How to Make a Bootable OS X Mavericks (10.9) USB Install Drive

Just like other recent major Mac updates, OS X Mavericks arrives as an app that wants to update the current OS X installation, and with a little work you can make a bootable USB installation drive. This allows you to easily perform partitioning for dual boot situations, clean installs, upgrades on multiple Macs, and more, plus it's just really convenient to have for troubleshooting and simple future installations, without having to re-download OS X 10.9 every time you want to install it or perform an upgrade.

But unlike before with creating prior version OS X boot install drives, the process is slightly different with Mavericks and requires an additional set of steps to make the installer actually function as a a bootable installer disk. It's not too complicated, just a bit more time consuming.

Before beginning, make sure the Mac you want to install Mavericks on meets the system requirements for 10.9. You will need OS X Mavericks (obviously), and an 8GB (or larger) USB drive that you don't mind formatting, we're using a USB thumb drive for the purpose of this walkthrough but an external hard drive should work as well.

Create a Bootable OS X 10.9 Mavericks Installer

• Download OS X Mavericks (get Developer Preview from Apple, devs only for now) but do not install it yet
• Attach the USB drive to the Mac and launch Disk Utility
• Choose the USB drive from the left side menu, click the "Partition" tab, select "1 Partition" from the drop down menu, and then click the "Options" button to select "GUID" as the partition type, click "OK" then click "Apply"
• Launch Terminal to show hidden files and relaunch the Finder using this defaults command string:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE;\killall Finder;\say Files Revealed

• Go to the /Applications/ folder to locate the "Install OS X 10.9 Developer Preview.app" file
• Right-click and choose "Show Package Contents", then open "Contents" and open "SharedSupport"



• Double-click to mount "InstallESD.dmg"
• Open the mounted 'OS X Install ESD' image, and right-click "BaseSystem.dmg" choosing "Open" to mount the image (BaseSystem.dmg is invisible by default, thus why invisible files must be made visible in the earlier step)



• Go back to Disk Utility, then select "BaseSystem.dmg" from the sidebar and then click the "Restore" tab
• With "Source" set to "BaseSystem.dmg", set "Destination" to the USB drive by dragging the USB drive into the box, then click "Restore" to begin – confirm that contents of the drive will be erased



• When finished, go to Finder and navigate within the newly created USB drive to System > Installation > and delete the file (alias) located here named "Packages" – keep this window open



• Go back to the 'OS X Install ESD' mounted drive, and drag & drop the "Packages" folder into the /System/Installation/ directory you just deleted the Packages alias from, let this large folder copy

Once that Packages folder is finished copying to the drive, the USB drive is now ready to be booted from which it can install OS X Mavericks from.

Booting from OS X Mavericks Install Drive

• With the USB drive attached, reboot the Mac and hold down the Option key
• Select the orange drive, labeled "OS X Base System 1″ from the boot menu
• Proceed with the installation as usual

HOW TO CHANGE THE DISPLAYED NAME OF THE PROCESSOR IN WINDOWS 7, XP, AND VISTA

Friends today we will learn how to change the processor name, this trick works in windows 7/vista and xp.

Just follow below simple steps.
Step One: Open up the Registry editor (RegEdit).
First, click Start, and search RegEdit (Windows 7/Vista). Open up regedit when the search has found it.

Step Two: On the left hand column in Registry Editor, open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, under it,
open up: Hardware->DESCRIPTION->System->CentralProcess or->1

Step Three: Now you can see a few lines of text on your right side in Registry Editor. Double-Click the one that is named "ProcessorNameString". A small box will pop-up, and you can change the processor's name to anything you like. After your done, press enter and close Registry Editor.

Step Four: Now we will see what we have changed under Windows.
Open Start, and Right-Click Computer, then click Properties in the Context Menu

Step Five: You can see your processor name changed to what ever you changed it to .

Troubleshooting: If the processor name did not change, Do step one, but on Step Two, instead of going into the number 1, go into number 0, and follow the rest of the Tutorial

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