
I recommend erasing the destination, so be sure to backup any data on the thumbdrive prior to this step! This will take a few minutes to do. (ie THUMBDRIVE in the screenshot) and then click Restore Once you have it chosen, click and drag your USB Thumbdrive from the left pane to the Destination box. Click on the Browse button and locate the. On the right pane, go to the Restore tab.ģ. This is very handy for us Macbook Air users that do not have an external optical drive.ġ. We can then boot the USB Drive on our Mac to install OS X Lion from it. dmg installer file for OS X Lion onto a usb thumbdrive.

#Make bootable usb with dmg in windows how to#
This recipe will explain how to make a USB Thumb Drive bootable with the OS X Lion Developer Preview installer on it and in turn allow you to install Lion on a Mac without an optical drive (ie Macbook Air line). Posted Februby Jimmy S in Apple Mac, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac system administration Can I make a bootable dvd usb drive with.dmg file.

How to Make Bootable USB drive with.DMG for Tiger, Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks OS X.

This ISO file is then burned using a command line execution in Command Prompt. Method 1: How to Create Bootable DVD from DMG (Command Prompt) This approach utilizes a tool called DMG2IMG, which converts DMG file into ISO, the universally more compatible archive format.
