not general browsing) and other Mac utilities from the Snow Leopard USB drive.īoot the Mac to the USB drive using the steps shown above and click on the Utilities button from the top bar. Disk Utilities on the Snow Leopard USB DriveĪdditionally, you can access Disk Utility, Terminal, Safari (to access Apple help articles. Upon completion, the Mac will restart and prompt you to create an account.
OS X Snow Leopard may take a bit of time to install depending on the Mac's hardware.
Please note that all data on the Mac's hard drive will be erased, so backup all important files before proceeding.
Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format drop-down menu.Formatting the Mac's hard drive using Disk Utility. To do this, look towards the top of the screen and click on Utilities from the top menu and then click Disk Utility from the drop-down menu. To install OS X Snow Leopard from the USB drive, you'll need to reformat the Mac's hard drive. Select the language you'd like to use when prompted.Select the OS X Install DVD from the boot menu using the arrow keys on the Mac's keyboard.Power down the Mac and reboot while holding the Option key.Now that you've created a Snow Leopard USB drive, let's use it to install OS X Snow Leopard as well as access Terminal, Disk Utility, and other OS X utilities. At the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and click the Restore buttonĭisk Utility will restore the OS X Install DVD or disk image to the USB drive this process may take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour depending on how quick the Mac is.
Locate the USB drive on the left-hand side of the window and click on its name, not its partition.
To do this, you can either search for the application in Spotlight or find it in the Applications folder. Start by launching Disk Utility on the Mac. Grey DVDs that were included with a Mac at the time of purchase cannot be used to make USB boot drives as they do not include drivers for Macs other than the computer it was shipped with.Ĭreating a Snow Leopard USB Boot Drive Using Disk Utility Note: Before starting this tutorial, ensure that you have a USB drive with at least 8GB of storage as well as a Snow Leopard retail DVD or disk image.
However, there is no automatic way to create this drive on your Mac, so I'll show you how to do so in this tutorial. Additionally, some older Macs stopped receiving updates after Snow Leopard, forcing IT departments to continue support.īecause of this, it's important to keep a bootable Snow Leopard install disk around if you have a Snow Leopard machine or manage them. Even though OS X Snow Leopard has been around for quite a few years, it remains a favorite for some Mac users with legacy software support.