MacBook Pro clean install from USB (macOS High Sierra APFS)
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- Learn how to clean install your MacBook Pro from USB with macOS High Sierra.
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Tutorial Series # Used MacBook - Still Worth It?
Part 0 - Intro used or new? ➜ • Is it better to buy a ...
Part 1 - RAM Upgrade (16GB) ➜ • Late 2011 MacBook Pro ...
Part 2 - SSD Upgrade (960EVO) ➜ • Used MacBook Pro 2011 ...
Part 3 - Fresh Install (High Sierra) ➜ • MacBook Pro clean inst...
Part 4 - 2019 MacBook Pro ➜ • Apple MacBook Pro 2019...
Part 5 - Fresh Install (Catalina) ➜ • How to clean install m...
UPDATE - Fresh Install (macOS Big Sur) ➜ • How to clean install m...
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Geekbench Test Results:
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In video 3 of this MacBook Pro tutorial series, you will learn how to create a bootable USB flash drive for installing macOS.
You can easily create a USB install stick for any OS you like, Mojave and Catalina should work as well, more details in this Apple support article: ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
Keep in mind however that your MacBook needs to support the version of macOS that you are planning to install. In the case of my upgraded 2011 MacBook only up to High Sierra is supported officially.
If you have installed a new empty SSD already, you may need to download a version of High Sierra from another computer, you can find a link for the download here: ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969
Simply download the OS from the App Store, and then follow the steps shown in the video to create a bootable USB install drive.
Once finished you can plug the USB stick into your MacBook Pro and install a clean copy of High Sierra, Mojave, or Catalina.
Make sure to format the drive with the APFS filesystem, because this is optimized for SSD and NVMe media.
0:00 - Intro
2:51 - Bootable USB-Stick
8:11 - Fresh Install
11:52 - Geekbench Test
14:19 Summary
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So comprehensive and thus deserved a sub! Thanks heaps
Thanks, this was one of the most helpful I could find!
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much owh good sir, this tutorial really helped me a lot in restoring my old imac👍🏻 the video was really informative and helpful
Glad it helped
Your the BEST Man!!! You totally helped me out my good sir god bless Thank You 🙏🏻
Glad I could help!
Good work man👍👏🏼
Thank you 🙌
Thank you very much for this tutorial. I just upgraded my macbook Pro 2011. Everything went fine. The speed is back. No need to buy another macbook for the time being👍🏻.
Great to hear!
My man
You help me so much
Awesome, glad to hear it was useful, I also put the apple support articles in the description below, good for additional reference, such as copying the console commands.
Thanks for this tut!! It took me all day to start to software. The day before I was able to make a bootable USB after downloading an older version of macOS after 6 hours of seeing, "Untitled is not a good mount", or whatever it said. Today I tried to install it and it turned out to be corrupt... 🙃 I had to stop the process and look for a fix. Then I went ahead and downloaded macOS Sierra 12.6.06 and used a sudo prutil code in terminal to change the version to 12.6.03 in the info.plist file. It was a train wreck, but it showed me that everything doesn't go as smoothly as you hope when working with software.
Now I'm waiting for Sierra to install and thinking about how much I've learned in these two days. My overall trouble shooting hours is 8-9, but eh. At least it's working.
Ok, more details in the video description.
Thank you! I can trust your information
Additional info in the support articles in the video description.
Thank you so much! This is exactly what I was looking for to install my new ssd.
Glad I could help!
@@ReviewTechTV When you turned on your mac with the usb stick inserted, did you press the option key? Or did you just turn it on and it came to the disk menu?
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Dang bro, good video. Can you try running windows 10 on an ssd please?
Could you tell me which hard-disk can we buy of Mac book pro a1278
my mac os utilities page is not opening up after turning ON the laptop what should i do ???
