Universal Serial Bus drives or USB drives as they are largely known are highly useful devices that help save the entire data that a person considers even remotely responsible in their pockets. Their use as bootable Linux systems has been discussed in other posts in this blogs. Here we are going to talk about ways to install a OS X into a USB that lets one run OS X in any Intel based computer.
Linux users have for a long time enjoyed the ease with which they can save their entire operating system in a pen drive and get their home screens in any computer. It is easy to install OS X in computers that are not meant to run it in the first place. Here you can learn to install OS X in USB drives that can be used to run it by just plugging in the USB into the computer.
To create an OS X thumb drive you will need a Mac. Obtain a copy of iPortable version of OS X and download it. In a clean USB drive using the Open disk utility you can create a partition and format it as Mac OS extended drive. Hit format here with the option of a Master Boot Record. Now head to the iPortanble version of OS which is in your possession. Begin it and run a program called as CopyCatX. This will give you various options that will help your need to carefully read and keep going ahead. In the final moments of the iPortable steps, select the recently formatted drive and press the backup and restore button. In the end you will have to fix the bootloader. This is important for the USB drive to be detected in the boot screen. This can be done from the iPortable Snow OSX first screen where you will get the option of ‘First Aid’.