You should be able to see it in your terminal window.ī. Select and drag the drive over and into your terminal window.Ĭ. Once you have mounted your flash drive you should see it under Volumes.ī. This is when you are going to plug in your USB Flash Drive.Ĭ. Your Volumes folder will have all of your currently mounted volumes.ī. In the Go to Folder box, type “/volumes”Ī. You want to type dash dash volume space.Į. In your terminal window type “ –volume “Ī. Drag your CreateInstallMedia into your terminal windowĭ. You want to write sudo and then a space.Ĭ. Type this into the terminal window : “sudo “ī. Select New Tab, to open up a new Finder Tab.Ī. Locate “Create Install Media”, do not select – just find it.Ĭ. Right Click on the Installer Application, “Install Mojave” In the top menu bar select “Install MacOS Mojave”Ĭ. Once Mac OS Mojave has downloaded, go ahead and click out of the window.Ī. Download Mac OS Mojave from Apple’s App Store.ī. If you are unsure whether or not your USB Flash Drive is formatted then STOP right now, click here, and double check. I chose a 16GB USB flash Drive, and was compatible Mac OS 8.6 and newer. Also make sure it is compatible with your computer’s Mac OS. This step is crucial, BEFORE any type of hard drive install.īefore beginning this process, you will need aĪ 2.0 or newer USB Flash Drive with at least 8GB of storage space. I would have a new hard drive, but no way to use it. If I were to install my SSD without installing a Mac Operating System, I would have no way to set up my computer at all. The first steps in making sure I had Mac OS Mojave available to download to my new Hard Drive was downloading it to an external drive. I knew that after the SSD installation, I wanted to try out Mac OS Mojave. My MacBook Pro was running Mac OS Sierra before installing my new hard drive.

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