Note: This article refers to "USB stick" but it could be any kind of external drive.ġ) Grab a random 8GB or larger USB stick (or USB hard drive) and copy whatever you want to keep from it onto your computer's hard drive, because we're going to completely erase everything on that USB stick.Ģ) On the desktop, mount (just double click) the disk image (e.g. If the source volume that you want to clone already contains a System Folder that's appropriate for your Mac, then the resulting USB stick could be used to boot your Mac by inserting it in an USB port and rebooting while pressing down the OPT (ALT) key until you see the startup manager screen. You could also use this method to clone a small hard drive or any volume you want, given that it fits on the size of your USB drive. You can use this cloning method to make a bootable Mac OS X install USB stick or an ASD one. Here's how to make a bootable (or not) USB stick from a disk image in OSX using Disk Utility found under: Applications/Utilities/
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