Also, when you erase, you won't see the 'Scheme' menu unless the view is 'All Devices.' 'GUID Partition Map' (the one you want) is probably the default Scheme, but you won't know for sure, if you can't see it. Here, just to be safe, make sure 'View' is set to 'Show All Devices' and select the actual disk for erasure, not just the volume on the disk. Make a bootable flash drive in Disk Utility.You want to do this so that when you copy over the EFI folder from your hackintosh to the flash drive (step 5), the version will match with what you will have already installed on the flash drive. I added this to the beginning to simplify things later. Download and update your hackintosh to the latest Clover version.I discovered a couple of things, so I'm going to outline the steps here again, with more detail: Basically, the steps I outlined above did it. I have a bootable Recovery flash drive that matches my hackintosh config exactly.

Maybe copy the folder from the root of my current recovery partition to the root of the flash drive (make it a true recovery disk)Īm I missing anything? Can it be that simple?Īlright, well, I just spent an hour and some trying it out, and it worked.Copy everything in my hackintosh's EFI partition into the flash drive's EFI partition, overwriting whatever is in there.Get Clover installed onto flash drive (pretty sure I can find that info, too).Make a bootable flash drive in Disk Utility (same process as all the usual install guides).It's not immediately obvious to me how to do this, though. However, now that I'm looking to recreate the flash drive, it occurs to me that I would like it to boot just like my current hackintosh does (same Clover settings, etc.), for maximum compatibility with my hardware. Obviously, I did do that successfully a while back - that was my missing flash drive. I've searched and found lots of info on creating a bootable flash drive for the purposes of installing macOS. My boot USB flash drive has gone missing. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide

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