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Problems creating a Mavericks bootable USB disk in Snow Leopard
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<blockquote data-quote="R0meisburning" data-source="post: 1742881" data-attributes="member: 387338"><p><strong>Source box will not accept basesystem.dmg file when dragged over from devices pane</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hello. I am at my wits end trying to create a bootable El Capitan USB installer (Sandisk 16GB USB 2.0 I think) from Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8. While in Disk Utility, I tried dragging the BaseSystem.dmg file into the Source box and the file disappears (no green plus sign). Can you please suggest a scenario and/or scenarios why this would occur? I know that createinstallmedia does not work; diskmaker x does not work, and probably other utilities per my research into trying to do the aforementioned. Thanks for looking, and I look forward to a response.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R0meisburning, post: 1742881, member: 387338"] [b]Source box will not accept basesystem.dmg file when dragged over from devices pane[/b] Hello. I am at my wits end trying to create a bootable El Capitan USB installer (Sandisk 16GB USB 2.0 I think) from Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8. While in Disk Utility, I tried dragging the BaseSystem.dmg file into the Source box and the file disappears (no green plus sign). Can you please suggest a scenario and/or scenarios why this would occur? I know that createinstallmedia does not work; diskmaker x does not work, and probably other utilities per my research into trying to do the aforementioned. Thanks for looking, and I look forward to a response. [/QUOTE]
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