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1. CREATE A WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE USB ON MAC WITHOUT BOOTCAMP INSTALL
2. CREATE A WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE USB ON MAC WITHOUT BOOTCAMP WINDOWS 10
3. CREATE A WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE USB ON MAC WITHOUT BOOTCAMP TRIAL
4. CREATE A WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE USB ON MAC WITHOUT BOOTCAMP PC

CREATE A WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE USB ON MAC WITHOUT BOOTCAMP INSTALL

To create our bootcamp partition we need to have a windows install disk, and since the reason you’re here is because you don’t have access to it, we need to trick bootcamp into thinking we have a dvd loaded, thats where daemon tools comes n (i tried mounting the image natively on mac but it wasn’t recognized) Make sure you have downloaded and installed daemon tools and tuxera. (boot drive should be UEFI compatible, if using rufus, you can do this by selecting the "GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer" option ) Create Bootcamp Partition To create an installer usb you can use windows tool such as Rufus etc, or if you cant access a windows box use the dd tool in mac using this guide

CREATE A WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE USB ON MAC WITHOUT BOOTCAMP TRIAL

A windows iso (I’m using windows 10, windows 8, 8.1 should work fine as well)ĭaemon tools for mac, download trial hereįormat and prepare the bootcamp partition Unlike other installs, this method keeps working audio, doesnt require editing Bootcamp Assistants ist or installing to virtual machines.

CREATE A WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE USB ON MAC WITHOUT BOOTCAMP WINDOWS 10

A bit tedious but it works.After several failed attempts at installing windows 10 on my 2011 MBP without a DVD drive (second HDD in optibay), I finally came up with this solution. I found the only way for me to make it work was installing windows on VirtualBox, and then use Rufus in the virtual machine to create the bootable usb drive. This was so complicated for some reason and took me many hours to figure out. If it says operating system not found, this worked for me.

CREATE A WINDOWS 10 BOOTABLE USB ON MAC WITHOUT BOOTCAMP PC

(Once that finished, I deleted the old wimaa and wimab files) del install.wimaaĪfter this I followed the rest of the guide, applied the image, add boot records (The disk volumes for me were different than what the guide should have given me, but that might have been a mistake on my part) and booted my pc back up after removing the USB. Navigated to that volume, went to the sources folder and typed the commands: type install.wimaa install.wimab > install.wim

So I go to the command prompt and follow the guide and type out the diskpart commands it says (I followed MBR).Īfter that, I copied the contents of the USB drive to the Windows 10 volume that I created from the guide (I think I used xcopy, but there's other commands for it).

This time, when I booted from the USB, I get the Windows boot media, but it obviously cannot find install.wim.

I then moved all the ISO files to the FAT32 USB, but with the new install.wim files. This creates install.wimaa and install.wimab. split -b 3700m /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-GB_DV9/sources/install.wim install.wim I used split terminal command to split the install.wim file. I found this amazing guide for it (), but it was for Windows so I had to adapt it. Here is how I did it for anyone else who has this problem. So, I needed to use FAT32 for my BIOS to accept it, but both the April 2018 and October 2018 updates had an install.wim file that was over 4 GB (I downloaded the English international version for both, maybe other versions are different?). The WIM is read-only (file permissions, header flag, or split WIM).Ĭp install.wim /Volumes/MYUSB/sources/install.wim You may need sudo, because you could encounter an error like this: Can't modify "/home/roger/win/sources/install.wim": Permission denied "install.wim" optimized size: 3311533 KiB Wimlib-imagex optimize install.wim -solid "install.wim" original size: 4463411 KiBĪrchiving file data: 9 GiB of 9 GiB (100%) done

I managed to reduce the size bellow 4Go, my FAT32 usb thumb accepted it, and booted with successĬopie the bigfile from the iso volume to your HD Disk (Download example by example)Ĭp /Volumes/CCC./sources/install.wim install.wim The open-source package called wimlib, can also "optimize" a wim file.