HOW TO CLEAN INSTALL macOS High Sierra - With A BOOTABLE FLASH DRIVE
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Hey guys,
In today’s video I will demonstrate how to install a fresh, clean version of macOS High Sierra on your Mac.
This video will demonstrate how to:
1. Create a backup of your files.
2. Download macOS High Sierra.
3. Download and Install Disk Creator.
4. How to create a bootable USB Flash Drive with macOS High Sierra.
5. How to use the Flash Drive to Install macOS High Sierra on your Mac.
The process isn’t very tough, but it is time consuming. So make sure that you aren’t in a hurry, and won’t need your computer for the day.
Time Stamps:
Introduction - 0:05
Boot Time (Prior to Restore) - 1:17
Creating A Backup - 3:01
Downloading macOS High Sierra Installer - 6:04
Download Disk Creator - 7:00
Creating the Bootable Flash Drive - 7:50
Installing High Sierra onto Your Mac - 10:47
Boot Time (After the Restore) - 15:42
Conclusion - 17:20
COMMENT DOWN BELOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INSTALLATION OR SETUP PROCESS! I'LL BE GLAD TO ANSWER THEM FOR YOU.
I CAN’T STRESS THIS ENOUGH: PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF ALL OF YOUR FILES/DATA.
Once you go through with this process you will not be able to recover them.
The items you’ll need for this install are:
1. A Mac
2. A Flash Drive - 8 GB or larger (USB 3.0 recommended)
3. Disk Creator (Application)
4. macOS High Sierra Installer (Application)
LINKS to THE REQUIRED items:
Disk Creator:
macdaddy.io/install-disk-crea...
Flash Drive:
Sandisk 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive [Amazon US]:
amzn.to/2y2Rlnc
Sandisk 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive [Amazon India]:
amzn.to/2y2giyV
macOS High Sierra Installer:
itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos...
Music in the Video:
Cloud Ten - Fareoh
Passion - Jim Yosef & Alex Skrindo
First Rain - Kontinuum
Iris - Friendzone (feat. The Eden Project)
Ghosts - Malik Bash
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This was perfect!! Very well organized. I did the latest High Sierra update and it totally got stuck and would not finish the update. Unfortunately I didn't have a backup from time machine so had to start fresh. This was the ticket!! Thank you!!!
Glad you found it useful! :)
your video is a lifesaver, loved it and will follow your suggestions in upgrading my mac
I’ve been working on restoring my old MacBook 2010 for 4 days straight and this was the “needle in the haystack” video I needed. Thank you so much!
I'm glad the video was useful! :)
I know how annoying it can be trying to find that one solution and just running into walls constantly, Frustration that can't even be described haha....
THANK YOU! I have been struggling for days with other videos and instructions. Your video was clear, concise, and very helpful!
Thanks for your video and the link for; Disk Creator. I was stuck with a non bootable system drive, I checked out heaps of youtube vids, many of which stated that I had to input several lines of text in terminal, tried a few times and that didn’t work. Your video was the only one that helped! My mac is all up and working now with a fresh install of the os.
Thank you.
Paul
That's awesome!
This is EXACTLY why I made this video! When I had a similar issue I couldn't get the terminal method to work, and I just knew there had to be a better way. Turns out there was, but not many people knew about it, and there weren't any videos about it either!
My first time, watching your video. I am very positively impressed. I have watched many other videos about this subject but this one covers each critical step in detail. Thank you.
You're welcome. I am glad you found it so useful. :)
Thank you brother! I like the step by step simple process you do. I am more on the PC side and I am just learning the MAC interface so this is very helpful. My initial assessment was a corrupted hard drive and this process proved it. Selecting MacintoshHD during installation showed me a S.M.A.R.T error message indicating that I need to back up and replace the disk and that's what I will be doing and then repeat your process. Again, thank you so much!
I'm glad you were able to figure out what was wrong, and fix the situation! :)
Thank mate! Very helpful. I liked your hyper links as well.
Glad you found it useful! Thank you for the support. :)
best & Efficient way to bootable flash Drive with any macOS that was so helpful Thanks Man Keep it up
Glad I was able to help! :)
very very good. i been watching a couple videos and this was one was easy to follow.
Glad I was able to help!
Keep going, man. I hope you still making videos till now! Your video is AWESOME!✌️🤩
Absolutely brilliant, did it first go. Thanks so much
Thanks for the video. After starting the installation when I went to erase the old hard drive the only option I had available was APFS not Mac OS journaled
This was the only video that actually worked - so thank you
Thanks bro your video really helped me out. My Mac has been down for almost a year and now I finally have my baby back up and running thanks to you and your video. Much love brotha! Highly recommended video.
