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I have a rescued 2013 MacBook Air with a broken screen backlight due to a beverage spill and missing its internal SSD. I don't yet have any OS installed on it. I have access only to (32 bit) Windows PCs otherwise.

I believe there are bootable live USBs these days like we used to use live CDs back in the day. For a Mac live USB stick I'm not sure what partitioning / formatting / filesystem is needed for it to be bootable by Mac firmware. Thus I'm not sure if or how I can create one using a Windows box.

Existing questions that I originally thought were identical are about creating a USB key from an Intel machine running Linux. I currently don't have Linux on any of my Intel machines, all are running only Windows. Thus it appears mine is a novel question here.

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  • Why couldn't I find the previous question in either Superuser search or Google until I posted it? (-:
    – hippietrail
    Apr 28, 2016 at 7:21
  • Could be how you worded it? The system did not recognize how you typed it possibly.
    – NetworkKingPin
    Apr 28, 2016 at 7:23
  • Actually the existing question is about using a Wintel Linux box while I don't currently have any box running Linux, I only have Windows boxes right now. I think this is clear without editing the question text. Regretting closevoting myself now (-:
    – hippietrail
    Apr 28, 2016 at 7:24
  • Use this Unetbootin It will allow you to make a bootable linux usb on Windows,Linux or Mac.
    – NetworkKingPin
    Apr 28, 2016 at 7:26
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    Apr 29, 2016 at 5:23

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Rufus works very well to create these installers. You can get it from https://rufus.akeo.ie/

From the site It can be especially useful for cases where:

you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.) you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS you want to run a low-level utility

and you dont need to install it

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Universal-USB-Installer

Freewere. works on windows very well to make many types of bootable drives. Windows, Linux, Mac. SImple to use. small file. try it.

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  • Software recommendations as answers are frowned upon here, a better site to recommend software is...softwarerecs.stackexchange.com
    – Moab
    Apr 28, 2016 at 15:49
  • @Moab OP asked for a solution. I didn't knew people don't like software recommendation here. I won't delete the answer. maybe that would help the OP. Everything is software opensource or not. why not mention it.
    – Abdul Rehman
    Apr 28, 2016 at 17:34
  • Software recommendations on SU should be comments. Yes you can make them answers but usually don't get much rep for it.
    – Moab
    Apr 28, 2016 at 18:35
  • I see you use software recommendations heavily in your answers. nvm. Have a good day
    – Abdul Rehman
    Apr 28, 2016 at 20:13
  • When the only answer to a quesion is using 3rd party software, the question or the answer does not belong here on SU.
    – Moab
    Apr 28, 2016 at 23:37

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