Why wait for August and pay Apple a premium? If you have an 8GB USB key and you can download the Apple OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store, you can make your own bootable USB key. It's ...

Your new Mac doesn't include an installation media. With the help of a GUI, Jack Wallen shows you how to create a handy flash drive for macOS.

On Monday Apple finally unveiled to the world the next iteration of OS X, Mavericks. A developer preview of the new operating system is available now as a Mac App Store download for registered ...

Follow these steps to take to create a bootable USB installer drive for macOS Sierra to deploy version 10.12 of Apple's OS on supported devices.

Once you've obtained all of the necessary materials, connect the USB drive to your Mac and run the Diskmaker X app. The app will offer to make installers for OS X 10.8, 10.9, and 10.10, but we're ...

Beginning with 10.9, the best/only way to create a bootable USB is via createinstallmedia, or one of the third party GUI apps that likely just uses that command behind the scenes.

How to Boot a MacBook Air From a USB External Drive. While it's lightweight and has all the bells and whistles of the other models, the MacBook Air does have limitations.

Now that Apple has released OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you might want to consider creating a USB install drive for clean installs and future use.

Is your Mac about to crash? Here's how to create a bootable USB flash drive with a working version of macOS, so you can access your hard drive in the event of a glitch.