This is perfect. Im attempting to make my old macbook headless, but alas, i ripped the guts years ago as a filter burnt out and now was unusable. I have a macos VM on my server so i can do this
Great video brother!Worked like a charm. Now I am able to try out different versions of MacOS, without committing to the change on my main drive, and the need to use time machine to roll it back if I don’t like it. The original purpose for doing this is to use TurboTax 2022 that will not install on Catalina, but will run on Big Sur or higher. I have yet to install TurboTax 22 on the external flash drive on which I have installed Big Sur, but I don’t imagine it’s going to be a problem. Again, thank you, as this really helped!
this worked with external SSD but i have a question. if I did NOT see internal disk in disk utility or even terminal. does that mean I could only use my mac when its plugged into my external SSD? what would happen if I unplug the EXTERNAL SSD?
It’s just everything save in external if ur internal doesn’t work the computer it’s not gonna work cuz u don’t have the installer and the data the computer needs and if u install ur external everything comes to normality
I have a new Mac Studio (2202) M1 Max 32GB, macOS Monterey 12.6.1. Purchased I have a SanDisk 4TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD/formatted to APFS. I installed MacOS Monterey 12.6.1 on the SanDisk 4TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD, using my Macbook Air. When I try to boot off the Sandisk drive via my Mac Studio, I am not able or allowed to do so. When I attempt to use Startup Disk in System Preferences, I am able to select the SanDisk drive, "HOWEVER", when I press restart, I get this message..."Unable to set startup disk An error occurred while setting “Untitled” as the startup disk: The operation couldn’t be completed. (SDErrorDomain error 108.)" When I turn on my Mac Studio, while holding the power button for 30sec, I see both the Mac internal drive, and my external Sandisk drive, but I am NOT able to boot from it. Selecting the options logo puts me in recovery mode. I have already selected the Utilities Drop Down menu and selected "Startup Security Utility'', I have "Reduced Security" Checked off, "Allows any version of signed operating system software ever trusted by Apple to run" Can you tell me how to set my Mac Studio to boot off of the SanDisk 4TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD without all these roadblocks....
Nice Video, When you boot to the external drive, do you have access to the internal drives? ( user folders?) also, do you have any direct links to older MAC OS?
Thanks for this tuto. Once MacOSx is on the external drive, is bootable and usable, is it possible to install this external drive as internal drive (into a minimac) ?
I remember now ... I did this back in 2013 on a i5 2011 Macbook Pro .. Good This Video Is Still Around ... Big Help To Remember .. OPTION lol .. totally forgot
Hello, I have a Macbook Pro 2019 with 250 GB internal, but I can't even install the software I need, I work on something that requires more. I would like to use my external solid drive as primary and I'm confirming whether to select AFPS or Extended Journaled. It would be to install OS X on that 1 TB SSD external device and also use it, not only to create the installation image. Do you know if I select Mac OS X Extended (journaled) again in that case?
Thanks for this. A question: if I upgrade the MacOS installed on the external SSD, would it still work on an unsupported device? e.g. Can Big Sur run on a 2013 iMac from an external SSD?
hello i have a question, since i downloaded the macos on an external hard drive and i'll be using it as my main drive, can i unplug the external hard drive?
I really didn't understand your question. You are saying: 1- You have installed macOS on external drive. And you will be using it as your main OS. 2- Can you eject the external drive every now and then if you're not using it? If yes, then yes you can do it. You will have to access the internal drive by pressing the options key while powering on your MacBook if you have setup your external drive as the startup drive in system preferences! Hope it helps. if you wanted to ask something else, then please lmk!
Can i partion a hard drive with with one side bootcamp windows filesystem on it - and the other osx operating system at the same drive? (i.e two different OS, in one system?)
Yes you can, but first you must to format the whole drive before starting for it to work 😅 So, I would recommend you to install Windows first, then make a partition and install macOS on the other partition
Hi iMat.. I have a question.My current Mac does not go beyond Catalina 10.15.7. I cannot use MS Office 365 below version 11.0.0. So, the option here is to find MS Office 2010 for Mac or can I install Mohave with version 11 on external hard drive and use keep using my current laptop.
Good video man, I got a problem, I got installed macOS Monterrey on an external SSD Samsung t7, I use it with an iMac 2015, the thing is that from time to time it just stops working, and I need to force the shut-down, any idea why this is happening?