It makes me so happy to hear that you were able to get your computer up and running. I appreciate the love! Have a great day! :)
@@Auto-Technica thanks for this tutorial dude. Was able to follow all the steps up until the booting up my Mac. Hit the option key but the installer doesn't come or, or the drive. Just internet recovery
I’m glad that worked! For most people the internet recovery options works just fine. This method is mostly if you have a spotty internet connection that might cause delays with the restore!
Thank you so much for this video, it was a great help for me, but I have to say, I couldn't make a proper boot usb device using the DMG image, so I had to use Etcher to put an ISO image of High Sierra, and it worked like a charm.
Thanks a lot for everything ❤😊
Thank you so much. I had almost given up with my old Mac. Very clear and helpful video! Subscribed too.
Glad it helped!
Hello,
I had a lot of trouble getting a clean hard drive and clean install, with many many dead ends. Then I did a secure erase with disk utility, the second option with 2 passes, took a couple of hours but by following this excellent tutorial and enlightening comments a working "install thumb drive" was created and installed as a going operating system. (almost never been able to do that before)
The 2010 iMac was my Dads and had what seemed like a bad graphics card, even to the Apple store, I started to muck around a bit and sometimes there was a perfect screen so about 60 restarts etc etc. and three weeks later, within an hour and a half, and in the words of Ace Ventura ... "It's Alive" ... It's Alive"
Thank you all so much.
Phil.
Oh, and a big part of that was that he had to remove it from his iCloud account like almost all apple stuff for obvious security reasons.
Ahh a fellow Ace Ventura fan, I see you are a man of taste! 😁
Haha, but it's great you were able to figure it out. Sometimes it gets so frustrating when nothing works!
Many thanks for an easy to follow tutorial.
You're welcome! Glad I could help. :)
You are the man!! After a week of running in circles I am glad I found your video - Thank You - Problem solved
WORKS PERFECTLY! was able to install High Sierra two hours ago and then update to latest version via App Store. THNAK YOU!
Glad it worked out for you! :)
Auto Technica just to add some details. maybe it helps someone. I bought a second hand 27 inch mid 2011 iMac 3 days ago. tried to reinstall the latest OS via recovery, High Sierra - did not work, it had remote management on it (some German company). Tried to reset it to factory settings and install the OS it came with, Lion - did not work, got the “can’t download the additional components” message. Tried your tutorial, installed High Sierra via USB, still got the remote management window...was a little bit dissapointend, thought it would not work. After some mins got back, clicked everywhere and chosed the option “my mashine does not use internet” or something like this and I was able to continue the installation. Finally I have admin rights on the iMac, checked the profiles, there is no MDM profile on it. Thanks again! Stay safe!!!!
@@shaokat3822 That's great! thank you for sharing your experience! I'm sure someone will find it useful!
Perfect video mate! Thanks!
You're welcome! 😁
@Auto Technica You have done great job. Thanks for sharing your knowledge for sharing... really appreciated.
You’re welcome! Glad I could help!
thank you very much for this helpful tutorial, it's life saving because my colleagues couldn't help except Ardit the best programmer in the office.
Glad I could help!
Oh, and I used a micro SD Card as well instead of a USB drive to help speed things up. Worked perfectly.
Solid Vid man. You're a natural.
Thanks man! :)
Hello! Did everything as described to put El Capitan/ instead High Sierra, which my model will not handle/to my Makbook 13 inch early 2008.
After you done with power on +option and have press to download El Capitan screen show crossed 0 and power of by him self. What's my option to complete this download? Thank you
Thanks very much great video👍
You're welcome! :)
i did eveyrhting but when i put my new ssd in and tried to restore the os it says that the disk is damaged and the application can not run. Any ideas? I tried twice and with two different USB drives. I have an early 2011 macbook pro
Thank you for sharing. A big help!
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You're welcome! Glad you found it useful.
Best ever instructor. Thanks so much. Not too many on here explain as well as you do. Cheers.
I'm so glad I was able to help! This comment really made my day. :)
@@Auto-Technica you don't have a video on going from high sierra to mojave....do you?
tried so many times using a patcher etc. Driving me nuts
@@rhettshipley4593 Yeah, I was frustrated trying to use Terminal. Was ecstatic when I found this simple method!
@@rhettshipley4593 I have a video for Mojave, the steps are the same. Just have to use the Mojave download instead of the High Sierra one.
