mac-transition-to-apple-silicon-everything-you-need-to-know-updated/ Internet Recovery is DEAD on Apple Silicon. If you are looking for more information on Apple Silicon Macs, I’ve wrote an article going over everything you need to know. I will show you 3 different ways to reinstall macOS Big Sur on a Apple Silicon Mac. All the old rules that you had to follow with Intel Macs has now changed. One of the first things we need to understand is how to reinstall or factory erase macOS on Apple Silicon. I will show you everything you need to know.Īpple Silicon Macs started to arrive in customers hands on Tuesday November 17th, 2020. – Everything you need to know!! Apple Silicon M1 Mac Recovery has changed! The interface, options and the way you reinstall macOS is all new.

Leave the rest of the options as default and hit the START button.How to Reinstall macOS on your Apple Silicon Mac.

Tick Windows To Go in the advanced format option, this is an important step, otherwise, Rufus will create a bootable flash drive for standard Windows installation on hard disk.

Select the Windows Disk Image iso file from the Boot Selection option.

Launch Rufus application, locate USB Flash Drive from the Device drop-down list.

Transfer the Windows Disk Image from your MacBook to Windows machine via the USB Flash Drive or the USB thumb drive.

Step 3 Create the USB bootable flash drive

Boot Camp Assist, it comes with macOS and we use it to download the Windows support software that needs to be installed in your Windows workspace.

Rufus, the Windows software to creates a bootable USB flash drive.

A Windows Disk Image, you can use your MacBook to download one from the Microsoft Windows Disk Image Download page.

A fast USB Flash Drive with at least 64GB storage ( I am using a SanDisk Ultra Fit 128GB).

A machine running Windows 7 or later (You can use Virtual Machines if you does not have one).In this article, I am going to introduce another solution to install your Windows workspace in an external drive by leveraging the Windows To Go feature, so you can use Windows in your MacBook without installing any additional software or guest OS on it. I am not a fan of these two as either solution will consume a certain amount of my precious SSD. The most common ways of using Windows in MacBook are either having a Virtual Windows Machine or installing a guest OS on top of your MacBook via the Boot Camp Assistant. However, there are times when we need to use Windows OS for tasks that cannot be completed with macOS, like using Windows-only software and playing PC games. We all love MacBooks, the macOS is fast, highly optimized for the hardware and constantly updated by Apple.

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