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In this article, I will show you How to Create a Bootable USB for macOS Mojave on Windows PC. Therefore, you have to know the complete information and guide of installation on VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. Furthermore, you also know and have information about the Mac operating system, that Mac or Apple company is releasing day by day new updates and features for there users, one of the good news is here that you can easily test or install the macOS Mojave beta on VirtualBox and VMware, However, if you want to test that I have provided or created the article, for you in below I will give you the link you can see there.
Create a Bootable USB for macOS Mojave on Windows
To create a bootable macOS Mojave USB installer on Windows, you need some requirements to ready that on your computer. Download macOS Mojave the latest version and Extract the compressed macOS Mojave with WinRaR. After that, you are done with extracting now download TransMac and install that on your PC, then get ready for the preparation of creating macOS Mojave bootable USB on Windows operating system.
Create a Bootable USB for macOS Mojave on Windows
Bootable Hackintosh Usb Windows
TransMac is Acute system in Windows operating system that can copy and paste and manage the files on Windows for Apple or Mac Systems, Including Mac-formatted USB drives, SSD drive, Hard drives, and any kind of storage devices, further, it can burn VMDK and dmg files of macOS Mojave, macOS High Sierra, macOS X El Capitan, macOS Sierra, macOS Yosemite, and any other operating system of macOS, there is bad news that TransMac is not free whether you should too by this or use for 15 days Trail.
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Install TransMac on Windows PC
While you are downloaded the complete file of TransMac and macOS Mojave on a computer. Now in here, you need the simple process and ways of installation that everyone can install that easily on there Windows PC.
- Run the TransMac setup by double-clicking on setup.
- On the welcome screen click Next.
- Read carefully the agreement on the license and agreement and click Next.
- Select the location for Transmac where you want to install it.
- On the next TransMac will ask from you to create a shortcuts icon on the start menu and screen.
- The next screen doesn’t do anything click Next.
- Therefore, you are ready to install TransMac on your computer, for just click on the Install button and wait for some minutes to complete the installation.
- After that, that installation is completed click Finish.
Now start Creating a Bootable USB for macOS Mojave on Windows
After that, you are successfully installed TransMac and downloaded macOS Mojave dmg file now you need to create USB bootable for macOS Mojave, Therefore, you need to get at least 16 up to 32 GB flash drive and attach the USB drive to the computer and follow the steps which I am going to show you in this article.
Step #1. Now you are completely ready to create bootable USB for macOS Mojave. At the very beginning step you need to open TransMac, therefore Right-click on TransMac and select Run As Administrator.
Run As Administrator
Step #2. After that, TransMac is opened you will see the list of drives then select the drive which you are going to make bootable for macOS Mojave, and Right-click on that then select Restore with Disk Image.
Step #3. After that, you have selected Restore with Disk Image, therefor you will face pop up warning from containing mounted volumes. However, to continue the process simply click on yes to go on a further step.
Hackintosh Bootable Usb Catalina
Warning of selected Volume for macOS Mojave
Step #5. In this step, you need to browse for macOS Mojave dmg file, just click on three dots and select a macOS Mojave dmg file.
Browse macOS Mojave dmg file
Step #6. In this step, you will face another warning pop up. So, it is simple to click on Yes and moves to the next step.
Step #7. In this step, you should wait for some minutes to format your drive and wait, it will automatically copy the macOS Mojave dmg file to the USB drive.
Formatting Drive for macOS Mojave
Conclusion
That’s all about How to Create a Bootable USB for macOS Mojave on Windows PC. However, you can create bootable USB for macOS Mojave using TransMac and TransMac is a very light software for Windows PC. Furthermore, if you faced any kind of problem in this article you can comment in below comment box, and don’t forget to subscribe to our website for the latest posts.
In addition to macOS, Apple has released macOS high sierra. macOS High Sierra is the successor of macOS sierra. With it’s every release apple updates macOS with new features, new design, better security, more stability and better performance. As you know any of the macOS cannot be officially installed on any non-apple hardware, because of this reason installing macOS on PC was never an easy job. In this article, I will show how to create a bootable USB of macOS high sierra on windows 10.
Bootable Hackintosh Usb
Step 1. Downloading the required files.
Download the macOS high sierra DMG file from this link.
Download Transmac from their official website or you can download it directly from here.
In this tutorial, I am going to use the Transmac software to create the bootable USB drive from windows. Transmac is a paid software, however, it offers 15 days of trial which is enough for you to create the bootable USB.