If I wanted to install high Sierra on an external SSD drive should I do the same process but go into the disk utilities and select the SSD instead of the main MAC drive? I have Sierra on that and don't want to change it.
is this method gonna work, even if the recovery partition is deleted by mistake?
Still works with every OS up to June 2020. Thank you
You're welcome! Glad I could help.
I don't see how. The App Store no longer allows downloading an older OS. You can't even find them via a search. The only way I see is to enter Recovery Mode on the target computer, connect to the App Store during that process and then enter the ORIGINAL OWNER's user name and password to get the ORIGINAL OS that came with the machine. If I enter my own user name and password, which are registered for Mac Minis I bought with Sierra on them, it says "Currently Unavailable" even for Catalina, which is the original OS on the laptop I was donated. There is no OS on the laptop, only a recovery partition and an erased OS partition.
Fantastic video keep it up 👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you! I appreciate it! :)
when I press and hold option on start-up it does not show the menu, but the apple logo then loads the macOS Utilities (dialog). Any other way I could possibly get the Start-up Manager?
thanks alot can you please make one video for how to install windows10 in High sierra
nice and easy ,,, thanks
You're welcome! 😎
hi i got a big big problem, when i was reinstall macos the power goes off, and when i turn the pc on again and reinstall the macos again it begins but after a certain time it stops and a erreur window appear says that the application can't be installed try again, please help me what should i do i'am very scared of losing ma imac i'am waiting your answer!!!!
Your video is amazing and it really worked for me. This is the best video I found on the CZcams!!! Can we use the same steps to instal MacOs Mojave?
I'm glad you found the video helpful! You can use the same steps for MacOS Mojave as well! :)
Thanks man and congratulations to the excellent work!!!!!!
i got the locked disk message figured out and installed a new 480gb ssd and did the clean install. thanks for your reply, i think the locked disk was my high sierra boot drive so i just picked the wrong drive, i am fairly new to the game and really depend on you guys on youtube for help,
albertzappa glad to help! 👍🏻
You’ve SAVED me!!!
thank You so much is work perfect grate video
Glad you found it helpful! :)
Can I do this on a MacBook that didn’t have an OS on it already?
Thank you very much.
Hi,
Thanks for the video.
I’ve macbook pro 2015 with Os High sierra and I want to reinstall by cleaning/resetting using bootable usb. I’ve iwork installed by default. If I get them again when installing new software via usb?
Thanks
Yes, Apple has made the iWork suite a free download for all Macs.
However it won't be available immediately after the install, you can install them from the App Store for free without any issues.
You need to erase disk using GUID partition incase you usb is not detectable in the boot menu. Took me a long time to figure this out.
Can you elaborate on how to do this? Thank you in adv!
Hi there, what do you do when your USBs keep saying 'Error Encountered' when you try to run Disk Creator? It says 'try ejecting the destination disk or rebooting' which I have tried many times. I have tried multiple USBs, all 16GB+ and can't get passed running Disk Creator to erase the USB disk and add High Sierra to it...help please...
Mate, thanks for sharing this, it helps me massively, I have another problem during the reinstallation, a warning pop up says "This disk doesn't use the GUID Partition Table scheme" which holds me up for the reinstallation. In your video, when you erase the hard drive I didn't find any options of this GUID Partition, would you help please?! Thanks in advance! Joe from Sydney Australia.
Hey Joe,
Glad you found this useful. The issue you are having is that when you are erasing your hard drive in Disk Utility (13:46), in the format section your computer probably has GUID Partition or some other type of partition selected. What you need to do is select Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and you shouldn't have this issue any longer.
Let me know if this works!
By default, Disk Utility only displays the volumes. Click on the View icon (first left icon on the icon bar) then select "Show all devices". You'll then be able to see the whole set of containers and partitions. You'll then be able to erase or verify your drives' partition maps.
It works! Thanks. July 25, 2020
I am glad it worked out!
I installed it. just like the 15:00 video, when the time was up it turned off but turned back on
the indicator is not filling at all, even if it is 1 hour, it is not moving, what should I do, please help
When to use APFS over extended journal?
At 12:00 hold option at three sound of chime to install from created install boot. Thank you!
You're welcome!
For some reason I am unable to complete a full reinstall. after I click continue and I accept the terms and conditions it take a few minutes to prepare and what I believe is downloading the install. at this point it reboots and I am still getting stuck on the Apple logo loading screen. It does not get past this screen so i am unable to get to the installation setup steps. I have tried "first Aid" and even erased the drive. nothing seems to work for me. do you have any suggestions?
macOS High Sierra will remove on Apple server. so plz help me what should i do. right now i am using macOs Mojave, but i am not comfortable with them. plz guide properly. thanks.
