- #Installing windows on mac with usb how to#
- #Installing windows on mac with usb drivers#
- #Installing windows on mac with usb windows 10#
And the solution involves using Windows itself.
#Installing windows on mac with usb how to#
There is a much easier way! How to create a USB stick to install Windows from WindowsĪfter all this struggle I realized that there must be an easier way to create a USB stick to install Windows from a Mac. To make FAT32 work you need to split the file which is bigger than 5GB into chunks under the file size limit. However, my BIOS will not boot from a USB flash drive formatted with ExFAT. Some of the solutions to this problem propose using ExFAT instead, as it accepts file sizes above 4GB.
#Installing windows on mac with usb windows 10#
The latest Windows 10 install has a file with 5GB, so if you try to copy the install files to a USB stick, it will fail because one file is over 4GB size. The main reason why it is so hard to create a Windows USB stick from a Mac has to do with file size limits on the FAT32 file system(4 GB). Why is it so hard to create a USB stick to install Windows 10 I have even seen articles suggesting to use rsync! Come on, if I want to install windows, I definitely do not want to resort to Rsync.Some convoluted methods that require me to use diskutil either from the command line or from the UI, also no luck.Using software utilities like UNetbootin, highly discouraged by Apple with some scary warnings, from doing so, also didn’t work for me.I was able to create the USB stick but it wouldn’t boot on my new PC. Not only you need to have an old version of Macos X for this to work, but even if you do have one, at least in my case, it didn’t work. I tried to create a USB stick to install Windows using Bootcamp.I tried every different method described on the world wide web and all failed. The only drawback is that it requires some additional disk space in your Mac.īut before we get to the actual solution, let me just give you a quick overview of the different methods I tried before getting to this solution. You have tried every different method imaginable and nothing seems to work.Īfter a lot of trial and error, I have found a straightforward method that works every time. El Capitan makes it easier and you just have to select the ISO and the amount of space that we want the partition to occupy Windows and click install, it's that simple.īut then, where is the Windows installer partition? Very simple, OS X El Capitan apart from creating as it did previous versions of the system, a Boot Camp partition to install Windows, now it also creates another partition named OSXRESERVED which will occupy 8Gb in FAT32 format and which will be located after the recovery partition and before the Boot Camp partition.You are here because you want to create a USB stick to install Windows 10 but you only have a Mac at home.
#Installing windows on mac with usb drivers#
I am referring to the change in Boot Camp, not because the Windows installation wizard has radically changed, but because now those users who want to install the Microsoft system on your Mac you will not have the need to create a partition on a USB memory, but it can be installed natively.īefore you had to plug in a USB memory and the Boot Camp Assistant I copied the installer from the ISO image to the memory unit and then downloaded and configured the necessary Windows drivers in the location where the installer for the hardware of that specific Mac was located. Apart from the news that we are getting to know little by little about OS X El Capitan, we also find others that, although it has not had so much impact, it may be interesting for certain users.