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<blockquote data-quote="Mac Man 2007" data-source="post: 1950491" data-attributes="member: 393353">Just got back on after recovery mode. I had to give my wife her laptop back and I hate using iPhone for this stuff. OK I like bootable USBs and have used them since Snow Leopard.That said the first time I tried to upgrade using this 32 gb flash drive 2 weeks ago it failed and got stuck at the &quot;9 minutes left mark&quot;.&nbsp; I had installed Catalina using this USB to upgrade the 2015 Mac Pro and that went flawlessly. So I wiped the USB clean and downloaded from the Apple a new Catalina into applications earlier this week. So I used terminal like always to mount Catalina and the process went flawlessly. Then earlier today I used the USB to upgrade to Catalina and it got stuck at the exact same place &quot;9 minutes left&quot; and just sat there for a couple of hours. So I force quit and restarted the upgrade and it would get stuck in the same place. BTW the USB stick would quit blinking when it was stuck. Of course it doesn't blink continuously when upgrading but when it got stuck it didn't blink at all. Finally I shut it down and pulled the USB and the restarted to recovery. I did not use the internal recovery I went to apple and used their system.BTW I just ran first aid in disk utility on the flash drive and it was clean.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mac Man 2007, post: 1950491, member: 393353"] Just got back on after recovery mode. I had to give my wife her laptop back and I hate using iPhone for this stuff. OK I like bootable USBs and have used them since Snow Leopard. That said the first time I tried to upgrade using this 32 gb flash drive 2 weeks ago it failed and got stuck at the "9 minutes left mark". I had installed Catalina using this USB to upgrade the 2015 Mac Pro and that went flawlessly. So I wiped the USB clean and downloaded from the Apple a new Catalina into applications earlier this week. So I used terminal like always to mount Catalina and the process went flawlessly. Then earlier today I used the USB to upgrade to Catalina and it got stuck at the exact same place "9 minutes left" and just sat there for a couple of hours. So I force quit and restarted the upgrade and it would get stuck in the same place. BTW the USB stick would quit blinking when it was stuck. Of course it doesn't blink continuously when upgrading but when it got stuck it didn't blink at all. Finally I shut it down and pulled the USB and the restarted to recovery. I did not use the internal recovery I went to apple and used their system. BTW I just ran first aid in disk utility on the flash drive and it was clean. [/QUOTE]

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