Comments on: Install OS X Snow Leopard from a USB flash drive

By: chang

chang — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:14:26 +0000

I made it with bootcamp. It tooks 43 min // same process/ // thanks for tut!!

By: chang

chang — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:48:25 +0000

It dosn’t work in my machine that is macbook with 4g ram and 500gb hard(upglade myself) os s 10.5.8
I used a image file not a dvd and followed your instruction until ‘5′ it tooks about 7hours more making a snow usb stick.
and at ‘6′ i selected my usb volume and than it didn’t appear instruction for installation. just white screen with prohibition sign.
How do I solve my problem?

By: de

de — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:03:55 +0000

can you format the computer using this method?

By: amar

amar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:26:27 +0000

Thanks a lot !

By: KZevchik

KZevchik — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:26:59 +0000

Hello, I am having the same issue as Juan, when I try to drag the OS X Install DVD from the left to ‘Source’ it does nothing. I am using a MAC OS X V10.6 RETAIL version DVD item MC223Z/A. I am able to take my newly formatted and partitioned USB drive and drag it into the ‘Destination’ area. Any ideas?

By: Lajos Doma

Lajos Doma — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:14:57 +0000

Thank you for this nice article! Worked like a charm. I have referred to your article from my blog-entry about dual booting Ubuntu/OSX without RefIT Cheers! Lajos

By: gilemon

gilemon — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:21:48 +0000

Thanks for this tut.

23mn on a MacBook 1st generation, with a SEAGATE Momentus 7200.4 – 500 GB – 16 Mo

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:08:58 +0000

I wanted to try this method b/c the optical drive (in my white MacBook, bought in the summer of 2008) won’t read the Snow Leopard disk. (The first time, I thought the problem was with the disk, but the second time it happened with a different disk, it seemed like it must be my computer.) Everything works fine til I try to restore Snow Leopard on the flash drive, and I get the message “Restore Failure: Input/Output Error.” Any advice?

By: mac2333

mac2333 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:17:54 +0000

39 min

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:03:49 +0000

Dude, honestly, thanks so much.
My MBP’s optical drive is messed up so I couldn’t use it to install Snow Leopard, which I got for my birthday from a fellow mac-buddy. So, Instead of waiting until tomorrow morning to receive a phone call from Apple support, I thought I would just google how to install snow leopard on my MBP using a flash drive.

So far, so good. Nice and simple, clear steps and it’s going smoothly. The estimated “restoration” time started out at 2 hours but it’s dropping. (BTW if you’re wondering, I’m using another friend’s mac to do all this.)

Anyway, before I get carried away, I just want to say thank you.

Travis