How to write a USB stick with macOS. UNetbootin for Mac OS X can be used to automate the process of extracting the Ubuntu ISO file to USB, and making the USB drive bootable. The resulting USB drive, however, can be booted on PCs only. If attempting to make a USB drive that can be booted from a Mac, follow the instructions below.

Using a Bootable Live USB means that you don't need to burn a CD or DVD to do this, which is useful if you don't have any blank CDs or DVDs laying around or your computer doesn't have an optical drive. If you would instead like to create a Live CD/DVD click. Requirements You will need a USB Stick/Flash Drive with a minimum 2GB of free space, if you do not already have one please see the links below: Options for creating a Live USB • - (Ubuntu Only) • - (Ubuntu, Windows & Mac OS) If you are using Ubuntu you should have a program called 'Startup Disk Creator' installed that will enable you to create a Live USB from a CD or an ISO disk image e.g. • Launch the Startup Disk Creator from the application menu/Dash: or run the following command in the terminal ( Ctrl+ Alt+ t): usb-creator-gtk • Select the source CD/Image, click 'Other.' To browse for the file.

Navigate to your source image and select 'Open'. • Make sure you have connected and selected your USB stick with a minimum 2GB of free space, then click 'Make Startup Disk' UNetbootin runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux.iso file if you've already downloaded one.

To format a hard drive means to delete any information on the drive and to set up a file system so your operating system can read data from, and write data to, the drive. As complicated as that might sound, it's not really difficult to format a hard drive in any version of Windows. If you have a Mac lying around, you can plug the drive into a Mac and back up the files. If you only have Windows systems available, you can use HFSExplorer to copy files from the drive onto your Windows system drive or another drive. I want to reformat a mac hard drive for windows.

• First of all you will need to install UNetBootin on to your machine. If you are using a PC or Mac: Download the software installer from.