

- #How to download mac os mojave to external hard drive how to#
- #How to download mac os mojave to external hard drive install#
Hold down the Option key when you hear the startup chime.
#How to download mac os mojave to external hard drive install#
Even If I could find a way of showing the Mojave Installer there, wouldn’t it install it on my iMac hard drive? (4) If I double-click the Mojave Installer icon on my screen, it first says it’s verifying and then informs me that this version of the Installer is too old to be opened. Connect the external drive to your Mac via the USB port.

(3) In Startup Disk in System Preferences only my iMac hard drive is shown. But when I click Install OS, it wants to reinstall Catalina on my iMac with no way of choosing a different OS or destination. This takes me straight to the Recovery screen and this time the cursor is not frozen. (2) Trying a different tack, I boot up holding down Command + R. I can navigate between the four options using the space bar but cannot click the Continue button as the cursor is still frozen. If I hit the space bar this gives way to the macOS Recovery screen. (1) If I turn on the computer while holding down the Option key, I first get what looks like a line drawing of a mouse alternating with a line drawing of something else, and the cursor is frozen in the top left-hand corner of the screen.
#How to download mac os mojave to external hard drive how to#
Its icon on the screen now also shows as My Book Mojave. Do you wish to partition Mac but can’t find a feasible solution Read on and learn how to partition a hard drive on Mac by following this step by step tutorial. And I have erased the content of the WD and renamed it My Book Mojave. It is on a flash drive which has changed its name to Install macOS Mojave. Put the macOS Mojave installer on an external USB thumb drive or hard drive and use it to install the operating system on a Mac.Put the macOS Mojave installer on an external USB thumb drive or hard. I have successfully created a bootable Mojave installer. While retaining Catalina on the iMac, I want to install Mojave on the WD so that I can use software which is not Catalina-compatible. I use the G-Drive in conjunction with Time Machine so everything on the iMac is safely backed up. and two external hard drives: a G-Drive mobile and a WD My Book. In this tab, and click choose existing hard disk. Goto Settings of the macOS machine then Storage and click on the add virtual disk button. Bootloader Update Image: This will fix the stuck on the black screen with a simple step. I have: an iMac running Catalina 10.15.2. Just switch off the Mac and download the following file.
