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Drag the formatted partition to the “Destination” section, then click on “Restore”.Drag the previously mounted “Mac OS X Install ESD” image into the “Source” section.Now select the formatted USB drive from the left side and click on the “Restore” tab.Select the USB drive from the left menu and click on “Erase” tab, choose “Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)” as the format, then click on the “Erase” button in the corner.Launch Disk utility and connect a USB drive to the Mac.Make the OS X Mountain Lion Install Drive Double-click on InstallESD.dmg to mount it on the desktop.Open the “Contents” directory and then open “SharedSupport”, looking for a file named “InstallESD.dmg”.Go to the /Applications/ directory and right-click on “Install Mac OS X Mountain Lion.app” selecting “Show Package Contents”.

Download OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from the App Store.

Download OS X Mountain Lion and Extract the DMG File If you already have the Mac OS X Mountain Lion install DMG extracted, skip this first set of steps and jump directly to making the bootable drive below. We’ll walk through the process here, but don’t forget to check OS X 10.8 system requirements for the destination Mac before beginning. Well, disable it, restart your MacOS, do the changes and then don't forget to enable it again.By creating a bootable install drive, you can perform clean OS X 10.8 installs, install it on separate partitions, and install OS X Mountain Lion on Macs that don’t have internet connections. basically, you need to restart your mac in recovery mode, go to menu utilities and open terminal, type crsutil status to check if it is enabled or disabled, then you can use csrutil disable or csrutil enable. Obs.: if your MacOS complain, you need to disable the CSR before change this.

That's it, now when you open the Bootcamp assistant you can use the option that allows you to create a USB install boot disk. it will ask if you want to replace it, then you answer yes. Save this file, go back to the contents of the Boot Camp Assistant and drag the newly edited file into. In my case I changed from Macbook7,2 to MacBookPro8,2. If it is like PreUSBBootSupportedModels, change the name to USBBootSupportedModels, expand this line and at the item0, edit and write down your MacBook model as a string value.

Open this ist file with a plist file editor or xcode, then look for a line saying "USBBootSupportedModels".

Then find the file ist and drag and drop to a whatever folder you created before. go to your application>utilities, select the Boot Camp Assistant app, right click > show packages content. So, for those who can't create the USB install disk, here some tip.