Bro can you please help me, I have 2011 mbp 15" it is installed with bootcamp and no mac os. I created a bootable drive through windows and in recovery I selected bootable drive and it is stuck in Apple logo. It won't go to recovery. What should I do? Please reply🥺
I followed the forum and this video and found that I was unable to install the OS when the SSD was formatted APFS, and kept receiving the error "This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).". I partitioned the drive and reformatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and was able to install. Is there major advantages to formatting APFS and if so can I reformat after the fact?
All new SSD drives should be formatted using APFS, when formatting it will detect and select the right option automatically:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496#which
Great Videos 👍👍
Few Questions
- I Want To Keep The Hard Drive But Replace The Optical Drive To SSD, Can i Just Remove The Optical Drive and Install SSD Using Optical Bay HD Enclosure and Install High Sierra On It - Will it Work !!??? Because I Have Read Many Comments On Internet Regarding SATA III Compatibility Issues That Cause Problems Like Not Mounting, Ejecting During Larger Transfer Files Etc. For My Macbook 13 Late 2011 Model
- Or Should i Just Take The Harddisk Out And Put SSD In & Replace Optical Drive With HardDisk Using Optical Bay HD Enclosure - Will It Work !!??
- The SSD You Used In This Video , Is It Working Fine !!??
If you want to replace the Optical Drive in your MacBook I suggest having a look at iFixit, they have many useful tutorials:
www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook_Pro_13%22_Unibody_Late_2011
Excellent video!!! You need to update 1 step. macOs High Sierra is no longer on App Store and link on the apple page does not help. Instead you can download MDS (Free). Launch MDS and at the bottom left you can click on download mac OS and download most of the macOs operating systems since High Sierra. Next you have to move the macOs High Sierra over to the applications and then follow the remaining steps on your video there after. Definitely a thumbs up and a must sub. Thank you so much.
I checked the links, they work fine, ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
Link to the app store does not pull up the macos high sierra for me. Same as if I just went directly to the app store.
Makes no sense, the links all work fine, I checked again today:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969
See 4. "Download macOS High Sierra"
hi the link for high Sierra is not available to download anymore from the uk please can you advise
How to get old versions of macOS
support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683
So I don’t want to format my new ssd as MacOS extended journaled?
Yes, please use the APFS filesystem as it is specifically designed for solid-state drives.
Thank you very much for the videos and the links. I have the Mac Book Pro 13' late 2011 and I also use the same SSD.
I am running into 2 problems however:
1 - when I format the SSD the system does not offer me APFS
2 - when I pick "install MacOS" it shows El Capitan and wants to download the OS
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.
Sure, you can install macOS High Sierra on your MacBook Pro, if you don’t want to clean install from USB there is also the normal method ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969
A third popular option is to reinstall directly over the internet by using the macOS recovery mode ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
@@ReviewTechTV Vielen Dank für die schnellen Antworten und die anderen Lösungsvorschläge. Ich finde es nur verwunderlich, dass bei mir Deine Schritte nicht nachvollziehbar sind. Ich habe zufällig das gleiche Equipment, sowohl MacBook als auch SSD. Mein USB Stick hat HighSierra drauf. Ich habe Deine Schritte genau nachvollzogen, trotzdem wird APFS nicht angeboten und der USBStick wird anscheinend nicht erkannt.
@@hansschnieder993 Aus der Ferne schwer zu beurteilen, es gibt im Prinzip drei Möglichkeiten zur Neuinstallation:
1. Aus dem App Store laden und reinstallieren ➜ support.apple.com/de-de/HT208969
2. Laden, USB-Stick erstellen, alles löschen und komplett neuinstallieren ➜ support.apple.com/de-de/HT201372
3. Wiederherstellen per Internet aus dem Recovery Modus ➜ support.apple.com/de-de/HT204904
Hi ReviewTechTV, did your High Sierra installation via USB take 8-9 hours too?
I used the same Samsung 860 Evo SSD but at 250gb
Do you think I may have RAM or other problems like mobo? I did Apple Diagnostics and no problems were found.
My High Sierra Installation stops at 4mins and gives me the error: "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."
