The installation of macOS Mojave 10.14 on an external hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) is quite simple and straightforward. Most importantly, it doesn’t damage your PC or current Windows installation if you carefully follow the instructions in this video. To assist you better, we have also added a video guide at the end. So all you have to do is follow the steps mentioned below to install the latest macOS Mojave release on any external SSD or portable hard drive.
Steps to install macOS Mojave on External Drive
Steps to install macOS Mojave on External DriveStep 1: Things You Need
While your Mac is starting up, press the Option key continuously to enter the Boot menu. Once the Boot menu appears, use the arrow keys to select macOS Mojave USB installer. Format your SSD drive using Disk Utility. Agree to the Terms and Conditions and proceed by selecting your newly formatted SSD drive. Paint for mac os sierra. Your Mac will start to reboot. Make sure the external hard drive or SSD does not contain any data as we will be formatting it. If it contains any data, backup it. The same goes for the USB 3.0 8GB stick. Step 2: Prepare macOS Mojave Installer. Open App store on a Mac or Hackintosh and download Mojave Installer (It’s Free) Open Disk Utility and connect the USB 3.0 8GB flash.
Before You Begin
Make sure the external hard drive or SSD does not contain any data as we will be formatting it. If it contains any data, backup it. The same goes for the USB 3.0 8GB stick.
Step 2: Prepare macOS Mojave Installer
Ssd For Macbook ProStep 3: Installing macOS Mojave![]()
Format New Ssd
Voila! At this stage, you have successfully installed macOS Mojave on an external drive. To boot macOS, you can either use Boot Option key or set the drive as default drive via Boot Priority order in BIOS.
Watch this step-by-step Video TutorialWrap Up
I hope this guide has been helpful in guiding you installation of macOS Mojave on an external hard drive or SSD. you can use Any hard drive, however, we would highly recommend you to get an SSD at least 128GB available for just 000000 and enclose it under an HDD enclosure. You can also opt for M.2 SSD which looks like a giant USB thumb drive with USB C Type port. here’s what we use. This is the best combination, small, light, and highly portable. You can buy an M.2 SSD at the same price and enclosure for Just under 10 USD using this link.
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macOS Mojave 10.14.3 is released and most Apple users have already upgraded their Macs. Many Mac and Hackintosh users are looking for a way to install macOS Mojave with HFS+ and avoid APFS conversion during installation on macOS Mojave.
The problem is, unlick High Sierra, the command used to avoid APFS conversion, –converttoapfs isn’t a recognized option in startosinstall
And therefore, in order to avoid APFS conversion, you need to find out an alternative way . Through a little research and common sense, I was able to install macOS Mojave on an HFS+ drive and prevented APFS conversion on my SSD. Interestingly, there are two distinct different ways to install macOS Mojave without APFS conversion and we have discussed each with step by step instruction and screenshots. Video guide will be uploaded soon.
Apple Mac users can also use these methods to avoid APFS conversion and install macOS Mojave 10.14 on HFS+ (macOS Journaled Partition).
Method 1: During macOS Mojave Installation
Both Apple users and Hackintosh users can use this method to prevent APFS conversion during macOS Mojave 10.14 installation. It’s easy and doesn’t take much time. However, you need to create a macOS installer media. Upgrading directly from macOS installer downloaded from App Store is not possible.
So visit this post and create a macOS Mojave installer media,
Before you proceed, please backup all your data using Time Machine backup or Carbon Copy Cloner app.
If you face any issue, comment down below and we will get back to you ASAP with the right solution.
Method 2: After macOS Mojave Installation
This is one of the easiest but messy process, which required an external drive (SSD or HDD). In this method, you will be installing macOS Mojave 10.14 normally using USB installer with APFS file system but on the external hard drive or SSD. You can read this post on How to install macOS on external drive for more details. After installing Mojave, follow these instructions.
Now disconnect external drive and reboot system normally. Go to About Mac>System information and check the file system of your internal drive. You can also use Disk Utility to check the File System that must be HFS+.
So that’s how you avoid APFS conversion of your SSD, fusion drives, hybrid drives, and hard drive during and after macOS Mojave installation.
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