We have recently shown you how to create a Windows 10 USB installer, but for those Mac users, that method won’t work since you can’t install the Windows executable file on your Mac. You can easily download the ISO file from the Microsoft website, but how can you create a USB installer in Mac? Here is how you can.
Getting the Windows 10 ISO file
Hello, welcome to another article, in this article I will show you How to create Bootable USB for Mac OS Mojave on Windows using Unibeast. You have tested Mac OS Mojave developer operating system on Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware Workstation Player.
1. To download the Windows 10 ISO file, you just have to visit this Microsoft site on your Mac. Select “Windows 10” from the drop-down menu, and then select the language. Lastly, select the “64-bit download” link to download the 64-bit ISO file.
The following instructions require you to have a USB drive of minimum 8GB. All the data in the USB drive will be wiped.
Creating Windows 10 USB Installer Via Bootcamp
1. In your Mac, open LaunchPad and type “bootcamp.” Select and open “BootCamp Assistant.”
2. In BootCamp Assistant, click “Continue.”
3. On the next screen, make sure the checkboxes beside “Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk” and “Download the latest Windows support software from Apple” are checked. Leave the last checkbox (install or remove Windows 7 or later version) unchecked.
4. Select the Windows 10 ISO file that you have previously downloaded and set the Destination disk to your USB drive.
5. A prompt will appear to inform you that the drive will be erased. Click “Continue” to proceed.
Bootcamp will then proceed to create the USB installer.
Once the installation is done, you will find a newly-mounted USB drive named WININSTALL in your Finder. You can now use it to install Windows 10 on any PC.
Note: if you have not upgraded to BootCamp 6, you might face the issue that “saving windows support software” is stuck and not moving. In this case, you can stop Bootcamp and follow the instruction here to fix the support software issue.
Creating Windows 10 USB Installer Via Terminal
If you are having an issue with BootCamp, you can try this method with the terminal.
1. Open the terminal and type the following command:
Replace
~/path/to/windows-10-iso
with the actual file path of the ISO file. This command will convert the ISO file to IMG format.Note: OS X tends to add a .dmg to the end of the IMG file. You can simply rename the file and remove the .dmg.
2. Next, check the location of your USB drive:
In this case, my USB drive is in “/dev/disk2.”
3. Unmount the USB drive.
Replace
/dev/diskX
with the location of your USB drive.4. Run the following command to create the USB installer:
Replace
/path/to/windows-10-iso
with the actual filepath of the ISO file and /dev/diskX
with the location of the USB drive. This will take some time.5. Lastly, eject the USB drive.
Once that is done, you will have a USB installer that you can use to install Windows 10.
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My friend had an issue with her windows laptop and she asked me to help. The laptop cannot boot properly anymore so I wanted to reinstall Windows from usb. I tried to restore but it didn't work.Since I have a Mac, most tools to create a bootable USB don't work.
I couldn't use Boot Camp Assist (as most howtos suggest) because it didn't show the option to 'burn' an USB on my system and I didn't want to install Xcode hoping to change that.I 'burnt' my usb using dd but I couldn't convince the laptop to boot from it.So after some more research I found unetbootin and an howto that suggests to erase the usb and formatting it using fat32 and then 'burn' the iso using unetbootin. It ALMOST worked - windows installer starts but then complains about 'cannot open d:sourcesinstall.wim 0x8007000d' (hope this reference helps other come to this question)searching for this I found that this file is bigger than 4GB so FAT32 is not an option.I reformatted the usb on Mac using exFAT and reinstalled the iso using unetbootin - but still no solutionWhen I format the usb with FAT32, I can see a UEFI entry pressing F12 on the Dell during startup - but now that option is not there. I can choose USB in the legacy menu but I just get to a blinking cursor.Ideas? thanks!
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If you can use Ubuntu either via another machine or a simple Bootable USB version (I only had a Mac and a Windowless PC - and nothing I did on Mac properly allowed the Windows boot drive to actually launch from BIOS), once you get the Windows .ISO onto Ubuntu you can use WoeUSB (this tutorial helped me a lot) to make a nice bootable Windows USB.
I used it to get Windows installed on a new PC.
Since have seen lots of people struggling with making Bootable Windows drives via Mac / Boot Camp Assistant and with UNetbootin (which seems un-updated in almost a year and isn't working with Mojave it seems) I figured would offer this option since it worked and is all free alternative when the Mac just isn't getting a proper bootable Windows installer.
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You have to use the Windows 10 April Update 2018 version of the
.iso
found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10ISOThen, continue to format your drive as FAT32 and copy files as per: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/18/tips-how-to-make-windows-10-install-media-on-macos-high-sierra
You will need FAT32 as UEFI boot requires it.
Rationale: The ISO for October 2018 has an
install.wim
is over the 4gb limit of FAT32 and April 2018's is not. I've scoured the internet for the past hour and this is the only solution I've found so far.![Bootable Bootable](/uploads/1/2/5/8/125847797/943744094.jpg)
Tony KoTony Ko
You can do it with:https://unetbootin.github.io/
Install it, download the Windows 10 ISO here:https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10ISO
Start Unetbootin in, select radio button DiskImage select the right ISO file. Choose the correct USB media and click ok.
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