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Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area.

After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.

Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.

Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing Lion.Ģ. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Lion installer. After Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. After downloading Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Lion application. Once you have managed to capture the download:ġ. Start with this article:ĭownloading Hardware Specific Lion Installers It is possible to create your own USB installer. Select the drive in Disk Utility and then thePartition Tab.You can't as new Macs restore from the internet:Ĭomputers that can be upgraded to use Lion Internet Recovery

In Disk Utility, prepare the USB drive to be bootable.

Plugin your USB Drive, for this effort I used a 8gb USB drive, and open Disk Utility.

You will need this file to create the USB drive.

In the Finder window displaying the package contents select the Contents folder, then the SharedSupport folder.

Find the downloaded App package in Finder, right or control click it and select “Show Package Contents”.

How To Create an OS X Lion USB Installation Drive Below you will find the steps to install OS X Lion via a USB drive. In fact, it is still very easy to create a USB installation disk for OS X Lion. Starting with OS X Lion, the only way to get new software will be to download and install it through the Mac App store.įortunately, it does not appear that Apple has limited our ability to create our own installation media for OS X installations. No longer would you be able to buy the latest and greatest software from Apple on DVDs or other media. When Apple announced at their World Wide Developers Conference the release of OS X Lion, they shared that they were moving forward with a new way to distribute software to their customers.