Hey there, I installed the Update on my external but now I would like to remove it from my external and revert it back to a standard external hard drive with no update or start-up disk, how do I do this? Thanks so much!
Thanks for the video. I did the same steps, but using the internet. Everything is fine, but when it boots, the download stops on the apple logo, then it restarts automatically and stops again on the apple logo.
If you’re downloading the firmware file over internet in the recovery menu, then it will take longer to finish because it needs to download and verify the files! That’s why I prefer doing it this way!
Thanks for your help!! Managed to get it up and running now, however I can’t select anything else on startup disk as external hardrive is the only thing that shows up for me.
That’s odd. Shut down your laptop. Then press the power button and immediately press the Options key and boot into your main drive. Then select your preferred disk as the startup disk!
@@iMAT it does the same thing, I think I might have received the laptop after someone has attempted to erase asif it were a windows laptop and erased the usual startup disk
As far as i know you will need really specific laptops with sets of hardwares that are natively supported by macOS. If you don’t have that then you’re out of luck
MacBook Air here, I erased my internal drive by accident have tried everything to get it to work. I tried installing macOS on an external drive using your steps and my download is still failing. What do I do? 😭
Hello, I installed MacOS Monterey on an external USB and formatted an external HDD 1tb to Guid scheme and MacOS extended. When I boot into the USB, I can’t select the the HDD. It says “The operation couldn’t be completed” and it’s grayed out. what could be the issue?
Does the age of the mac matter, or does it matter if its a macbook or imac? I hold the option key when the screen goes black and it doesn't do jack or jill....just boots up into my regular drive, WTF?
Try this: *Turn on your Mac and continue to press and hold the power button as your Mac starts up. Release the power button when you see the startup options screen, which shows your startup disks and a gear icon labeled Options.*
@@iMAT Tried it, made an long aggressive beep, just one, then went to the regular boot up....don't wanna try it again, thought i broke it with that noise lol
Hi, thank you the video. I am running high sierra on a macbook pro 13 2015 and installed monterey on external disk, but without going into recovery mode, i just opened monterey install file on high sierra and chose external drive. Now some things, like the way the system boots up, and, I suspect, the way my audio drivers work, changed on high sierra. Is it because I didnt install the new system in recovery mode?
@@iMAT there’s a software I had to download that basically did everything for me. So I got it. But to no prevail I can’t even play my games so was all for a waste 😂
Slow your speech and eliminate the background music (?) which adds nothing to an already hard-to-understand, poorly enunciated presentation. Slow your clicking through the menus; this is not a race, is it?
bro after searching and searching , i came across your video and i could finally change to an ssd with new OS , this worked thanks 🙏🏻
nice educational tutorial video bro. you really made my day bright as the sunshine🌞 and really appreciate the knowledge given out to the viewers👌
This is perfect. Im attempting to make my old macbook headless, but alas, i ripped the guts years ago as a filter burnt out and now was unusable. I have a macos VM on my server so i can do this
Same
Great video brother!Worked like a charm. Now I am able to try out different versions of MacOS, without committing to the change on my main drive, and the need to use time machine to roll it back if I don’t like it.
The original purpose for doing this is to use TurboTax 2022 that will not install on Catalina, but will run on Big Sur or higher. I have yet to install TurboTax 22 on the external flash drive on which I have installed Big Sur, but I don’t imagine it’s going to be a problem. Again, thank you, as this really helped!
Good to know it helped :D
I've tried this over and over now and every time I go to boot from the external drive it just loads back up through the internal? How do I fix this?
Thanks for the video,by the way where i can download file for mac os? Then where to put the file mac os when i get download?
this worked with external SSD but i have a question. if I did NOT see internal disk in disk utility or even terminal.
does that mean I could only use my mac when its plugged into my external SSD? what would happen if I unplug the EXTERNAL SSD?
It’s just everything save in external if ur internal doesn’t work the computer it’s not gonna work cuz u don’t have the installer and the data the computer needs and if u install ur external everything comes to normality
I have a new Mac Studio (2202) M1 Max 32GB, macOS Monterey 12.6.1. Purchased I have a SanDisk 4TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD/formatted to APFS. I installed MacOS Monterey 12.6.1 on the SanDisk 4TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD, using my Macbook Air. When I try to boot off the Sandisk drive via my Mac Studio, I am not able or allowed to do so. When I attempt to use Startup Disk in System Preferences, I am able to select the SanDisk drive, "HOWEVER", when I press restart, I get this message..."Unable to set startup disk
An error occurred while setting “Untitled” as the startup disk: The operation couldn’t be completed. (SDErrorDomain error 108.)"