Saved my life
Thank you. I successfully upgraded 'Mavericks' to 'High Sierra'. Dt 2020.
You're welcome! Glad I could help! :)
I’m having problems getting through the Mac Installer. I formatted my SSD by Mac OS extended journaled and GUID... then when I click download and install High Sierra it prompts me select the SSD Drive, so I did that, then it asks for me to say Agree, then it looks like It will begin installing but doesn’t and jumps back to the previous menu box. Anyone know what’s up? I hope it’s not the SSD cable?
Total life saver!
Glad I could help!
My computer after I reboot does not say high sierra as an option it says efi boot. Is that the same?
When I hold option my USB icon is a yellow external drive, its not the same as your circle high sierra icon.
Thanks👌👍
Hello friend. I try this solution but always show me firmware problem. Any ideas?
Does this work by upgrading from snow leopard?
i followed every steps but when i get to the 12:50 mark the next thing that pops out is a flashing document with a question mark?? any Idea why that happened??
Does this work with all versions of macOS?
Thanks buddy! You helped me. I was only worried about booting process. I contacted #apple tech support and it wasn't booting up with USB and they said it's a hardware issue. Huh. Bad apple support
Apple phone support can be useless sometimes. Glad you were able to figure things out.
Many thanks. Please I try to install Sierra. The image file is in the USB but when I boot from the USB, and the initial screen appears. I don't have access to the mouse and keyboard.
That's weird. I think you'll just have to connect a USB keyboard/mouse if your devices keyboard/trackpad aren't recognized. If you have the apple wireless keyboard, connect it with the lightning charging port to the computer.
Can I have 2 bootable OS versions and have the option of selecting which version i want ?
I think it's theoretically possible but I haven't tried it. You will probably have to create two partitions on your hard drive and then install both using separate installers. It's quite simple if you want Windows and Mac because you can use Bootcamp. However it will be a lot harder if you want anything else.
Cool...thanks
Thanks brother. Did a clean install on a 2008 mini w Lion and the only problem is safari can’t establish a secure connection. Tried everything. Can you help?
Unfortunately I don't think I have any advice on that part, I've never used Lion so I've got no idea what the issue might be.
The selected item does not appear to be a valid macOS Installer.
It is lacking the file "Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" help PLEASE
It may be an issue with the installer you downloaded. Before you try anything else, try to delete the current installer you have and download a new copy from the Mac App Store.
great! thanks
You're welcome!
Is there any way of doing a clean install and preserving the third party softwares you've downloaded and installed? I'd rather not have to spend an entire day doing that again. Hopefully this isn't a paradoxical question
Hi! Do I need internet to install the high sierra update to my system? I use the USB way to install it cause my internet can't download the macos sierra on my macbook and always fails
You will need to download the installer initially, but once that is downloaded and on the USB installer you won’t require an internet connection.
Thank you very much
So if I updated to Mac OS Mojave and it’s bugging out my whole system and I have a high Sierra installer on a usb I delete my current system and install Mac OS but the thing is it says the volume is APFS and I can’t change it to Mac OS X journaled for Mac OS high Sierra
High Sierra uses APFS too.
Urgent! Two options to delete inside Disk Utility
Macintosh HD or Macintosh HD - Data
Which do I delete?
Also only options are APFS volumes
Please and thank you!
Here’s a more updated video it should explain things for Catalina a lot better.
czcams.com/video/TXZ6SwMZw20/video.html
for me it says install a new version of MacOs lion i dont have lion on the usb though
hi plz help me i cant find the 4gb installer i am only getting the 21 mb update
Hey,
You need to go to the Mac App Store and search for High Sierra.
You will get the option to download it from there.
You were probably looking in the update section of the Mac App Store, which is why you only had the 21MB update show up.
My downloaded High Sierra, when installed, opens to the utility disk rather than the OS. Any idea what happened?
Try removing the install disk/USB before booting and see if you have the same issue.
I cant download High Sierra it says "too little storage" Because I have my bootable on a SSD drive from 25GB its full now... and I have a 1TB HDD, but I dont know how to choose where to install High Sierra from the store! Its just try to download it on my SSD, so irritating! Do you know a solution how to do this?
Hi there, thanks for sharing. I have a MBP early 11' with that GPU issue. So I've followed your steps but after some minutes the screen got like stuck... blank screen... I tried many times, some times it got black screen... do you have any idea?
+Luciano Silva Carmo that sounds odd. Have you tried another flash drive?