This has happened 3 times now. I have also used Terminal to input the correct time and date but no luck at all. Still the same error.
More details in the video description.
Hi, your information is very thorough. Well done. But I have a question. I don't have another mac to create a bootable disc. So I use TransMac (popular method), however now that my USB had been formatted the right way, the start up doesn't detect the USB boot (not going pass the installation screen (9:35)). Please shed a light
Ok, according to Apple you can install macOS via USB:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
Also please be aware that newer MacBooks have a so-called T2 security chip. While in the past on older models you could just plug in any USB stick or external drive and boot from it, the new security chip will prevent it unless you previously change the settings.
Chase A - Older Mac Computers
1. On Startup Press ➜ Option (⌥)
2. Select macOS ➜ Boot from USB
Chase B - New Mac Computers:
1. On Startup Press ➜ Command (⌘)-R:
2. Go to ➜ Utilities ➜ Startup Security Tool
3. Select macOS ➜ Boot from USB
Tried on MacBook Pro 2012 Model not even showing on Alt key for boot menu any support
Thank you very much for these tutorials. Very, very interesting !!! Now I have to decide whether it is convenient to upgrade RAM and SSD on my MacBook Pro Late 2011. My question is: how long this computer will continue to live considering that new OS versions are not compatible and not upgraded on this machine? What will happen in the future? Wath is the consequence of that? Will still the computer be usable in 2 or 3 years?
i have the same model and i am jsut upgrading for light video editing etc cost me 150 eu
@@abcdefuxkk this is very nice. But my dubt is: is maybe possible that next year or so, I can have strong problems to run applications due to the old OS?
@@costagliolasandro there is always risk ,i i wish i knew that upgrade few year ago but again what to lose even if i can use it 1 more year still good to me than buying new one
@@abcdefuxkk can you kindly copy here the links of new RAM and SSD that you installed?
@@costagliolasandro excatly same one recomended on info here
.. only diffrence i ordered 1Tb samsung
What format do I need to have my usb in, I am having issues in the terminal not being able to read my usb
If I am not mistaken the terminal command should override the USB flash drive regardless of it's current file system.
If the USB isn't detected go to: -> Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility -> View -> Show All Devices
You need to erase your USB drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) at first.
Here's the Apple's official guide to make bootable MacOS USB drive : support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
I’m seeing people having a problem with loading High Sierra on an apfs formatted disk. You were successful loading High Sierra on APFS. Is loading High Sierra from a thumb drive the work around?
According to Apple you can install macOS via USB like this:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
Do you select mac os extended journal if you are still using HDD ? :) or can use as well select apfs for the hdd
Ok, according to Apple you can format like this:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
When formating a drive with Disk Utility it shows the correct option by default:
• macOS Extended (Journaled) = for hard disk drives.
• Apple APFS = for SSD and NVMe drives
Doesn't work. My newly formatted APFS drive (1 TB Samsung EVO 850) is ghosted and shows "This volume is not formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled)." I tried APFS and APFS (Encrypted) neither of which work... The High Sierra installer was downloaded today (23-May-2021) from Apple and placed on a 32GB USB stick. I'm out of ideas... SSD is from 2017 or so, firmware issue perhaps??
UPDATE: I found some mention of needing to already have installed High Sierra before attempting a clean install from a High Sierra USB installer. So I formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled), installed the OS, did all the updates including firmware and then went back to the High Sierra USB installer. I again blew away the disk with Disk Utility and formatted APFS, and now it sees the disk and is installing High Sierra onto an APFS formatted Samsung 850 EVO SSD!
Just in case anyone else has this problem, that's the solution. Apparently the High Sierra firmware updates are required to talk to 3rd Party (internal) SSDs vs. the Apple soldered ones these days. For a company that prides itself on Mac "just works", it sure took a LOT of technical research and other nonsense just to get to a usable HS installation on APFS!
Refused to let me install as APFS on an SSD - insisted on MacOS Extended Journaled - so I went with it...
