- Joined
- May 21, 2012
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH
- CPU
- i7-3770K
- Graphics
- GTX 460 TI + GTX 660 Ti
- Mac
Last week I looked for a free USB flash drive but all of the ones I own are in use. The latest download from Apple of Mountain Lion is a full version of 10.8.3 and I wanted to play with a fresh start on a different SSD. I have a number of class 10 16 gig SD cards that are not in use so I played with various SD card USB holders. One of them, the Kingston TravelLite SD/MMC Reader worked!
By that I mean I used Unibeast to make a start disk on a class 10 SD card, plugged it into the Gigabyte motherboard and restarted. The darned thing started off an SD card! I learned the trick when setting up Windows 8 using the Microsoft USB utility to load the OS onto a flash drive. (that also worked).
I installed ML 10.8.3 off the SD card then setup using Multibeast. Perfect install.
Long story short I can keep a library of OS's to install on SD cards! I have 6 different OSes and this is a breakthrough for me.
I ordered 2 more of these card reads from Amazon - just in case.
Funny thing, the TravelLite came with a Kingston SD deal.
By that I mean I used Unibeast to make a start disk on a class 10 SD card, plugged it into the Gigabyte motherboard and restarted. The darned thing started off an SD card! I learned the trick when setting up Windows 8 using the Microsoft USB utility to load the OS onto a flash drive. (that also worked).
I installed ML 10.8.3 off the SD card then setup using Multibeast. Perfect install.
Long story short I can keep a library of OS's to install on SD cards! I have 6 different OSes and this is a breakthrough for me.
I ordered 2 more of these card reads from Amazon - just in case.
Funny thing, the TravelLite came with a Kingston SD deal.