create bootable media

This article applies to:

  •  macOS 10.14 or newer

Symptoms

  1. You run Rescue Media Builder and select the disk that you want to make bootable.
  2. You get the following error:

    An error occurred while creating media. Failed to create bootable media by using Apple Software Restore

Cause

Most likely, access to removable volumes was explicitly denied by the user for Media Builder.