Hi, I have a question. My hdd is bad and I'm putting a 500gb ssd in it. Is there another way to install Mac OS besides having a usb stick? Thanks
There are several options to install the operating system:
macOS Recovery ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
USB bootable installer ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
@@ReviewTechTV Great! I'll do that, thanks!
When you're in terminal after taping NO ( for NO NAME) what is the "tap button" that you talk about? to automatically have the good volume name...? from a very beginner
The Tab key is two below the ESC key, look for Tab ⇥
Useful Mac Keyboard infos:
➜ www.danrodney.com/mac/
Hello. Big issue here. I have updated from Sierra to Catalina. But everything is working bad. I want to install back my backup Sierra HFS.
The problem is that I cannot do it anymore as the new 10.15 Catalina erase hfs and uses only APFS.
What can I do in this case? The bootable USB does not drive and I don’t really what to do.
Please could you suggest a way?
I don't recommend going back to the old operating system:
2019 - Catalina ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475
2018 - Mojave ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190
2017 - High Sierra ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969
2016 - Sierra ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202
The APFS filesystem is specially made for SSD drives.
You state everything is working bad. Maybe you need to upgrade your memory, the new operating system require more.
How about if we install the macOS on another usb instead of SSD, what format are we going to choose?
If you install macOS on an external USB drive it will work, but will be much slower.
Internal is better because SSD needs the faster SATA interface.
i formatted my SSD as the APFS filesystem but when i went to choose where to install the OS it stated "this drive is not formatted as macOS extended Journal." does it have to do with how I downloaded the installer?
Ok, according to Apple you can format like this:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
When formating a drive with Disk Utility it shows the correct option by default:
• macOS Extended (Journaled) = for hard disk drives.
• Apple APFS = for SSD and NVMe drives
@@ReviewTechTV Weird, I installed a new SSD (MX500 by Crucial) wonder why it wants to default to macOS extended?
Hi, nice video. I was wondering how come I'm getting a prompt in my MacBook Pro 2009 that the installer is damaged somehow? I've downloaded from multiple sources and the same exact thing is happening. Formatted the drive as shown in your video, made a bootable usb drive as well and it just goes tumbling down at the install stage. Would be awesome if you could help out. Thank you
How to download and install macOS:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/102662
Why did you download from multiple sources? Please only use macOS that is directly from Apple!
In addition please refer to the Apple support articles in the video description.
@@ReviewTechTV I got it installed now. Had to change the date and disconnect from the web. You should add it to your description since that way it works 100%. But thank you for replying by the way.
@@demz3514 If you download macOS from a non Apple source you do so at your own risk!
After a enter password in terminal it says command not found. What else can I do
Additional information can be found in the video description.
is it ok to format the ssd to mac os extended journaled?
According to Apple APFS is optimized for SSD and automatically selected by disk utility.
My Mac is stuck in safe Boot when I erase the hard drive and reinstall the os still showing safe boot and when I tried to fix the problem from disk utility it is not fixing in disk utility it showing problem s were found in partion map which might preventing booting
Could you help me to fix it
And sometimes showing problems were found in start-up volume error
According to Apple you can re-install macOS like this:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
@@ReviewTechTV thanks . but I tried this way still not fix so should I replace the current hard-disk to new hard-disk . Then it will ok or not . what about your opinion
If I replace the hardisk which format I should select eg APFS format or any other format
When you turned on your mac to install the ssd with the usb stick, I did not see you open in recovery mode, correct? You just turned it on and went to disk utility to erase and format the ssd.
If the new SSD is empty the system will boot from the USB-Stick.
If there is already an operating system on the internal drive, use Option (⌥) on startup to select the boot drive.
➜ support.apple.com/en-is/HT201255
You can then boot from USB, wipe the internal drive, and do a fresh install.