Step 2. Installing Transmac.
After downloading the setup.exe double-click it to open and follow the procedure displayed in the setup to install.
See also: Beginner’s guide to patching DSDT in Hackintosh.
Step 3. Making the bootable USB drive.
In order to make bootable USB of macOS high Sierra, you will need an 8gb or higher USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 drive.
Note: By using USB 3.0 you might face some issues while booting into the installer, in that case, please try using USB 2.0 drive.
1. Insert the USB drive into your computer and then right click on the transmac app and select “run as administrator”. Running as administrator is required as we will format the USB drive through the transmac app.
2. Now right click on the USB drive you inserted and click “Format for mac”.
Note: This action will format the drive and the data inside the drive will be lost, so before formatting the USB drive, please make sure that the drive you selected is your removable USB drive, not any other drive and also make sure that you backup all the data to a separate drive.
3. After the formatting is done again right click the USB drive and click “Restore with Disk Image”. Click “yes” on the warning about erasing data, then click on the select file button and select the macOS high sierra dmg file that you have downloaded earlier and click OK.
4. Now it’s time to sit back and relax as the process will take time to complete. After the progress bar is finished, your bootable USB of macOS high sierra is ready.
Note: After the USB drive is formatted as mac or the dmg is restored successfully windows will give you an alert to format the drive due to incompatible file-system, but don’t click format otherwise you have to start over again.
See also: How to dual boot MacOS sierra and windows 10 in Hackintosh.
Step 4. Configuring Clover Bootloader.
Clover Bootloader is the key to install macOS on PC. It fakes the macOS installer to think that it is going to install on a real Macintosh. Clover is already included in the above high sierra DMG file and is restored into the USB. However, we need to configure it according to our system’s configuration or importantly graphics configuration.
- First download clover configuration plist files from here as zip.
- Then navigate to EFI/efi/clover/
- Now delete the file named config.plist
- Extract the configuration files zip and select the file which contains your internal graphics card name. i.e: config_HD615_620_630_640_650.plist for Intel HD 630. Then copy it into EFI/efi/clover and rename it as config.plist
Note: The EFI drive is present in the USB drive. So it must be plugged in.
Now the configuration is done and you can proceed towards installation steps.
Step 5. Installing macOS high sierra.
Before we try to boot the macOS installer we need to make some changes to our BIOS settings. Just to spoof the macOS installer so it thinks that we are booting the installer from a real mac, else we will face a disabled boot screen or a message saying “macOS cannot be installed on this device”.
1. Reboot your PC and just after you see the manufacturer logo quickly press the “F2” button or press it several times until you see the BIOS menu. To boot into the BIOS settings menu.
2. Change the following settings:-
- SATA mode: AHCI
- CMS support: Enabled
- Secure Boot: Disabled
- Virtualization: Disabled (optional, I haven’t faced any issues keeping it enabled till now but might cause one in some hardware).
- DVMT Pre-allocated: 64 MB or Highest.
DVMT Pre-allocated option is to set the internal GPU memory. Most laptops come with 32mb fixed allocated memory, it causes an error while booting into macOS sierra or Higher versions on Intel skylake or higher architecture CPUs. It is not a common option and might not be available in your BIOS settings. Setting it to 64mb or higher eliminates the need of applying miniStolen patch.
3. Now after changing the BIOS options, plug in the bootable USB drive and power on the machine.
4. Now again boot into BIOS by tapping “F2”, and open the “boot menu” and select your bootable USB drive from the “Boot drive” menu.
5. If you selected the correct drive in the above step, you should see the clover boot menu. In the clover boot menu select the “Install macOS high sierra” drive and tap “Spacebar” and check “verbose” option and click “Boot with selected option”. Booting verbose will allow you to see if any error occurs while booting.
6. After successfully booting into the installer, select your preferred language and click next and then from the macOS utilities screen select “Disk Utility” and click continue.
7. Here, select the partition in which you want to install macOS. As the partition will be formatted, make sure it is empty. And also make sure the size of the partition is at least 15GB, I prefer to make the partition of size 40Gb or higher so I don’t have to resize it later. Now click on erase and then name the partition as you like, then from the “Format” drop-down menu select “APFS” and click erase.
8. After formatting the partition, close the disk utility app and select “Install macOS” and click continue. Here you will be asked in which partition you want to install macOS High Sierra, select the partition you formatted in the above step and finally click on install.
Happy Hackintoshing 😉 if you get any trouble please feel free to post them in comments.