How do i create a usb boot drive for OS X Lion 10.7.5

How do I create a bootable USB drive on a working iMac with OS X Lion 10.7.5? I'm fairly new to the MAC world...

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If you want to create a bootable USB drive with the Mountain Lion installer, follow these steps:
1. Open App Store > Purchases, and download OS X Lion.
2. After downloading Lion, close the Lion installer and use Lion Diskmaker to create a bootable Mountain Lion flash drive > http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/
When you want to start from this OS X Mountain Lion USB drive, press Option key while your Mac is starting and select the USB drive

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Enyone know how to get USB stick back to normal after creating a USB boot disk for Mavericks? https://discussions.apple.com/message/23527458#23527458

You should just be able to erase it using Disk Utiilty. I did with my 8Gb.
If not I have a USB deep format tool, but it only works with Windows: http://tinyurl.com/mwor6s9
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Can I create an external boot drive for an updated Mac OS Maverick system?

I'm currently running Mac OS Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on my 24" iMac and would like to clone my current drive to an external drive & then update that external drive to Mac OS Maverick. First, can this be done to create an external Boot drive for my iMac System? Secondly, can I then select the internal system (OS 10.6.8) or the external drive Maverick OS system at boot time?

Probably will depend on just what your machine is - i.e. how current and fast is the internal hardware.
Generally though, the performance booting off a firewire 800 should be fine for most things with little if any system lag. My late-2008 MBP ( 2.53Ghz core-2 duo, 8GB RAM) runs quite well when booted from a firewire 800 drive (7200rpm - even my 5400rpm portable clone is perfectly useable).
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I have a Mac Pro 1,1 using Lion:
I would like to create a new and bigger boot drive but having not done this before I would appreciate any direction that would make this as painless as possible. I will continue to use Lion but am a little lost when it comes to doing this with the download process of Lion as well as transferring what has been created on the current HD in the MacPro. I have a new WD Black 2 TB SATA that I would like to use as the new boot drive. Again, thank you for the help.

Don't. Use. 2TB for system. Seriously.
Use that for data.
Get yourself a $89 Samsung 840 120GB instead along with Icy Dock $15. You will. Love it.
You don't need a large drive for the system. All you need to do is MOVE all the data and media files and every thing else, just leave the small 4GB /Users/myuseraccount/Library on the boot drive with the OS and apps. Everything else gets off loaded.
Leave your drive you ahve now as is for backup. Move data and clone the system.
Clone your system:
How to Clone a Volume
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
See also Erasing a Drive, How and Why to Partition a Drive, RAID.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-partition-your-hard-drive-on-mac-os -x-snow-.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DU.html
How to relocate system and user data to another drive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4337http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/To successfully relocate your operating system, user accounts and data from one storage device to another, meet the following conditions:
The destination storage device (SSD drive or hard drive) you are migrating to should be physically located in the same computer. Moving operating system files from one computer to another computer using software not specifically designed for that computer can cause issues due to software, hardware, and firmware version mismatches.
Always back up your storage device with Time Machine or Disk Utility before you start.
Icy Dock $15
http://www.amazon.com/2-5-3-5-Ssd-sata-Convert/dp/B002Z2QDNE/
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 128GB
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7TE120BW/dp/B00E3 W15P0/
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I have installed Labview 8.2 and the "update 8.2.1" for Labview RT Standard version from the web.
I am trying to create a bootable image for a target Laptop PC, using a USB jump drive.
When I run NI-MAX and select TOOLS->RT Disk Utilities->Create Desktop PC Utility USB Drive, a popup dialog appears that says:
"This utility will reformat a USB drive with a Labview Real-Time boot USB utility for use with a USB boot-capable Desktop PC. Make sure the USB drive is connected to your computer before you continue.
Do you want to use this utility?"
Clicking on Yes, shows a dialog selection window, with a single entry ="Version 8.2", and an OK and Cancel button.
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Hello,
Does your jump drive conform to the USB Mass Storage Device Class? What drive letter are you using? Did you create it by running the command line utility "subst"?
Have you tried doing this on a different computer? Are the USB ports 1.1 or 2.0?
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/D3AD6D3474D09C5E86256E130079C1B0?OpenDocument
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Clint M
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Hello; This is first time I will use SSD on my macpro. I ordered the SSD from amazon and it will come next week I hope. I need some help and advice. My boot drive is HDD (Macintosh HD) now. So, I Want to move from the HDD to SSD. What's the easiest and guarentee way to do it? I am not a good technician. I've read about carbon copy cleaner or disk utility to back-up everything to another drive, boot from there then select the SSD. Is this needed? Cant I just directly copy my application and operation System to SSD? How about using the installation disc and directly install to the SSD? I am confused. What do you suggest? Please help
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Hi, There are any number of different ways to move the data from one drive to another. My preference (the last one) would be to do a clean fresh install using system disks because of the way SSD drive's lay down data.
I'm not going to go into detail laying out HOW you do this. I assume you can do a Google (or other) engine search for details.
1) SystemMigration - this is a built in MAC OS X utility that allows you to move system + data from one drive to another
2) Do a Time Machine backup of everything and then use TM to restore everything the way it is or REINSTALL a clean install of the data+new system on the replacement drive.
3) Carbon copy Cloner is a great cloning application and can "block clone" from a smaller drive to a replacement drive of the same or larger size
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the faster boot up time and disk responsiveness you would expect from an SSD. I can't say why; it may have to do with the way data is initially "laid down" on the SSD OR all the extra "jetsam and flotsam" that accompanies a used system drive - "(how's THAT for non techno-geek detail).
I have noticed that Drive clones are only as good as the source from which they are taken and that when I cloned a magnetic Lion 10.6 Drive to an SSD, there was no significant advantage in boot times with a 10.6 Lion boot taking anywhere from 45 to 60 to 75 seconds (pretty much he same for magnetic drives).
I then did an original clean system install on the SSD as if I were doing it for the first time....updated it completely and THEN and only then did I reinstall all the apps individually followed by cloining the data files.
By doing this, I was able to cut the boot time on that SSD (and all subsequent ssd clones of the original SDD) to 25 to 30 seconds.
NOT BAD. Just simply cloning what you already have is a simple option, but if you're looking for optimal SSD performance, I'd opt for a fresh clean instll of everything.