When I turn on my Mac Studio, while holding the power button for 30sec, I see both the Mac internal drive, and my external Sandisk drive, but I am NOT able to boot from it. Selecting the options logo puts me in recovery mode. I have already selected the Utilities Drop Down menu and selected "Startup Security Utility'', I have "Reduced Security" Checked off, "Allows any version of signed operating system software ever trusted by Apple to run"
Can you tell me how to set my Mac Studio to boot off of the SanDisk 4TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD without all these roadblocks....
Hi, have you turned off secure boot and allowed booting from an external or removable media?
Nice Video, When you boot to the external drive, do you have access to the internal drives? ( user folders?) also, do you have any direct links to older MAC OS?
Yes you can access the internal drives. And which older version you want?
Thanks for this tuto. Once MacOSx is on the external drive, is bootable and usable, is it possible to install this external drive as internal drive (into a minimac) ?
As far as I know, yes you can!
I remember now ... I did this back in 2013 on a i5 2011 Macbook Pro .. Good This Video Is Still Around ... Big Help To Remember .. OPTION lol .. totally forgot
Glad it helped!
Hello, I have a Macbook Pro 2019 with 250 GB internal, but I can't even install the software I need, I work on something that requires more. I would like to use my external solid drive as primary and I'm confirming whether to select AFPS or Extended Journaled. It would be to install OS X on that 1 TB SSD external device and also use it, not only to create the installation image. Do you know if I select Mac OS X Extended (journaled) again in that case?
Apfs
great video no info for AMD processors?
omg dude i wanna thank u soooooo much... love u
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Thanks for this. A question: if I upgrade the MacOS installed on the external SSD, would it still work on an unsupported device? e.g. Can Big Sur run on a 2013 iMac from an external SSD?
Watch this: th-cam.com/video/tpjfqxB0bME/w-d-xo.html
You can install the OpenCote bootloader to boot into unsupported macOS versions!
hello i have a question, since i downloaded the macos on an external hard drive and i'll be using it as my main drive, can i unplug the external hard drive?
I really didn't understand your question.
You are saying:
1- You have installed macOS on external drive. And you will be using it as your main OS.
2- Can you eject the external drive every now and then if you're not using it?
If yes, then yes you can do it. You will have to access the internal drive by pressing the options key while powering on your MacBook if you have setup your external drive as the startup drive in system preferences!
Hope it helps. if you wanted to ask something else, then please lmk!
Can i partion a hard drive with with one side bootcamp windows filesystem on it - and the other osx operating system at the same drive? (i.e two different OS, in one system?)
Yes you can, but first you must to format the whole drive before starting for it to work 😅 So, I would recommend you to install Windows first, then make a partition and install macOS on the other partition
Hi iMat.. I have a question.My current Mac does not go beyond Catalina 10.15.7. I cannot use MS Office 365 below version 11.0.0. So, the option here is to find MS Office 2010 for Mac or can I install Mohave with version 11 on external hard drive and use keep using my current laptop.
I am unable to understand your situation here! Tell me about your Mac model?
Good video man, I got a problem, I got installed macOS Monterrey on an external SSD Samsung t7, I use it with an iMac 2015, the thing is that from time to time it just stops working, and I need to force the shut-down, any idea why this is happening?
Have you tried using a different cable to connect your SSD?
Does the original data on the laptop get erased when doing this? I’m trying to download Mac OS onto my ssd to use for a different mac. Thank you
No the internal drive isn’t affected!
@@iMAT thank u!
Mine don't have that format.. Now what do I do?
Hey there, I installed the Update on my external but now I would like to remove it from my external and revert it back to a standard external hard drive with no update or start-up disk, how do I do this? Thanks so much!
You will have to format the drive to delete macOS from that drive!
Thanks for the video. I did the same steps, but using the internet. Everything is fine, but when it boots, the download stops on the apple logo, then it restarts automatically and stops again on the apple logo.
If you’re downloading the firmware file over internet in the recovery menu, then it will take longer to finish because it needs to download and verify the files! That’s why I prefer doing it this way!
