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Enzozo
Jul 29, 2024Iron Contributor
Need help to burn dmg to usb for making Mac bootable USB drive
My wife's MacBook Air was stuck on system update after reboot and can't get into the desktop. Unfortunately, this is the only Apple device at our home. I need to make a bootable USB on my Windows 11 ...
Amiriam
Jul 30, 2024Iron Contributor
7-Zip can extract DMG files, but it doesn’t handle creating a bootable USB drive from them. This means you can get the contents out of the DMG, but making that USB drive bootable requires more steps and may not work seamlessly. So, you might end up with a USB that has files but isn’t actually bootable on a Mac.