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My iMac (late 2012) running OSX Mavericks is encountering problems creating a Windows 8.1 install disk via a USB thumbdrive. The drive has 8gb of space available, which is enough to fit windows. But when I choose my ISO image and select the drive I recieve an error message. The error is 'Bootcamp only supports 64-bit Windows installation on this platform. Please use a ISO file for 64-bit Windows installation.
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Can you try what I typed above? If it doesn't work, can you let me know at what step things go differently than described?
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Edit2:
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Best of luck to you!

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Selling Mac OS X USB Boot Drives

Hi everyone,
I know that a lot of people want/need USB Boot drives as a backup for their OS X (Yes, I know about Recovery HD, but some people want it for ease of installing without internet etc…) and I wanted to sell them. My question; is this legal? I know that the EULA of 10.8 says it can be installed on computers you own or have control of, so do I need to buy a copy for each drive I sell, and if so how?
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My question; is this legal?
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https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
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Compulab Windows CE NAND X-Loader for CM-T35
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46:16
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Hit space to enter configuration menu 4...
Hit space to enter configuration menu 3...
Hit space to enter configuration menu 2...
Hit space to enter configuration menu 1...
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DLL First           : 0x4001c001
DLL Last            : 0x41c7c0d8
Physical First      : 0x84001000
Physical Last       : 0x863bbdec
Num Modules         :        294
RAM Start           : 0x863c0000
RAM Free            : 0x863d5000
RAM End             : 0x90800000
Num Copy Entries
Copy Entries Offset : 0x85256e38
Prof Symbol Length : 0x00000000
Prof Symbol Offset : 0x00000000
Num Files           :        116
Kernel Flags        : 0x00000002
FileSys RAM Percent : 0x00000020
Driver Glob Start   : 0x00000000
Driver Glob Length : 0x00000000
CPU                 :     0x01c2
MiscFlags           :     0x0002
Extensions          : 0x84002020
Tracking Mem Start : 0x00000000
Tracking Mem Length : 0x00000000
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Row 0: 0x18    0x9     0x25    0x0     0x0     0x0
Row 1: 0x26    0xd     0x28    0x0     0x0     0x0
Row 2: 0x27    0x24    0x23    0x0     0x0     0x0
Row 3: 0x0     0x0     0x0     0x0     0x0     0x0
Row 4: 0x0     0x0     0x0     0x0     0x0
Row 5: 0x0     0x0     0x0     0x0     0x0     0x0
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        HSW = 0x20
        HFP = 0x8
        HBP = 0x17
        VSW = 0x1
        VFP = 0x4
        VBP = 0x3
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        LogClkDiv = 0x1
        ClkSelDSS = 0x5
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CameraDShowApp: Selecting the camera device failed.CameraDShowApp: Selecting the
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Sure it can be UnDone in the same way it was done. By Copying the iPhoto library back to the original location or any other location on your internal drive and then Repointing iPhoto to use that Library as you did when you moved it to the external.
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Also at any point in time, even with the external connected, iPhoto will lose that association to the external Library and create another in the original Default location. Which will look like all your images are missing.
colleen747 wrote:
Thank you for responding. I understand. After reading quite a bit about this procedure, can it be undone? So many out there have stated that everything slows way down and the thumbnails are blurry. What is your opinion?
Do I first create a New File on the EHD and name it "iPhoto Library"? Then paste?
Most pictures are in folders on my EHD, how do I move them to the new library?
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