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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.

hippietrail
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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.

fixer1234
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Abdul Rehman
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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

Shiva Shankar
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