My MacBook Pro has windows installed. I tried all of the OS but it just freezes on the install screen. Any idea how to get macOS back on my Mac?
You can do that using macOS recovery, but you might need to format your drive
@@iMAT I haven’t been able to do that. Won’t really let me. I uninstalled windows and tried usb boot. Doesn’t work
What is apfs format isn’t an option, only Mac OS extended or ExFAT
Use MacOS Extended (Journaled)
Thanks for your help!! Managed to get it up and running now, however I can’t select anything else on startup disk as external hardrive is the only thing that shows up for me.
That’s odd. Shut down your laptop. Then press the power button and immediately press the Options key and boot into your main drive. Then select your preferred disk as the startup disk!
@@iMAT it does the same thing, I think I might have received the laptop after someone has attempted to erase asif it were a windows laptop and erased the usual startup disk
Thanks for this vid! But can you please make a video for laptops that have windows and want to dualboot it with mac?
Are you talking about hackintosh?
@@iMAT yes
As far as i know you will need really specific laptops with sets of hardwares that are natively supported by macOS. If you don’t have that then you’re out of luck
Is there any way to do this from a windows PC to external hard drive?
You can try a Virtual Machine
@@iMAT would I need something like vmware and to install it on pc...? New to me. Thanks for reply
MacBook Air here, I erased my internal drive by accident have tried everything to get it to work. I tried installing macOS on an external drive using your steps and my download is still failing. What do I do? 😭
Hi Carly, you can send me a dm on Instagram. I’ll see what I can do to help
SCHEME option not showing in my early 2015
Hello, I installed MacOS Monterey on an external USB and formatted an external HDD 1tb to Guid scheme and MacOS extended. When I boot into the USB, I can’t select the the HDD. It says “The operation couldn’t be completed” and it’s grayed out. what could be the issue?
_Hey there, can you send me a short video on twitter?_
Can you isolate external drive from accessing files on internal?
Yes if you’re using the file encryption on your internal drive, you can’t access it until you unlock it with the password!
Does the age of the mac matter, or does it matter if its a macbook or imac? I hold the option key when the screen goes black and it doesn't do jack or jill....just boots up into my regular drive, WTF?
Which mac do you have?
@@iMAT An old IMAC from 2007....my bro is having a similar issue with an IMAC from 2012.
Cheers for replying, much appreciated 👍
Try this: *Turn on your Mac and continue to press and hold the power button as your Mac starts up. Release the power button when you see the startup options screen, which shows your startup disks and a gear icon labeled Options.*
@@iMAT Tried it, made an long aggressive beep, just one, then went to the regular boot up....don't wanna try it again, thought i broke it with that noise lol
Hi, thank you the video. I am running high sierra on a macbook pro 13 2015 and installed monterey on external disk, but without going into recovery mode, i just opened monterey install file on high sierra and chose external drive. Now some things, like the way the system boots up, and, I suspect, the way my audio drivers work, changed on high sierra. Is it because I didnt install the new system in recovery mode?
Confused you skipped the part about a bootable flash drive?
Hi, as I mentioned I have linked the video explaining how to create a bootable drive
@@iMAT there’s a software I had to download that basically did everything for me. So I got it. But to no prevail I can’t even play my games so was all for a waste 😂
I try and boot into the external drive but it fails every time and just goes back to the main drive help please
Did you ever fix it?
@@nathantinkler9144 nope.
@@skylinex4719 is the external drive larger than what's being used up on Mac hd?
@@nathantinkler9144 yes. External is 500 and internal is 128.
@@skylinex4719 perfect have you tried using carbon copy closer? I did the legacy bootable option and it booted up first time from the external drive
It’s not showing the external hard drive when I restart
Is it detected in macOS?
Sir can we talk i want some help i am form india
Yes sure?
Good 👍
Thanks
The external is locked when i try to download Mac OS
Did you set any password on it?
Slow your speech and eliminate the background music (?) which adds nothing to an already hard-to-understand, poorly enunciated presentation.
Slow your clicking through the menus; this is not a race, is it?
Hi, TH-cam has the option to adjust the speed of the video. You can use that
@@iMAT Thanks, I will have to check that feature.
Is not clear
Whats not clear ?
first comment
Thanks for being here :)
The external hard drive isn’t popping up when i restart only Macintosh
Hey there, mind sending me a video on instagram/twitter? Will reply soon.