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    PowerPC G4 - Fried Tiger OS on HD - trying to boot in DVD or USB - install Sorbet!

    I posted on Reddit and Apple Forums - now I'm coming here. Here is what I posted. If you guys can help me find a bootable DVD/USB or anything else to repair my PB OS - and eventually get Sorbet installed it would be appreciated. So I created an issue. I had a Powerbook G4 lying around and I...
  2. Joeronzk

    Clone a bootable USB drive with multiple partitions

    I have a portable SSD with 5 bootable macOS partitions. I need to share this USB drive to a couple of my friends and don't want to do this manually with createinstallmedia command? I am looking for a disk clone app that clone all the partitions and keep the USB bootable.
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    Reinstalling High Sierra on 2009 iMac

    I have a 2009 iMac which was in my son's possession. Somehow the OS was wiped clean. I'm trying to reinstall High Sierra and have created a bootable disk on a flash drive. When it comes time to select the drive for installation, the only choice given is the flash drive disk...which says "this...
  4. Joeronzk

    [App Giveaway] Create Windows 11 & 10 Bootable USB on Apple Silicon Mac

    Two Known Facts: Creating Windows bootable USB feature removed from Big Sur and later version. Boot Camp Assistant no longer available on Apple Silicon Mac. So if you want to create a Windows bootable USB on M1 Mac, you can either use Terminal or third-party app to finish the job. Actually...
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    Create Windows 11 Bootable USB without Bootcamp?

    My kid's laptop was infected with virus and suddenly unable to get into the desktop. It keeps saying password incorrect. I can confirm the password is right as well as the input. So I decide to install latest Windows 11 on it and I already got the Windows 11 ISO on my Mac. However, when I plug...
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    Windows on External Drive

    So I recently upgraded the HDD in my Windows laptop to an SSD and now I have a spare HDD (in an external enclosure) with Windows 10 installed but lets cut to the chase. Basically I want to boot up Windows on an external drive when I tried it boot up on all I got with the Windows splash screen...
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    MacBook air 2013 does not recognise the new nvme ssd

    Hi there, I recently bought a 512Gb NVMe M.2 ssd from verbatim as it was really cheap and I also bought the adapter on eBay so that it'd fit in my macbook (the adapter is from sintech) but after installing it, the ssd doesn't show up in disk utility or ubuntu terminal, I tried so many different...
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    el capitain boot usb

    i want to clean install my macbook pro currently running Yosemite. It's el captain compatible. my main question is how do i download and save the el captain file from the app store? I see it in the app store and when i press "get" it prompts user password. I haven't done it yet because i...