If you have an 8GB USB key and you can download the Apple OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store, you can make your own bootable USB key. It's easier than you might think.

With Mac OS X Lion and a new piece of free software, it’s easier than ever to create a USB keychain that you can boot from.

Now that Apple has released OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you might want to consider creating a USB install drive for clean installs and future use.

This tutorial shows you how to create a bootable macOS Big Sur USB installer drive, which can be handy for performing fresh installs on your Mac.

The OS X 10.10 Yosemite installer from the Mac App Store in your Applications folder. The installer will delete itself when you install the operating system, but it can be re-downloaded if necessary.

Follow these steps to take to create a bootable USB installer drive for macOS Sierra to deploy version 10.12 of Apple's OS on supported devices.

On Monday Apple finally unveiled to the world the next iteration of OS X, Mavericks. A developer preview of the new operating system is available now as a Mac App Store download for registered ...

The partitions contain bootable installers with every OS X version from Tiger on up to El Capitan. It's great for troubleshooting or upgrading just about any Mac model I come across.

We’ve already covered how to do this from the command line (See How to create a bootable USB to install OS X), but I wanted to give those with a fear of the command line a way to do the same thing.