Creating Boot Flash Drive With ML 10.8.4

I built two Hackintoshes and on one of them the boot flash drive took a dump on me. So I went to create a new one and notice that there is a ML update to 10.8.4, and I download it and try and make boot flash drive using unibeast 1.7.0. It will not work for me. The process hangs up and pretty times out and gives an error and says that it was not successful. Does anyone no of a way to make a boot flash drive using 10.8.4?

Kingdombuilder said:

I built two Hackintoshes and on one of them the boot flash drive took a dump on me. So I went to create a new one and notice that there is a ML update to 10.8.4, and I download it and try and make boot flash drive using unibeast 1.7.0. It will not work for me. The process hangs up and pretty times out and gives an error and says that it was not successful. Does anyone no of a way to make a boot flash drive using 10.8.4?

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I had same problem with a USB drive I was using. Try using terminal to erase your USB flash drive and select the option to write 1 pass zeros. Then reformat/partition the USB and run the UniBeast app again.

Is there a tutorial somewhere that will show me how to do this? Can I buy another 8gb Flash drive instead? Or does the flash drive need the 1 Pass in order to work with 10.8.4?

I am also having problems creating a new bootable USB drive for Mountain Lion using Unibeast 1.7.0
I can't seem to get pass this screen:

Kingdombuilder said:

Is there a tutorial somewhere that will show me how to do this? Can I buy another 8gb Flash drive instead? Or does the flash drive need the 1 Pass in order to work with 10.8.4?

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You can always buy another flash drive.

The write 1 pass zeros essentially takes a flash memory USB back to a new purchased state. When you store files on a flash drive, the system always writes to empty "cells". When you delete something, the data is not actually deleted, only the index entry. When the drive finally is full, the system has to first find "cells" that are not in the index as used, erase them, and then write new data. This slows the process down, which is why earlier SSD's slowed down so much when they first came out. Trim and garbage collection implemented on the new SSDs help with this problem, but flash drive don't have it.

So, if you want to clean a well used flash USB, wipe it back to blank state by writing zeros to all of the cells on the USB.

If you just want a boot flash drive, use the stand alone Chimera installer pointed at the flash drive. Then copy your /Extra folder to the USB. A 512Mb or 1Gb USB is plenty large enough for this.

I decided to format my SSD in disk utility. Then reinstalled the Mountain Lion OSX through the USB flash drive. My disk is clean now with no sign of sector errors. But with the reinstallation, all my personal files were quickly backed up in an external HDD