Re: Writing a windows.iso to a usb flash drive

I see this posting goes way back to July, so I don't remember if I've ever seen it before. The problem with doing this sort of thing is that whenever the macOS Finder checks the drive out, it will immediately install one or two invisible folders/files (I think .DS_Store and .fseventsd) and that

Re: Writing a windows.iso to a usb flash drive

Thanks to all who responded... I never knew Boot Camp Assistant could make bootable Windows flash drives! Yes, this did the right thing. Very nice. Thanks! -Carl > On Jul 26, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Macs R We wrote: > > When I've had to do this, I usually just have the originator (e.g., MS Media

Re: Writing a windows.iso to a usb flash drive

Did you try totally obliterating whatever partitions are on the USB drive? I’ve sometimes run into trouble where there was some oddity with the partition table and macOS just errored whenever I tried creating something new. Open Terminal, note the USB drive's device identifier (that is, disk5, d

Re: Writing a windows.iso to a usb flash drive

When I've had to do this, I usually just have the originator (e.g., MS Media Creation Tool) write the file directly to the USB in the first place, precisely to avoid issues like this. You might try a "cloning" utility, such as Carbon Copy Cloner or the cloner tool in Drive Genius. > On Jul 25,

Re: Writing a windows.iso to a usb flash drive

Maybe Roxio Toast would work. > On Jul 25, 2020, at 9:22 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > I just tried this command: > > $ sudo dd if=Win10_2004_English_x64.iso of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1m > > It completes successfully, but the flash drive is rendered unreadable by both > macOS and Windows. I gu

Re: Writing a windows.iso to a usb flash drive

I just tried this command: $ sudo dd if=Win10_2004_English_x64.iso of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1m It completes successfully, but the flash drive is rendered unreadable by both macOS and Windows. I guess I'll have to give up and buy an el-cheapo Win10 CD on eBay... -Carl > On Jul 25, 2020, at 6:15 P

Writing a windows.iso to a usb flash drive

I am trying to write a .iso file to a USB flash drive to be used to install Windows 10 onto a PC with a blank HDD. I've downloaded the 5.27GB 64bit Windows10.iso file (twice) from microsoft.com , but when I use DiskUtility.app to "restore" the .iso file to the flash drive