
NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here.

The default ist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky.

A browser download manager (eg Chrono for Chrome, dTA for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is >4GB -> allows you to pause/resume interrupted download.Ģ) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmgĬlover configuration is required now. To a folder named "SharedSupport" on your Windows NTFS drive. (Hint - search page for "InstallESD" to find its URL and others nearby) Boot Disk Utility vrev021b from TransMac (free 15 day trial)ĭownload Installer Files Directly from Appleġ) Browse Apple's Regular Software Catalog and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files.Edit: Recommend 16GB or larger for macOS Catalina 10.16 link to Apple's Software Catalog provides us with all the URLs necessary to download the needed files directly from Apple instead of some dubious source from the internet.ĨGB or larger USB drive. This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded "Install macOS High Sierra.app" from a real Mac ). However, the file system is not supported by many older systems.Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows In theory, data capacity of up to 2 TB is possible, but Microsoft has limited the partition size in newer systems to 32 GB in order to promote the modern NFTS format.ĮxFAT is a further development of FAT that in principle offers unattainable storage and data capacity. The maximum data size is limited to 4 GB in the latest version FAT32.

It is not supported by many applications.įAT is a file system developed by Microsoft that is also supported by Linux and macOS. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with the addition that the file system can differentiate between upper and lower case (e.g. HFS+ or Mac OS Extended (case-sensitive and journaled) Windows/Linux devices are only able to read but not write on USB sticks in this format. A file system developed by Apple that is particularly suited to data media with large memory capacity.
