May 26, 2014 - Have you ever wanted a hard disk or a flash drive that you can use on both your Mac and your PC? With OS X, you can create one in less than. The latest trend with computers is not including a CD/DVD drive. Article will teach you how to format the USB flash drive so both Mac's and PC's can read them.
How to make a PCUnlocker bootable USB drive on a Mac computer? There might be an instance where the only machine you have available is a Mac. In this tutorial we'll show you how to create a bootable USB flash drive with PCUnlocker from a Mac OS X. It's easier than you think, thanks to the freeware - UNetbootin USB installer. How to Create a PCUnlocker Bootable USB Drive from Mac. Download the full version of PCUnlocker via the link included in your order confirmation email. The downloaded file is a self-extracting.zip archive.
Right-click on the ZIP file that you've downloaded on your Mac, select Open With from the pop-up menu and then click Archive Utility. Archive Utility will appear on your screen and show the progress of the extraction. Once extracted, the unzipped files will be stored in a folder that has the same name as the zip file. Insert a USB flash drive (at least 1GB of disk space) into the USB port of your Mac computer. Make sure you have backed up all important files on your USB drive before continuing. Next you have to download and install on your Mac.
After installing, launch UNetbootin and allow the osascript to make changes. Select the Diskimage radio button and then click the '.’ button. Browse to the PCUnlocker ISO file that you've extracted from ZIP archive, and then click Open. Verify that Type shows USB Drive and the Drive is set to your target USB drive, then click OK.
If your USB flash drive is not detected, try to format it using the built-in Disk Utility. Select your USB drive in the sidebar, go to the Erase tab and select MS-DOS (FAT) as the format, then click Erase. Once the UNetbootin installer has completed, click Exit. You can then unplug the USB drive and take it to boot off your Windows PC to reset forgotten password. What If I Don't Have a USB Drive? Creating a PCUnlocker bootable CD on a Mac computer is much easier. Just right-click on the PCUnlocker ISO file you downloaded, and then select Burn to Disc from the popup-list.
This will open up the Disk Utility app. Insert a blank CD into the drive, then click on the Burn button.
The image files will start writing on the disc and soon you will have a PCUnlocker live CD.
You can erase a disk (or a volume on that disk) at any time, including in circumstances such as these:. You want to quickly and permanently erase all content from your Mac and restore it to factory settings, such as when you're.
You're changing the format of a disk, such as from a PC format (FAT, ExFAT, or NTFS) to a Mac format (APFS or Mac OS Extended). You received a message that your disk isn't readable by this computer.
You're trying to resolve a disk issue that Disk Utility can't. The macOS installer doesn't see your disk or can't install on it. For example, the installer might say that your disk isn't formatted correctly, isn't using a GUID partition scheme, contains a newer version of the operating system, or can't be used to start up your computer. The macOS installer says that you may not install to this volume because it is part of an Apple. Your Mac includes Disk Utility, an app that can erase disks, add volumes, check disks for errors, and more.
Erasing a disk or volume permanently deletes all of its files. Before continuing, make sure that you have a of any files that you want to keep. If you're erasing the disk your Mac started up from, before continuing. Open Disk Utility from the macOS Utilities window. You can also find it in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
Choose View Show All Devices from the menu bar. From the sidebar in Disk Utility, select the disk or volume to erase. For most, you should erase the disk, which also erases all volumes on that disk. Click the Erase button or tab, then complete these fields:. Name: Enter a name for the disk or volume, such as 'Macintosh HD'. Format: Choose either to format as a Mac volume. Disk Utility shows a compatible format by default.
Scheme (if shown): Choose GUID Partition Map. Click Erase to begin erasing. Quit Disk Utility when done. You can now on the disk or volume, if you want your Mac to be able to start up from it. In the following example, APPLE SSD is the disk, Container disk1 is a container on that disk, and Macintosh HD is a volume in that container. (Only APFS-formatted disks show containers.) If your disk doesn't appear in Disk Utility, disconnect all nonessential devices from your Mac. If the disk is external, leave it connected, but make sure that it's turned on and connected directly to your Mac using a good cable.
Then restart your Mac and try again. If your disk still doesn't appear, your disk or Mac might need service. Disk Utility in can erase most disks and volumes using either the newer (Apple File System) format or the older Mac OS Extended format, and it automatically chooses a compatible format for you.
If you want to change the format, answer these questions: Are you formatting the disk that came built into your Mac? If the built-in disk came APFS-formatted, don't change it to Mac OS Extended. Are you about to install macOS High Sierra or later on the disk? If you need to erase your disk before installing High Sierra or later for the first time on that disk, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled). During installation, the macOS installer decides whether to automatically convert to APFS—without erasing your files:. macOS Mojave: The installer converts from Mac OS Extended to APFS.
macOS High Sierra: The installer converts from Mac OS Extended to APFS only if the volume is on an SSD or other all-flash storage device. And traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) aren't converted. Are you preparing a Time Machine backup disk or bootable installer? Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for any disk that you plan to use with or as a. Will you be using the disk with another Mac? If the other Mac isn't using High Sierra or later, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Earlier versions of macOS don't mount APFS-formatted volumes. Disk Utility tries to detect the type of storage and show the appropriate format in the Format menu. If it can't, it chooses Mac OS Extended, which works with all versions of macOS. To learn which format is currently in use, use any of these methods:. Select the volume in the Disk Utility sidebar, then check the information on the right. For more detail, choose File Get Info from the Disk Utility menu bar. Open and select Storage in the sidebar.
The File System column on the right shows the format of each volume. Select the volume in the Finder, then choose File Get Info from the menu bar. The Get Info window shows the Format of that volume.