Rufus is the most powerful application to flash a BIOS and UEFI bootable devices. But sometimes Rufus won’t work steady, so it’s better to know more about the Rufus alternatives for Mac OS. Rufus has features like it creates bootable USB drive from ISOs, checks the bad blocks and much more.
The problem MacBook hard drive crashed and is ruined. I need to work on a music assignment on a program only available for Mac OS X and Ubuntu, and will not be able to get a new hard drive for the Mac before the assignment is due. I only have non-administrator access to Windows XP and 7 computers. My question Can I make a USB drive with Ubuntu on it so I can use my MacBook with this?
Can I create this from a Windows computer? Please give detailed steps, if possible, for I am a noob when it comes to computers, and especially Linux.
I have an 8-Gb flash drive available. According to: Intel-based Macs support starting from an external USB storage device's volume that:. Has been formatted with a GUID partition type. Contains an installation of Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later, or Mac OS X 10.5 or later, which is compatible with (or shipped with) the Mac that the USB device is connected to. Note: You should not use a version of Mac OS X that is earlier ('older') than the version your Mac shipped with.
So booting from a Live USB of Ubuntu with a Mac is not officially supported. You may, however, try the steps described (no guarantees!), or alternatively, just boot from a Live CD.
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Not having administrative access on the PC does take some of the more user-friendly programs out of the equation (e.g. However, after poking around I stumbled across an option that might work: XBOOT. Pendrivelinux has a guide, but the major steps are this:. Download the and unzip the application. Plug in USB Drive. Drag the into the program.
Select 'Create USB' and choose your drive edit: I just finished testing the program and it successfully created a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive when I ran it on my Windows box (Windows 8.1), without asking for administrative access.