#Install disk creator vs diskmaker x mac os x

Reverting the installer’s name back to Install Mac OS X Lion.app allows Lion DiskMaker to use it. Also, if you’ve renamed the Lion installer-for example, I added (10.7.3) to the name of mine to indicate that it installs OS X 10.7.3-Lion DiskMaker will claim that the renamed app can’t be used to make a Lion-install drive. For one, if you wait too long to choose an option in any of Lion DiskMaker’s dialogs, you’ll get an AppleScript time-out error, and you’ll have to start the process over. On the other hand, Lion DiskMaker does have a few glitches. And the aesthetes out there will appreciate that the mounted drive is called “OS X Lion Install” and its window looks like that of an official installer, complete with the large OS X logo. For example, Lion DiskMaker places the installer’s Utilities folder at the root level of your bootable drive or disc for easier access to those utilities. Lion DiskMaker works well, and, in fact, creates a nicer bootable drive than you get by performing the procedure manually. Once you’ve selected the installer app or disk image, Lion DiskMaker proceeds as described above. Otherwise, Lion DiskMaker will let you manually navigate to the Lion installer app or-if you previously extracted the InstallESD.dmg file (the disk image containing the Lion installer data) from the installer app-to the installer image. What if you don’t have a copy of the Lion installer in /Applications? If you previously moved the Install Mac OS X Lion app to a different folder or drive, Lion DiskMaker may be able to find the installer on its own if so, you see a dialog box indicating that location, and you just click Use This Copy. You can boot your Mac from the new drive by rebooting while holding down the Option key when you see the OS X Startup Manager (the screen showing all bootable drives), choose the one with the Lion-installer icon. The process took around five minutes for me using an external USB drive. Finally, Lion DiskMaker displays a message that your bootable drive is ready. Instead, you’ll see a file named Copy in progress, please wait… Once this file disappears, Lion DiskMaker performs a few other tweaks, such as giving the disk a Lion-installer-volume icon. A Finder window with a name similar to E429CB27–52A4–42C8–849E–2486E7C3841A will appear, gradually populated by the Lion installer and the system files required to make the drive bootable. (A beta version, 1.7b1, of Lion DiskMaker allows you to use a partition on a multi-volume drive without affecting the other partitions.)Ĭlick Erase Then Create The Disk to proceed. But that warning also notes that if you’ve chosen a partition of a drive, the process will also erase all other partitions on that drive, as Lion DiskMaker will repartition the drive into a single volume. After doing so, you also see a big, scary warning that this procedure will of course erase the contents of the chosen volume. We'll see if the developer is up to the challenge or if the negative feedback cools his enthusiasm for the project.Choose Create A Boot Disk, and you’re prompted to choose a volume: a USB thumb drive, an external hard drive, or a partition on another drive. So three stars is all I can give it, do to the inadequate user interface. The best that can be said is that Install Disk Creator is a work in progress and has little or nothing to recommend it over DiskMaker X. It also does a lot better job explaining what's going on, which helps prevent mistakes. It sniffs out all and any installers on media in or connected to your computer, including external drives, which is where I happen to keep my installers. And it is functionally more complete as well.

In the meantime, DiskMaker X has plenty of cues and prompts. We can hope the developer takes the time to finish the app. In other words, this app is incomplete as far as user feedback is concerned. It has been mentiond 38 times since March 2021.

Which is a problem: function aside, there are not enough indicators showing what's going on, not even a 'finished' or 'done' button. Based on our record, DiskMaker X should be more popular than Install Disk Creator. In fact, it was so fast that I didn't know it was done. OK, I downloaded Install Disk Creator and it works just fine.

Install disk creator vs diskmaker x