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hey guys austin and stay mute the tutorial on how to make an OS 10.8 mountain lion install drive or DVD this can be helpful for several reasons you might have multiple macs to upgrade or want a quick way to install mountain lion without having to download the entire OS apple will most likely make a 10.8 restore drive however why spend $7 or more when you can make one yourself first step is to buy mountain lion in the App Store if you've already got mountain lion on your Apple account you can go over to the purchase tab and download it from here once it's downloaded the Installer will automatically pop up instead of running it just close it open up your Applications folder and find the mountain lion installer right-click it and select show package contents then go into contents and finally shared support you should see Install ESD GMG here now open up Disk Utility grab the dmg and drag it into the sidebar now you can either make a disc or a USB Drive if you want to create a restore DVD all you need to do is select the dmg and click burn on the other hand if you're wanting to install it on a USB Drive you have a couple of options this will work on any USB Drive that has at least 5 gigabytes of storage free however you can do it a couple different ways I'll be using a SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 Drive for this tutorial and I do recommend that if you have a newer Mac with USB 3 to use a drive like this as it's much faster once you've plugged your USB Drive into your Mac we're ready to go if you only want to use this Drive for mountain lion you can skip ahead if you'd like to also put other data on the drives you'll need to partition it select your drive and navigate to the partition tab select two partitions then choose mac OS extended journaled for the format and name it whatever you like then select five gigabytes as the partition size for the other partition you can format this however you like but keep in mind that any data you have on it will be a race now once you're all set hit apply and give it a minute now let's finish up click on the mountain lion dmg and click open to mount it a window will open but just close that now select the partition on your USB Drive and drag the Mac os10 installed over to the destination then click restore and then erase depending on your drive this could take quite a while but once it's done you're good to go now anytime you want to install OS 10 simply insert the driver disk into your Mac and hold option while booting you should see a recovery part tincho up select it and then install mountain lion anyway guys if you enjoyed this tutorial definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe