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Aug 3, 2024, 5:17:58 PM8/3/24

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To create aWindows 10 bootable USB, download the Media Creation Tool. Then run the tooland select Create installation for another PC. Finally, select USBflash drive and wait for the installer to finish.

If you want to make sure that you created a bootable USB drive with the Windows 10 installer on it, go to File Explorer and check your drives in This PC. Your drive should be renamed something like USB-ESD (Electronic Software Delivery). When you open the drive, you should see boot files and a setup.exe file.

Now, if you need to install or reinstall Windows, you can connect the drive to your computer and reboot it. Your PC should then give you the option to install Windows. If not, double-click the setup.exe in the drive to start the installation process.

I'm running into a frustrating issue where I need to create a Windows 10 bootable USB for my Macbook Pro 2023, but every attempt to use Boot Camp Assistant has ended in errors. This has left me in a bit of a bind, as I'm keen to find an alternative method that bypasses Boot Camp altogether. The goal is to successfully prepare a USB drive with Windows 10 installation files, which I plan to use on a PC. If anyone knows how to do this directly on macOS, avoiding Boot Camp issues, I'd really appreciate a simplified guide or tool suggestions to get this done.

There are many ways and tools can be used to make Windows 10 bootable USB installer on Mac, like rufus, WonderISO or Unetbootin. But for me, I used to installed windows 10 in a VM (vmware i think is what I used) on Mac and then created the USB drive from there. I wish that you had known about this method.

Bootcamp assistant app is removed from Apple Silicon on Mac so you can't create Windows 10 bootable USB on Mac with Bootcamp app. I am using WonderISO on my Apple Silicon Mac running the latest macOS Sonoma and it only takes 3 clicks to create a Windows 10 bootable USB on my Mac.

Parallels Desktop, a popular virtualization software for Mac, allows you to run Windows and other operating systems within macOS without needing to reboot. So you can create Windows 10 bootable USB on Mac in a Windows virtual machine.

Firstly, you need to have a copy of the Windows 10 ISO file. Microsoft provides this file for free on their website, intended for users who need to install or reinstall Windows. Download this file to your Mac before proceeding to the next steps.

With the Windows 10 ISO file downloaded, the next crucial step is to obtain a USB drive with sufficient storage space. Typically, a drive with at least 8GB of space is recommended. This ensures that there is enough room for the Windows installation files and any additional updates or drivers you might need to include in the bootable media.

Once Parallels Desktop is installed, you can use it to create a new virtual machine using the Windows 10 ISO file. During the setup process, Parallels will ask where you want to install Windows. At this stage, instead of installing it on a virtual disk, you'll choose your USB drive as the installation destination. This process effectively turns your USB drive into bootable Windows 10 installation media.

However, it's important to note that directly creating Windows 10 bootable USB on Mac through Parallels Desktop might not be as straightforward as using dedicated software for making bootable drives. It takes more time and storage space on your Mac.

If you want to create windows 10 bootable USB on Mac without bootcamp, you can try using a different tool called Etcher. Etcher is a free and open-source tool that allows you to create bootable USB drives from ISO files. Here are the steps to create a Windows 10 bootable USB on Mac using Etcher:

It becomes much challenging to create Windows 10 bootable USB on Mac as Bootcamp is not available on Apple Silicon Mac. Instead, you can borrow another Intel Mac and use Bootcamp to make a bootable Windows 10 USB on Mac.

Step 1: Open the Boot Camp Assistant in the Utilities folder within your Applications folder. Alternatively, use Spotlight search (Cmd + Space) and type "Boot Camp Assistant" to find and open it.

I found a way to install Windows on system without Mac OS system. You will need a USB with a Mac OS system on it. Reason why you will need to format the HD of the mac. With the system off. Turn on the mac. Access the boot up Options menu. Select the USB with the mac os. You will not be loading the Mac Os system. Don't worry. It will load to install the Mac OS system. You click the desktop and select Disk Utility. Choose the hard drive. Select Partition. Select one Partition. Under the Partition window Select Master Boot Record. This will allow you to format the hard drive that is not GUID partition that is for Mac. Once that is done. You are golden. Make sure you have a bootable USB with Windows on it. I used a bootable CD with Windows 7. When selecting the bootable media, it will load windows. You may receive error that unable to use the hard drive. No worries. Select the hard drive, delete and format. and Try again. This should allow you use the hard drive and install windows. No boot camp and no Mac OS on the system. If you need to get drivers. Try using IOBIT Driver Booster. It is free. Or you can view the devices in Device manager to locate the kind of devices that maybe needed to be updated.

@Delaney_Justin Tried this today. My commands seemed to have worked. Files were created on my USB Flash Drive, but still doesn't seem to be recognized by my new PC. Do you have ideas on how to verify that the correct files were created? Maybe I messed up the path part?

@Tonyhu2255

I got me a hand me down iMac 27" late 2015 from work and just used Ventoy to boot into HirenBootcd. From this Windows recovery environment I started an installation for W11 with the bypass method for the requirement check. I had to manually look up all the drivers and the only one that gave me trouble was the audio which I managed to fix after tons of possible options on the sound driver end.

So now I don't use bootcamp and can install all the regular Windows drivers for the hardware. It runs like a charm and I'm surprised as to how capable of a machine it is this way. It runs some emulators and games pretty good as well.

o, for the M1 chip, Boot Camp should work just fine without any additional software like Parallels. However, if you have an older model with an Intel processor (M2/M3), then using Parallels is necessary in order to run Windows alongside macOS seamlessly on your machine. As for obtaining genuine Windows keys from Microsoft Partner Hypest-key

Now I put the old hard disk into an USB disk case and tried to boot, but Windows throws an error while booting (the USB disk was recognized properly and also the Windows partition was detected). The message says that the computer has to be restarted. It gives the following error code: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

If this doesn't work, during the restart that you trigger in step 5 enter the BIOS and change your SATA mode controller to IDE from ACHI, or vice versa, and try safe mode again. If that doesn't work it's time to look at setting up a USB recovery drive to tackle the problem.

I am aware that booting windows from a USB device is not natively supported, however I have myself achieved this in the past using a program which overcomes this limitation: WintoUSB. I have only ever used this to create "new" installs of Windows, but it may be possible to leverage the same ability to boot an existing Windows installation.

I fell over this article when I needed a copy of one of my physical machines. It had a hardware failure and I raided the disk, but before that I imaged it. When the replacement machine had a problem and I had to RMA it I wound up with a problem and decided to try and resurrect the original machine. Unfortunately with the repurposing of the existing C drive, I only had a disk image left and only a NVMe drive to put it on and only a USB adapter to put that in.

Which wound with with Inaccessible Boot device. Now this is something I'm well used to with my Virtual Machine conversions, it is simply a matter of the USB driver not being set to start at boot (start type of 0), in the registry.

I took the drive out of the USB3.0 slot and put it into USB2.0. I then booted into windows and logged in, opened up Regedit and navigated to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

So my PC crashed a couple days ago and I need to run a clean install of windows 10 from a bootable USB. The only other computer I have to work with is a Chrome OS, and I can't seem to find clear instructions on how to create a bootable USB from Chrome OS. Most of my search results are pulling up how to create a bootable USB to use within the Chromebook itself, whereas I want it to be used on a PC. Any ideas on how to do this?

Download the ISO file for Windows 10 from the Microsoft website here. Add the Chrome extension "Chromebook Recovery Utility." (Click here) Rename the downloaded file from filename.iso to filename.bin(The file name is usually called "Win10_22H2_English_x64v1.iso"). Launch Chromebook Recovery Utility and click the settings button in the top right corner, select "Use local image". Select the filename.bin that you downloaded and renamed. Insert and select the USB drive you are putting the iso on, wait for it to load, your done!

If your PC has the capacity to connect two USB devices, and you dohave two large-enough USB disks, then use one disk for booting anoperating system that can create on the other diskthe required Windows installation from the ISO.

My father's Windows 11 laptop can't boot after installing the latest system update. He asked me to reinstall Windows 11 on it. I did this a few years ago with the bootcamp assistant app. However, I am unable to find the app on my MacBook Air M1 running the latest macOS Sonoma 14.0. It turns out bootcamp is removed from Apple Silicon Mac.