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<blockquote data-quote="greyhound rick" data-source="post: 1703289" data-attributes="member: 147622">Hello everyone,Thanks in advance for helping me!I recently created a usb boot drive for my 2009 MBP running Lion and everything worked fine when i installed my ssd (thanks to you folks).My next project is to do the same thing on my friend's 2010 17&quot; MBP running Yosemite 10.10.5As I discovered, the creation of this particular usb bootable drive is different vs. the one I had previously done with Lion. I had never done a Terminal entry up until tonight.After completing the boot drive I attempted to boot the 17&quot; MBP using the thumb drive and I could not get past a certain point. When I selected the USB drive in System Preferences (under the Start Up Disk option) and also using the Start Up Mgr. I would in both circumstances get the screen that says &quot;OS X&quot; Installer&quot; Then it says &quot;To set up the installation of OS X click continue. I thought i already had the OS X installed on the usb drive. I did a Verify Disk and it said all is well. Then I noticed that when I was choosing which drive to boot from that my USB thumb drive indeed showed up and was a viable option which i did select. However, every time I try to boot from the USB drive I keep getting the aforementioned screen.I even chose the Installer at one point and it told me that the disk did not have enough space. Reason being is that the OS X is already installed on it I believe.The name of the USB drive is now &quot;OS X&nbsp; Base System&quot;.Thank you very much for taking the time to read this. I apologize if Ive missed something very obvious, but I am officially stuck!best to you all,rick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="greyhound rick, post: 1703289, member: 147622"] Hello everyone, Thanks in advance for helping me! I recently created a usb boot drive for my 2009 MBP running Lion and everything worked fine when i installed my ssd (thanks to you folks). My next project is to do the same thing on my friend's 2010 17" MBP running Yosemite 10.10.5 As I discovered, the creation of this particular usb bootable drive is different vs. the one I had previously done with Lion. I had never done a Terminal entry up until tonight. After completing the boot drive I attempted to boot the 17" MBP using the thumb drive and I could not get past a certain point. When I selected the USB drive in System Preferences (under the Start Up Disk option) and also using the Start Up Mgr. I would in both circumstances get the screen that says "OS X" Installer" Then it says "To set up the installation of OS X click continue. I thought i already had the OS X installed on the usb drive. I did a Verify Disk and it said all is well. Then I noticed that when I was choosing which drive to boot from that my USB thumb drive indeed showed up and was a viable option which i did select. However, every time I try to boot from the USB drive I keep getting the aforementioned screen. I even chose the Installer at one point and it told me that the disk did not have enough space. Reason being is that the OS X is already installed on it I believe. The name of the USB drive is now "OS X Base System". Thank you very much for taking the time to read this. I apologize if Ive missed something very obvious, but I am officially stuck! best to you all, rick [/QUOTE]

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