Create a Windows 10 USB from MacOS
These are the steps I use to create a Window 10 installer on MacOS. I only do this once in a blue moon and I want to make sure I keep track of these commands before they are lost in my history.
# Format the USB drive as MS-DOS and name it "WIN10"
$ diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "WIN10" MBR /dev/disk127
# Copy files from mounted Windows 10 ISO to new drive
# > Make sure to preserve trailing slash (/)
$ rsync -vha --exclude=sources/install.wim /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/ /Volumes/WIN10
# Split and copy the last file
$ wimlib-imagex split /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim /Volumes/WIN10/sources/install.wim 4000
The prerequisites for the above commands are knowing the id of the mounted USB drive and wimlib-imagex
. MacOS only has write capabilities for the older MS-DOS
file format which has a 4GB single file size limit. This is why we use wimlib-imagex
to split the 5GB install.wim into two files.
You can find the ID of your USB drive with Disk Utility.
It looks like I installed wimlib-imagex
with HomeBrew.
$ brew install wimlib
See you later future Baylor!