Thx for all the vids man! Amazing walkthrough. Formatting to APFS wouldn’t let me install High Sierra. To be able to install I needed the Mac OS extended file system but it wasn’t available now in disk utility - after searching RUclips I found you need to go into edit and delete the APFS volume - you can now select the file system you need to install HS
Ok, according to Apple you can format like this;
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
Sadly my 2009 IMac isn’t giving me the option to delete. It’s greyed out so I seem stuck in APFS and I am trying to donate the computer to a youth centre. I’m not sure what else to do.
Problem is as put usb drive it shows white screen and then starts flashing that question mark
More details in the video description.
Great video, very thorough, however... I downloaded the Install macOS High Sierra to an external. Can't I simply copy and paste this to a thumbdrive? Or do I need to do like you did with pasting the link into the terminal? Thank you.
I just did this today, copy the SUDO code from "support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372" and change My Volume to the name of your thumb drive. Then follow the steps of enter password, do you want to except, etc. May take a few minutes to format but should have no issues installing to thumbdrive. Cheers
How did you do it? ... because downloading macOS from the App Store should put it in the system folder.
For creating an install stick it needs to be done like described in the video and Apple support article.
@@ReviewTechTV I did it a few months back, so I do not remember. Though I do remember it was not in the app store. I found a link where you can download it. It's on my external. I have several files that came with it like...HighSierraBasics.icns, HighSierraHardware.icns, HighSierraWhatsNew.icns, Install macOS High Sierra (no file extension, under kind says, application), and a bunch of module audio and tag php files, etc... Like I said, Can I simply put these files on a thumbdrive and then plug it into my non-working laptop that I'm trying to install it on? Thank you! Kim
@@ReviewTechTV Okay. It's all a bit over my head, but I'll study what you are doing and give it a try. Thank you!
HI THERE ISNT NO MORE THE THE PAGE TO DOWNLOAD HIGH SIERRA
Details in the video description, including link how to create High Sierra USB install stick.
Either Apple removed it since the making of this video or, I’m not researching properly. I went into Apple and tried to pull up exactly what you show on your vid, and only Catalina os pops up.🥺
Ok, according to Apple this is the correct working link:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969
Thank you, I finally found it as well only I can’t download it because my OS is old
@@ReviewTechTV apple store only lets me download the 21MB installer.. can i do something with it? I want to install them in another computer so i would need a bootable installer.
I've tried making the bootable installer from the 21MB file, but Terminal said it is not the right installer application, although i've downloaded it from App Store :( Any help will be greatly appreciated good sir🙏
@@FeliciaKarta Ok, according to Apple you can install macOS via USB:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
Hi, thanks for the videos that are very clear ! I followed all the steps successfully, but on the macOS High Sierra installation page, when asking to choose the disk, my "Mac SSD" cannot be chosen as it says "This volume is not formatted as Mac Os Extended ". Indeed, I have just formatted the drive with the APFS filesystem. Do you know what can be done to solve this? Thanks again!
Let me check
How to erase a disk for Mac ➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
@@ReviewTechTV thanks for the quick answer! I followed the following steps -> Erase Disk (Samsung) -> Mac Os Extended and then launch the install manager of Mac Os High Sierra, it worked and it seems the system automatically formated the SSD into APFS (crypted). Thanks a lot for the help !
For some reason it would not let me use apfs to install high sierra.
APFS is used for SSD's drives, more information here:
support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/erase-a-volume-dskutl14079/16.0/mac/10.13
@@ReviewTechTV it is an ssd so I’m not sure why. Is it cause the previous drive was on a really old Mac OS maybe?
@@jameshouse7946 How to partition a SSD using APFS:
➜ support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/partition-a-physical-disk-dskutl14027/16.0/mac/10.13
@@ReviewTechTV thank you I’m a noob lol!
i get no bag entry
What is the supposed to mean?
Dude this sucks. Flying through this
Create a bootable installer for macOS:
support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
Thanks for your reply
This install is taking hours. Something seems wrong.
Ok, according to Apple you can also reinstall macOS like this:
➜ support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
More details in the video description.
nice but... to much talking... make less talking and go direct important info... sorry bro just saying...
Noted
Many of my viewers also use the summary in the video description.