Install Disk Creator

Name: Install Disk Creator
Rating: 4.0357 (5 reviews)

1.4

19 December 2018

Create a bootable OS X installer.

Overview

Install Disk Creator turns a USB stick or other media into a bootable macOS installer. This is useful for doing a clean install (which is recommendable to do every 6 months or so), or for keeping a reusable installer handy to use on other machines.

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Version 1.4:

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chasjunk

27 September 2018

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This developer recommends (in the description above) that you should reinstall your system every six months or so. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA It's hard to take the product seriously (or trust the developer) when such farcical Windows-centric thinking is present. Macs don't need to be REINSTALLED every six months, that's simply ludicrous.

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Version 1.3

I KNOW its free and a really GREAT app BUT Catalina has been out both in ß and final version for a long time. As a premier app, we REALLY need a Catalina specific version, PLEASE

Version 1.4

Im a software tester myself, and agree that there should be some sort of progress bar. I made my own progress bar, kinda, by doing a get info on the installer as it was being built. You can see the size continue to increase over time. Maybe the dev can build a progress bar from that. Thanks

Version 1.4

What Apple obfuscates and makes difficult, great devs make simple. Thank you. Everyone, please chip in when you can!

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Version 1.4

This app is a butt saver! As an active beta tester I cannot count the times that I have used this marvelous app to create installers that I store on Flash Drives and always have available when that moment arrives and you have an emergency and must reinstall your system. There is no need for an Internet connection for the reinstall incase your Wifi has crashed or is simply not available. As far as periodic reinstall issues as scorned by chasjunk in his review it IS a good idea every few months reinstall. Periodically there are small corruptions in the OS that cause little irritations that are near impossible to isolate. There are apps that sometimes do not get along with others that even after uninstalling leave issues and a new OS reinstall will often correct. By the way if you have an installer on a Flash Drive with3.0 speed capabilities it is faster than going to online recovery!

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Version 1.3

chasjunk

27 September 2018

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Version 1.3

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lkrupp215

09 October 2019

I haven’t done a clean install in over 6 years on my 2013 iMac 14,2. The recommendation is absurd.

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Version 1.4

Dominikhoffmann

01 August 2017

I don’t know, how hard it would be to do, but it would be nice to see a progress bar and a prognosis, as to how long the process has left to finish the job.

Version 1.21

1 answer(s)

Mac OS X File Recovery

25 September 2017

This is now fixed in the update

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Timmyb

01 July 2017

Seems to work. Created an 8GB USB install disk of 10.12.5 running from 10.12.5. As others have mentioned I saw no progress indicators during the creation process, there was a dialog to tell us that the process was complete. I didn't actually use the created disk to install an OIS, but I did test boot the disks.

Version 1.21

1 answer(s)

Mac OS X File Recovery

25 September 2017

This was probably related to your internet connection. Giving in one star for this does not seem reasonable.

Does this thing even work? I tried it, but there was no way of knowing how long it was going to take to complete the Sierra install image on my USB stick. It's as though the developer skipped the user experience part when they wrote this app. In the trash it goes!

Version 1.21

1 answer(s)

Mac OS X File Recovery

11 April 2017

It does provide a progress bar to show progress. Considering that the command itself does not show any output whatsoever, this was exceedingly hard to implement, and it is the only implementation of this which even attempts to provide user feedback for progress.

If it did not work for you at the time that you tried it, contacting me via the MacDaddy website with steps to reproduce it would go a long way to helping me fix it so that other's can avoid the same issue in the future.

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