

Admittedly the SanDisk SSD is overkill given the 1TB storage capacity. In this particular tutorial, I utilize a spare SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD, because it’s all I had available at the moment. In general, a USB flash drive will work, as long as it has at least 16GB of storage.

Selecting a USB driveīefore following this tutorial, you’ll need to make sure you have access to a USB drive that can serve as the installation destination. As noted at the outset, one of the primary benefits of creating a Monterey USB Install drive is to install Monterey on multiple computers. You can use the App Store to download Monterey, or install macOS from Recovery. It’s important to note that you don’t need to make a USB Installer to install macOS Monterey. Be sure to subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Mac-centric guides, tutorials, and how-tos. This is useful for facilitating upgrades to Monterey across multiple Mac computers. Tune in tomorrow for the next segment.ĭo you have Windows running on your Mac in a Boot Camp partition? Check out Winclone and Boot Runner to backup, migrate, and manage your Boot Camp partition.In this hands-on video walkthrough, I’ll show you how to turn an eligible USB drive, one that you may already have laying around the house, into a handy macOS Monterey install disk. There are also changes in how Boot Camp is affected by the new System Integrity Protection (SIP). We did a survey of all the shipping Macs, and here are the ones that support this new slicker setup: Supported:Įl Capitan’s Boot Camp-related updates are not just limited to Boot Camp Assistant. Only hardware that has newer firmware supports this. This setup is not supported on all Macs that run El Capitan. On next reboot, this device will change back to disk0s4, which is the standard device location for a Boot Camp partition.

Note that the Device is disk0s5 since the other partition existed on startup, but then it was deleted.
