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Hi
I just got a Macbook Pro Mid 2012, from a friend. There was't any MacOS installed on it.
I made an bootable USB Stick with 10.13.6. I tried 2 ways. The first one was made with Diskmaker. It didn't work. The second was made Disk utilities and It didn't work either.
I am running Mojave on an other Mac. I made the to sticks on this one.
Can anyone help me.
Best Mactek
If you used an up-to-date version of DiskMaker, and used with the full 5GB plus "macOS installer", that USB-stick should be bootable.
Double-clicking its installer just gives you an error. The only way you can use it is to boot from it.
In what way didn't it work? Did it boot, but was unable to complete the install? Or couldn't the USB drive boot?
If the drive would not boot, then try using another brand of USB stick since Macs can be very picky about the USB boot drive and the quality of USB sticks is very poor.
If the installer booted, then at what stage did it stop working? Any specific error messages?
Yours is the first report I have seen of this particular problem, although there have been some forebodings that it was coming in the trade press.
How did you decide that the Installer image was too old? Did you get an error message? If so, what error message?
Hi again.
The problem is fixed. The macOS installer was to old, I got a newer one from Mac App Store.
I used Install Disk Creator. It made a bootable usb stick drive.
Reboot holding the option key— this gets you to the Startup Manager, select your bootable device here to install.
Can't install from boot usb stick
