Tried everything I could see online but bootable usb not showing on startup disc

Not sure if the system report below will help but I have been trying to create a bootable USB, checked it's set up as GUID Partition Table and extended journaled HFS+ and have set to medium security with external devices allowed on utility settings for booting. Out of ideas! can anyone think of anything else?


UDisk      :


 Product ID: 0x1234

 Vendor ID: 0x048d (Integrated Technology Express, Inc.)

 Version: 1.00

 Serial Number: Љ

 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/s

 Manufacturer: General 

 Location ID: 0x14200000 / 1

 Current Available (mA): 500

 Current Required (mA): 100

 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

 Media:

UDisk:

 Capacity: 31.46 GB (31,457,280,000 bytes)

 Removable Media: Yes

 BSD Name: disk2

 Logical Unit: 0

 Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)

 SMART status: Verified

 USB Interface: 0

 Volumes:

EFI:

 Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)

 File System: MS-DOS FAT32

 BSD Name: disk2s1

 Content: EFI

 Volume UUID: 0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B

Install macOS Catalina:

 Capacity: 31.11 GB (31,113,306,112 bytes)

 Free: 22.71 GB (22,712,426,496 bytes)

 Writable: Yes

 File System: Journaled HFS+

 BSD Name: disk2s2

 Mount Point: /Volumes/Install macOS Catalina

 Content: Apple_HFS

 Volume UUID: 7B0F66EB-E635-3890-8137-3DEAFDEDED45

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Feb 15, 2021 2:24 PM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2021 5:34 PM

Macs can be very picky about the USB sticks used for booting plus the quality of USB sticks are extremely poor. Try using another USB stick especially another brand.


How did you create the bootable macOS Catalina drive? Here are the official Apple instructions that are known to work:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

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