed from where you are first. Then I'll tell you what I did and you may decide to do the same. From where you are, boot from USB stick, then click Apple logo and run Disk Utility. Disk Utility should see your new SSD as unpartitioned space. Pick 'partition' and then select 1 partition HFS+ Journaled. Before you hit apply, check options and make sure 'GUID partition scheme' is selected. What I think might have been easier is what I did: 1-Plug in your new SSD using a USB to SATA cable. 2-Use Disk Utility to create a single partition HFS+ Journaled, GUID partition scheme 3-Use CCC (shareware $39, well worth it) to clone your existing drive, including the recovery partition (separate step) over to your new drive. This took 4 hours for 200 gig for me. 4-Hold down option while rebooting and boot from the SSD you just cloned. 5-If all is normal, THEN open up your Mac and put in the new SSD. CCC is carbon copy cloner. It was donationware until recently. • Locate GIF Capture for Jira (MAC OS) via search. • Click Find new apps or Find new add-ons from the left-hand side of the page. Mac app for jira. You can use the trial version for 30 days without paying. This is more than enough time to install a new HDD. ![]() I opted to pay because though I don't use CCC that often, I do use it often enough to pay for it. Ok I was just coming here to say I found out I have the option to choose disk utility. I didn't follow what you suggested, please tell me if I should re-do it! I went to disk utility, and selected erase, then chose 'journal extended' and it erased my drive. Now when I selected new os install, I could see my SSD. So it seems I didn't do teh GUID partition scheme as you suggested, and maybe the HFS part also. Should I re-do it? It seems to be installing mountion lion juse fine (it is 75% done isntalling). Hello and welcome to my User Tip. I will explain to you just the basics how storage drives operate in regards to different operating systems, formatting and partitions, especially sharing data with Windows PC's which is the most common asked about issue. For simplicity sake, I have stuck to the most current used formats and steps on Mac's and PC's that your likely to encounter and encouraged to use now.
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