Making a Windows Bootable USB from a Mac
Feb 9, 2020 | 9:06 pm
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Making a Windows Bootable USB from a Mac
I have an old Windows corporate machine that won't start or complete a repair to its hosed Windows installation. I want to rebuild it with Windows 10, but I can't find a way to effectively create a bootable USB from my Mac since the ability to do so within Bootcamp was removed with Mojave OS.
Most of the online instructions involve buying some form of suspicious software to do this, but I did find one website that walked me through the process of expanding the Win10 ISO file into its own drive on the Mac, and then copying the contents of that drive to the USB - I tried this, but the result was the Dell machine would not boot no matter what I tried with the BIOS.
Are there any reliable, free utilities out there that would take an ISO file and burn it to a USB stick as bootable media in the BIOS (not UEFI)?
Most of the online instructions involve buying some form of suspicious software to do this, but I did find one website that walked me through the process of expanding the Win10 ISO file into its own drive on the Mac, and then copying the contents of that drive to the USB - I tried this, but the result was the Dell machine would not boot no matter what I tried with the BIOS.
Are there any reliable, free utilities out there that would take an ISO file and burn it to a USB stick as bootable media in the BIOS (not UEFI)?
Feb 9, 2020 | 9:21 pm
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I have an old Windows corporate machine that won't start or complete a repair to its hosed Windows installation. I want to rebuild it with Windows 10, but I can't find a way to effectively create a bootable USB from my Mac since the ability to do so within Bootcamp was removed with Mojave OS.
Most of the online instructions involve buying some form of suspicious software to do this, but I did find one website that walked me through the process of expanding the Win10 ISO file into its own drive on the Mac, and then copying the contents of that drive to the USB - I tried this, but the result was the Dell machine would not boot no matter what I tried with the BIOS.
Are there any reliable, free utilities out there that would take an ISO file and burn it to a USB stick as bootable media in the BIOS (not UEFI)?
Most of the online instructions involve buying some form of suspicious software to do this, but I did find one website that walked me through the process of expanding the Win10 ISO file into its own drive on the Mac, and then copying the contents of that drive to the USB - I tried this, but the result was the Dell machine would not boot no matter what I tried with the BIOS.
Are there any reliable, free utilities out there that would take an ISO file and burn it to a USB stick as bootable media in the BIOS (not UEFI)?
Feb 10, 2020 | 12:02 am
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Microsoft own tool can create a bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive. But I don't know if this works with Mac or not.
Maybe you should ask someone to create that for you. It only takes not more than 15 minutes.
Maybe you should ask someone to create that for you. It only takes not more than 15 minutes.
Feb 10, 2020 | 7:26 am
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Feb 10, 2020 | 7:07 pm
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Apr 20, 2020 | 3:53 am
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Are you talking about Windows Media Create tool?I have never used this tool on Mac,but i don't think it will work on Mac.To make Windows bootable USB on Mac,why not use Mac Disk Utility?Such a professional and powerful tool.
Last edited by Sahil56; May 12, 2020 at 4:34 am
Apr 20, 2020 | 10:33 am
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Curious if you tried the steps listed below...
https://www.lewan.com/blog/2012/02/1...-x-from-an-iso
https://www.lewan.com/blog/2012/02/1...-x-from-an-iso
Apr 20, 2020 | 12:35 pm
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I ended up taking the old laptop to a local repair shop and paying them $50 to strip the hard drive clean and put a fresh copy of Windows 10 on it - was worth dropping the entire hassle.
Apr 20, 2020 | 1:42 pm
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Glad it got resolved.
Apr 28, 2020 | 2:04 am
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Etcher is a program I used to make many bootable usb-sticks - cannot be simpler
https://www.balena.io/etcher/?ref=etcher_menu
They seem to have Mac, Linux and Windows versions
https://www.balena.io/etcher/?ref=etcher_menu
They seem to have Mac, Linux and Windows versions
May 21, 2020 | 3:20 am
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They seem to have Mac, Linux and Windows versions.
About making Windows bootable USB on Mac,i got two tutorials:https://www.uubyte.com/create-bootab...ndows-iso.html
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-USB-Bootable
About making Windows bootable USB on Mac,i got two tutorials:https://www.uubyte.com/create-bootab...ndows-iso.html
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-USB-Bootable
Last edited by Sahil56; May 25, 2020 at 3:59 am
