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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1827030" data-attributes="member: 204485">Yes you can save it anywhere you like but it is probably more useful to convert it to a bootable installer and put that on a USB thumb drive.&nbsp; You can do this using a free app called DiskmakerXIt needs to be the right version for each macOS.&nbsp; With that and the instructions that are provided you can create a bootable Mojave installer which will enable you to boot a damaged or corrupted HD, repair it if possible with Disk Utility or erase and perform a clean instal of Mojave.&nbsp; This has saved my bacon once or twice including very recently where my HD became corrupted as well as my cloned backup recovery partition.&nbsp; I had a High Sierra bootable USB thumb drive with that I erased my SSD, reinstalled High Sierra then upgraded back to Mojave.&nbsp; Thevfirt thing I did after downloading the Mojave installer was make a new bootable USB thumb drive of Mojave.&nbsp; This process does not remove the Mojave installer so you will still have it and could still save a copy elsewhere but the Bootable installer has a longer shelf life.<a href="https://diskmakerx.com/8-0-1-available/" target="_blank">DiskMaker X 8.0.1 for macOS 10.14 Mojave available now !</a>Sent from my iPad using Mac-Forums</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1827030, member: 204485"] Yes you can save it anywhere you like but it is probably more useful to convert it to a bootable installer and put that on a USB thumb drive. You can do this using a free app called DiskmakerX It needs to be the right version for each macOS. With that and the instructions that are provided you can create a bootable Mojave installer which will enable you to boot a damaged or corrupted HD, repair it if possible with Disk Utility or erase and perform a clean instal of Mojave. This has saved my bacon once or twice including very recently where my HD became corrupted as well as my cloned backup recovery partition. I had a High Sierra bootable USB thumb drive with that I erased my SSD, reinstalled High Sierra then upgraded back to Mojave. Thevfirt thing I did after downloading the Mojave installer was make a new bootable USB thumb drive of Mojave. This process does not remove the Mojave installer so you will still have it and could still save a copy elsewhere but the Bootable installer has a longer shelf life. [URL='https://diskmakerx.com/8-0-1-available/']DiskMaker X 8.0.1 for macOS 10.14 Mojave available now ![/URL] Sent from my iPad using Mac-Forums [/QUOTE]

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