Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Bootable USB Tutorial (2023)

[@michaelm6682]

Thank you very much for this well produced video. Very simple, direct and helpful. Excellent work Sir.

[@kikito1]

I've spent days on this already. Then I found your video. Works perfectly. What a life saver. Can now resurrect several old iMacs to become productive devices once again.

[@Kris_Kukutis]

I was trying to get my Mac Pro 4,1 working with a newer is (currently on snow leopard) and this is the only tutorial that’s worked. Thanks!

[@danielsolomon63]

Worked like a charm! Thank you!

[@jhonjhon1740]

Thank you so much. Been fighting with this old iMac8,1 for a while now but your tutorial worked great. Straight to the point, said how to do what needed to be done without excess to get a longer run time, and just worked, You earned yourself a new subscriber. Thank you.

[@cooperschwartz318]

My 2009 MBP was running 10.8 and so I had to transfer the file multiple times between it and a windows laptop to format the drive, unzip the file, and whatnot, still works, thank you very much

[@luciano.3ccd]

It seems that mavericks is a hard mac os to install nowadays, tried to do it on my own and i couldnt, then i found this video. This video is perfect, just what i was looking for, i really thank you for this, dont stop uploading!!

[@Shneepster]

This is a work in process, at the moment, downloading the zip file which is taking a long time. But, what I will say, is having watched this in its entirety, I am hopeful I can now get the OS X Maricks system re-installed on my older macbook. Everything you said makes sense, and great examples of how you did it. This is great, because there is a lot of “crap” out there and advice that just isn’t working. Thanks for being clear, and to the point!

[@techintoshppc]

Glad I could help!

[@AchixBeCool]

Thanks! very useful video!

[@disaar3679]

Fialled to restore, got the unarchiver, failed to restore. I guess I'm screwed.

[@mahmoudsuze]

Your explanation is excellent, my friend. Keep up these excellent videos

[@Pennedhaus]

Hey there thanks for this helping Video - no matter what I do im getting this "Could not validate sizes - Operation not permitted" message when i try to restore the drive followed some instructions in the comment section but still no luck - would be glad to get an answer much love

[@rumenjanro]

I get the error "Could not validate sizes - Operation not permitted" when I try restoring.

[@Sopmf]

Use a zip extracter

[@Kris_Kukutis]

You can just mount the disk image and drag everything into your usb (make sure to transfer the invisible files too)

[@Kps-gd3nn]

​@Stulbibas_ar_patriku would you mind explaining that please? I keep getting stuck at this step and don't how else to 'restore' the content. Thanks in advance!

[@Kps-gd3nn]

Hey, did you figure a way around this? I'm stuck at this step. Thanks.

[@smshahalol]

So when you say to replace the old packages file with the new one at 8:00, it just says "The operation can't be completed because one or more required items can't be found. (Error code -43)" Do you have any ideas why it won't let me move it?

[@Desmond-TV-RETROGAMER47776]

You should make a new video.

[@brianschumacher8956]

It worked perfect thanks! Do you think if I made an image from the USB I could burn to a DVD for a bootable install disc?

[@techintoshppc]

I don't see why not!

[@bankshot9172]

NO WAY TECHINTOSH UPLOADED A NEW VIDEO

[@techintoshppc]

I didn't know anybody was even subscribed to this channel 😂Good to see some old faces though!

[@sicmr]

didnt work on my m2 macbook pro but it did work on my 2012 retina macbook pro on catalina! thanks.

[@FlipAmbigram]

It didn’t work on your m2 macbook because you have an M2 chip, OSX Mavericks only supports Intel processors.

[@sicmr]

@@FlipAmbigram not what i meant. I meant the RESTORE process. Not the install. Obviously i know that the install is not going to work on a newer macbook than the os.

[@jean_ibf]

Hi, every time I got to the restore the operation fails. I'm using a 128GB USB device

[@techintoshppc]

Make sure you are clicking on the partition and not on the drive.

[@talaltaha5690]

same here , i am sure am clicking on the partition@@techintoshppc error said couldn't validate sizes/ operation not permitted

[@techintoshppc]

@@talaltaha5690 Maybe give this a try: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/389569/could-not-validate-sizes-operation-not-permitted-the-operation-couldn-t-be-co

[@droxymaine201]

I'm probably the one guy who failed right out the gate. The zip drive failed to even open. I received a prompt saying - [Unable to expand "Install OS X Mavericks.app.zip". It is an unsupported format.]. I'm currently on Catalina and wish to God I never went there. Is there any hope left for me?

[@techintoshppc]

@@droxymaine201 Some versions of OS X don’t like to unzip the file. I would recommend using The Unarchiver to extract it. It can be downloaded from the App Store or their website.

[@droxymaine201]

@@techintoshppc Actually I redownloaded and it opened, but a new problem arose. Upon installing I got the error message(OSStatus error 1) that states it could not validate sizes - Operation not permitted. Downloading Catalina ruined my Mac. They discontinued iTunes so my music is gone, with all my CD library burned in, and also IPhoto which deleted all my photos[!]. I still have my Time Machine but can't even get to it. DO I still have any hope?

[@OshayTheGreat]

For my usb I don’t see scheme option

[@techintoshppc]

If you are using the pre-10.11 disk utility, when using the erase function with OS X Extended (Journaled), the default scheme should be GUID.

[@OakBlox]

fun fact: if the original os your mac ran was mavericks, simply boot into recovery mode and erase the storage device containing the current macos installation. this will make the computer automatically reset back to its original software.

[@mzzlmynizzl]

how exactly can you explain a bit better ? mine came originally with mountain lion so ?

[@OakBlox]

@@mzzlmynizzl this will make you lose all your info on other partitions. if you want to keep it, just use option command r or shift option command r i forgot which one to use original firmware its on crapples website.

[@oli12399a]

it says restore process has failed on disk utility

[@ScootDaVoot]

same

[@lukedavis436]

Same here, I'm using a 2013 Retina A1398 running MoJave However I didn't have a partition only the disc

[@mahmoudsuze]

But please, is it safe for us to download these copies of the old Macintosh onto our devices without infecting the device with viruses?

[@techintoshppc]

The Internet Archive is a pretty trustworthy website and I have found the installer to be legit.

[@VR25LLYT]

When I put in the drive, it gave me X

[@OakBlox]

do not use that internet archive page, use another installer download, the zip archive on that one will not extract properly

[@techintoshppc]

For some reason, the older OS X builds archive utility doesn't like the file. I recommend unzipping it with The Unarchiver.

[@qiuyaxu]

感謝