Once you have done this click the Continue button and follow the rest of the on-screen instructions. Quickly go through the Introduction, Read Me and License pages and when you get to the Destination Select page you will need to select the USB drive you have been partitioning in the previous steps. Step 5) – You will now need to launch UniBeast, the application that you downloaded in step 2. Finally click Apply and then click the Partition button. Additionally, look underneath Format header and ensure that Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) is selected. Step 4) – Now select Options underneath the Partition Layout menu and ensure that the Master Boot Record option is checked. With Disk Utility open click on your USB drive, and from the Current drop down menu choose the 1 Partition option. Plug in your formatted USB drive into your computer, launch Finder and navigate to /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Step 3) – With the required files downloaded you will begin the process of creating a bootable Mountain Lion USB Drive. You will need to register on the website to be able to download the program (it is free). Step 2) – Next you will need to download a program called UniBeast, which is available from a website called TonyMacx86. Step 1) – The first thing you will need to do is purchase and download OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store (direct link). While we are on the topic of USB drives you will need a formatted one with a capacity of at least 8GB. What if you don’t have a Mac computer however, but a Windows computer and still want to take advantage of Mountain Lion? Well, luckily for you there is a fairly simple process that will allow you to build a Hackintosh computer based off Mountain Lion.īefore we explain the process of creating an OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Hackintosh you will need to make sure that you can get access to a Mac computer so that you can purchase/download OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and create a UniBeast USB drive. Since Mountain Lion’s release we have covered numerous aspects of the new OS like completing a fresh install of Mountain Lion, and for those of you that are on the fence of updating, 10 reasons why you should update. With the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion comes over 200 new features to your Mac computer.

Macos 10.8 installer