There is no doubt about the fact that you will save a lot of trouble and hassle if you install the macOS Sierra on an external drive. It will even let you use the same hard drive with multiple Macs, without updating to Sierra on each of those. However, to begin with, this, you wil...
How to install MacOS on an extrnal drive to use for startup disk? I would like to install a fresh, new System on my 2018 MacMini to use as a startup drive. I DO NOT want to overwrite the current system on the computer. I have formated the external drive correctly and followed the...
i ran into an interesting issue with trying to install MacOS on an external drive where the installer upon rebooting said that it could not recognize the startup disk. that stopped being a problem once I reformatted the external drive from HFS to APFS. i am trying to find explicit documenta...
I need space on my HD on Macbook Air and i install all my app on an external SSD disk. It doesnt work for LR and PS, even if i choose the destination disk in CC Account / Preference / Application ... ! TOPICS Installation
then you can reinstall macOS as you would normally do. These steps include formatting the new hard drive before actually proceeding to the installation part. Once that's done, you may continue to install macOS on the hard drive using the method you prefer. Without further ado, let's get st...
we need to do something about this. Rather than working through Apple's installer, you download that once and stop it before it begins working. Then type some commands in Terminal to extract Mojave, and put the installer on an external drive so you can re-use it without having to download...
But sometimes, we may require a clean installation of the macOS version for hardware/software troubleshooting or to be able to install the same macOS system on multiple devices at the same time. In this regard, you need to install macOS from an external drive or USB. The easiest and most ...
Is your D drive a partition, VHD or another physical drive? is it internal or external and how is it connected? Sorry for the questions, just trying to find some common ground. I only use physical drive for D. Usually I do not install...
use Time Machine on macOS to back up all your data to an external hard drive use the Recovery app and Disk Utility to erase your Mac’s startup disk partition and install a previous version of macOS use Migration Assistant to restore your data and apps from your Time Machine backup to yo...
Once you've done that, restart your Mac and holdCommand + Rto get into the boot menu again. Then, select theInstall macOSoption to boot into your external drive. Intel Macs If you have an Intel Mac without a T2 chip, simply power on the system or restart it if it's already on, an...