Editor's note: This article is part of our.Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t require a bootable installation disc. But there are a good number of reasons you might want a bootable Mountain Lion installer on an external hard drive or a thumb drive (USB stick).For example, if you want to on multiple Macs, a bootable install drive can be more convenient than downloading or copying the entire Mountain Lion installer to each computer. Also, if your Mac is experiencing problems, a bootable install drive makes a handy emergency disk. (Mountain Lion’s feature, known as Lion Recovery prior to Mountain Lion’s release, is a big help here, but not all Macs get it—and if your Mac’s drive is itself having trouble, recovery mode may not even be available.
Also, if you need to reinstall Mountain Lion, recovery mode requires you to download the entire 4GB+ installer again.) Finally, if you need to —assuming you have the license to do so—a bootable install drive makes it easier to do so.Thankfully, it’s easy to create a bootable install drive from the Mountain Lion installer that you download from the Mac App Store. I show you how, below.You may have noticed that I didn’t mention making a bootable install DVD.
Though it’s possible to make one, I don’t recommend it these days. More and more Macs ship without a built-in optical drive; booting and installing from a DVD is very slow; and 8GB flash drives can be found for $10 or less—there’s little reason to opt for a DVD anymore.
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In addition, you can easily update a USB stick or external hard drive each time an update to Mac OS X is released, as explained below; with a DVD, you have to toss the disc in the trash and start over, which is both a hassle and bad for the environment. That said, if, for whatever reason, you absolutely need to create a bootable install DVD, follow steps 1 through 5 under “,” below, but from Step 6 on, follow the instructions under “To create a bootable DVD” in.(Note: As explained in, if you leave the Mountain Lion installer in its default location in the Applications folder when you install OS X 10.8, the installer will be deleted automatically after the installation finishes. So if you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to re-download the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable install drive.)Get the latest version of the Mountain Lion installerBefore you make a bootable install drive, you should make sure you have the latest version of the Mountain Lion installer. You didn’t even realize there are different versions of the installer? It turns out that when you download the Mountain Lion installer from the Mac App Store, that copy of the installer installs whatever version of OS X was available at the time of download. For example, if you downloaded OS X 10.8 the day Mountain Lion is released, you downloaded the 10.8.
Which means that a bootable install drive you create from that installer will install OS X 10.8.0.However, unlike with the CD- and DVD-based Mac OS X installers of old, which can never be updated once they’re created, Apple regularly updates the Mountain Lion installer on the Mac App Store so that it installs the latest version of OS X 10.8. For example, when the inevitable 10.8.1 update is released, a few days later the Mac App Store will begin providing an updated Mountain Lion installer that installs 10.8.1 right off the bat. Using an updated installer is convenient, because it means that if you ever need to re-install Mountain Lion, you won’t have to install 10.8.0 and then immediately install the latest big update.Obviously, then, you want to create your bootable install drive using the latest version of the Mountain Lion installer. However, unlike with other Mac App Store-purchased software, the Mac App Store does not update the copy of the Mountain Lion installer app on your hard drive. If you’ve got an older version of the installer and you want the latest version, you must re-download Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store.
(If the Mac App Store won’t let you re-download the installer, quit the Mac App Store app, relaunch it, and then Option+click the Purchases tab in the toolbar; that should show the Download button next to Mountain Lion in the Purchases list.)Similarly, any bootable Mountain Lion install drive you create will not automatically be updated to the latest installer version. If you create an install drive and later download an updated version of the Mountain Lion installer, updating your install drive means erasing it and repeating the procedure below.How do you know if you have the newest version of the Mountain Lion installer? There’s a file inside the installer that indicates which version of OS X it will install, but getting to that file and viewing it is messy. The easiest approach is to simply look at the Information box on the on the Mac App Store—specifically, check the date next to Updated. Then locate your downloaded copy of the Mountain Lion installer in the Finder, choose File - Get Info, and look at the date next to Modified. If the Mac App Store date is newer than the Modified date on your copy of the installer, you need to re-download the installer to get the latest version. (The version listed in the Mac App Store’s Information box is the version of OS X you’ll get if you download the installer.)A note on installer compatibilityThe initial Mac App Store version of Mountain Lion will boot only those Macs released prior to Mountain Lion’s debut—Macs released after Mountain Lion’s debut will ship with a newer version of Mountain Lion preinstalled.
This means that if you make a bootable install drive right when Mountain Lion debuts, and then later buy a new Mac, your install drive won’t boot that Mac. However, as explained above, Apple regularly updates the Mountain Lion installer on the Mac App Store so that it installs the latest version of OS X 10.8. If you create a new bootable installer using the first major update to Mountain Lion after your Mac was released, it should be able to boot all your Macs.There’s a catch here, however: Recent Macs are designed to let you re-install the OS using. So if you buy a new Mac post-Mountain Lion, and you haven’t purchased Mountain Lion for another Mac, you can’t download the Mountain Lion installer from the Mac App Store. For Lion, I explained how to.
Once Apple starts shipping Macs with a Mountain Lion version of, I’ll update that article to cover Mountain Lion.Create the Mountain Lion install driveThere are a couple ways you can create a bootable install drive: using OS X’s own Disk Utility or using the third-party utility Carbon Copy Cloner. The latter is easier, but the former doesn’t require you to download third-party software. (The developer of will be releasing, soon after Mountain Lion’s debut, an update to that utility that supports Mountain Lion, giving you yet another option.)Note that whichever method you use, you need a hard drive or thumb drive (USB stick) at least 5GB in size (an 8GB flash drive works well), and it must be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. Follow to properly format the drive.Using Disk Utility You’ll find this utility in your Utilities folder (in /Applications/Utilities). Here are the steps for using it to create your installer drive:.
Once you’ve purchased Mountain Lion, find the installer on your Mac.