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How to Create macOS High Sierra Bootable USB for Reinstall | Microsoft Community Hub
You just need to download High Sierra bootable dmg and burn the dmg file to USB drive. That is all of it. This is the easiest way to make a bootable macOS USB on any PC or Mac without restrictions. P.S. I am following this useful guide and managed to create three bootable USB for macOS High ...
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How to Create macOS Bootable USB from Windows 10/11?(Latest)
September 4, 2023 - Learn how to create a macOS bootable USB from Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, and 7, applicable for creating a High Sierra bootable USB from Windows or with another macOS version.
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make a macOS usb stick with windows - Apple Community
I used a software called UltraDMG to make a macOS bootable USB drive on my Windows 11.
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How to Create a macOS High Sierra Installer Flash Drive on Windows
March 19, 2024 - Learn step-by-step how to format and convert a flash drive into a macOS High Sierra installer using a Windows 10/11 computer. Follow this comprehensive guide to prepare your USB drive and boot your Mac for a seamless installation process.
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r/mac on Reddit: Install high Sierra from USB
December 30, 2023 -

Hi all! I was gifted a 21.5 late 2011 iMac and the hard drive has been wiped, since the online recovery doesn't work anymore and I need to reinstall everything before I start upgrading the hardware, so I can check if everything works as intended.

I only have a PC with Windows, how can I make a bootable USB, so I can reinstall high Sierra on this iMac?

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How to Create USB Bootable macOS High Sierra [Full Guide]
February 7, 2025 - This post tells how to create a USB bootable macOS High Sierra in detailed steps. Guide you to create acHigh Sierra bootable USB from Mac and Windows PC.
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This can be done via console for Windows 10/11 iso images (Not sure about 8/7, but leave any comment if it worked for you).
Start connecting your usb drive and type diskutil list to display all connected drives.
You'll see something like:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         500.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            185.7 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 47.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      4.3 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.6 GB    disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 LALA                    15.6 GB    disk2s1

For my case, the usb drive was /dev/disk2. Knowing this, format your usb drive with:

diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "WINDOWS10" MBR disk2

where disk2 is the usb drive id known in the prior command and "WINDOWS10" is the volume label (to be used later).
Please double check this step, or you could delete all data in another drive.
Then mount your image with:

hdiutil mount your_windows_10_image.iso

the command will return the location of the mounted iso

/dev/disk3                                      /Volumes/CPRA_X64FREV_ES-MX_DV5

so finally copy all the files from the mounted iso to your usb drive:

cp -rpv /Volumes/CPRA_X64FREV_ES-MX_DV5/* /Volumes/WINDOWS10

Update:

Look closely the copied files, as if you see a message like:

cp: /Volumes/CPRA_X64FREV_ES-MX_DV5/sources/install.wim: File too large

that's because the install.wim file is larger than 4GB, too large for your just created FAT32 partition in your USB stick (back in the day I originally posted this answer, probably the file wasn't that big). In this case, you will need to slipt it and copy it with the Windows Imaging libraries. So, using Homebrew install them with:

brew install wimlib

then call after (clearly, replacing the volume folder names to yours):

wimlib-imagex split /Volumes/CPRA_X64FREV_ES-MX_DV5/sources/install.wim /Volumes/WINDOWS10/sources/install.swm 3000

and now you will have two or more files with a swm extension instead of wim, where they won't be larger than 3GB

-rwxrwxrwx  1 alter  staff   2.9G 26 Nov 01:03 /Volumes/WINDOWS10/sources/install.swm
-rwxrwxrwx  1 alter  staff   1.5G 26 Nov 01:08 /Volumes/WINDOWS10/sources/install2.swm
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For the future search, this solution works for me:

https://joshb.github.io/2017/11/23/making-a-bootable-windows-10-usb-drive-on-macos-high-sierra/

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March 31, 2022 - A step-by-step guide to create macOS installation USB drive on Windows 11, Windows 10 or Windows 7 using the trial copy of TransMac software.
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Making a bootable High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows or Linux Mint (without access to Mac or App Store Installer.app) - Tutorials (The Genius Bar) | InsanelyMac
September 28, 2020 - Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded "Install macOS High Sierra.app" from a real Mac ). @PikeRA...
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How to Create High Sierra bootable USB from Windows 10 PC [Steps] – Techs & Gizmos
You should make sure you are trying to make MacOS High Sierra Installation bootable USB according to system requirements mentioned above and you are using right way to make this bootable USB. It is quite simple & easy to create MacOS High Sierra Installation bootable USB on Windows 10/8/7 computer with our instructions.
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Making a Bootable Windows 10 USB Drive on macOS High Sierra - Josh Beam's Website
My first instinct was to use dd to copy the ISO to the USB drive (as one typically does when installing a Linux distribution, for example), but it turns out that this does not satisfy the UEFI boot process. After some research and a lot of trial and error, I found that the USB drive must be formatted with a FAT32 partition and the MBR partitioning scheme, after which you can simply mount the Windows 10 ISO in macOS and copy the files to the drive.
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Once you have the dmg file, the next step is to burn High Sierra dmg to a USB drive. This process will help you make a bootable USB for installation. UUByte DMG Editor is a well-known bootable disk creator that works on any Windows PC and Mac, including the Apple Silicon Mac.
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r/mac on Reddit: Trying to make bootable usb flash drive with Mac OS high sierra 10.13.6. I have some questions
October 6, 2023 -

I followed a link from this article:

https://mackeeper.com/blog/how-to-make-a-bootable-high-sierra-installer/

The link within the article is this:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?ls=1&mt=12

Background info: I’m trying to use my working Mac desktop to download a Mac OS install bootable usb for my other Mac desktop.

-1st question: the App Store says it’s 4.8 GB. After I downloaded it, it says it’s 5.23 GB (for all the files associated with it I assume). But when I look up how much space it should take, I keep seeing figures from 12 to 20 GB. Why the discrepancy?

-2nd question: I wasn’t signed in to my Apple ID when I downloaded the installation files from the App Store. The link I posted above let me get around it. This is legit right?

P.s….Any further input or advice would be appreciated. I’ve never done anything like this before. So if anyone has any instructions or advice on how to use this to install Mac OS, that would be helpful.

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Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support (CA)
You can use a USB flash drive or other secondary volume as a startup disk from which to install the Mac operating system. These steps are primarily for system administrators and other experienced users.