Auto Technica no actually, what I did now was recovery from time capsule and reinstall OSX Lion :/ looks working so far after this I will upgrade to High Sierra.
+Luciano Silva Carmo yeah that's definitely one way to get it done. Let me know if it works out.
Thankyou
well done
Thank you!
hi all,
when i insert the bootable USB to the Macbook Pro, after pressing the Alt-key and selecting the drive with the OS, it starts loading but than it gets stuck right at the end. Can anyone help ? i really don't know how to sort out this issue
Hi Silvano, I'm having the same problem. Did you manage to fix it? Please help
did all the above and when started up I got the message " you may not install to this volume because the computer is missing a firmware partition" ( my HD is defect, I plugged in a SSD external )
This is a known issue when trying with external drives, have you maybe tried Mojave or Catalina to see if they work instead of High Sierra?
Bro i need wifi driver nd some more drivers tht it need on high Sierra wifi not working
What are you installing on? All the drivers come preloaded.
Do you have a SSD.
what musics do you use in your clip ?
Here is the list in the order they were played in the video:
Cloud Ten - Fareoh
Passion - Jim Yosef & Alex Skrindo
First Rain - Kontinuum
Iris - Friendzone (feat. The Eden Project)
Ghosts - Malik Bash
macOS High Sierra is not available for download anymore. I'm currently on macOS High Sierra, where else could I download macOS High Sierra? Or should I upgrade to Mojave before I do a clean install? Will you instruction work for MOjave? Thanks
The same instructions will work for Mojave, but I did make an updated video if you'd prefer to follow that. Here's the link to that video: czcams.com/video/TXZ6SwMZw20/video.html
did you by chance get a screen with an apple logo with a loading bar at the very end, yours looks white but mine is grey or black. how long did this process take. please let me know. thank you
You will get an Apple Logo with the loading bar multiple times throughout the process, that is normal.
The process can take anywhere from 20 minutes unto a few hours in my experience. There are a few factors that effect the speed of this install, which include:
- Hard Drive: If you don't have an SSD/Flash Drive, it will take a while for the install to be written onto your drive. Even with an SSD it can take up to an hour or more.
- Flash Drive: If you have an older flash drive/computer that doesn't support USB 3.0 transfers the rate of transfer of information will be slower, which again means the process will take longer.
So don't worry too much about the process taking some time, as long as you can see that the progress bar is moving at least a little bit every couple of minutes, you should just sit back and let it do its thing.
Auto Technica mine wasn't moving at all, left it all night nothing, i can install El Capitan but sierra and high sierra won't install. Even apple genius couldn't figure out why it won't install. So they told me to purchase a new one or replace the motherboard for 800 😱 haha. Guess it's time to upgrade.
OUCH! That is an expensive repair. A new one definitely makes a lot more sense! :)
/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app does not appear to be a valid OS installer application.
this is my feed back when I went to terminal
+Sadat Mohammed why were you using terminal? You don’t have to use terminal to make your flash drive. Just use the application I used in this video. It’ll save you a lot of time and headache.
Can this work on my mac pro mid 2009?
Theoretically yes, but do check if you MacBook supports High Sierra before you try this. Just find out which is the highest version your computer can support and install that. The process will remain the same regardless of which version of macOS you use.
Hey bro, urgent, when I try to erase my Macintosh HD, the format only shows 4 different APFS, why ? How to solve it ?
Because u have SSD drive installed inside
support.apple.com/en-us/HT208033
Бехзод Мирзоев Which one is the recommended to use?
I got the error "an error occurred while verifying firmware"
Will this work for a completely blank unformatted ssd. Hdd died In macbook pro. Just followed your directions on a family members mac can I use this installer once i replace to an ssd but as I said it will be a blank drive unformatted thanks
Yeah this process works just fine on a blank SSD. Just make sure to create a partition like I showed in the video with the APFS file format (that's the new format now for the newer versions). I have an updated video for if you want to check that out too: czcams.com/video/TXZ6SwMZw20/video.html
@@Auto-Technica awesome thank you brother stay safe
@@jestonhopper5137 You're welcome! Same to you. :)
thanks lol, i found this helping for me cuz i wanted to install a good mac os, but high sierra is the best i could find, thanks again.
You're welcome! Glad I could help.
If I don't backup , will it restore the default apps ?
Yes! All default apps will be restored.
Thanks mate !
THX I REALLY NEEDED THIS MY MAC GOT A VIRUS AND I CANT BOOT THE ORIGINAL MAC OS OR FIX IT!
Glad I could help! 😎
I'm not able to download Mac OS high Sierra from my apple store😢