Most new PCs don't come with DVD drives anymore. So it can be a pain to install Windows on a new computer.
Luckily, Microsoft makes a tool that you can use to install Windows from a USB storage drive (or 'thumbdrive' as they are often called).
After making a Bootable USB drive for installing Operating Systems like Ubuntu via Pen drive using softwares like PowerISO, when you format your pen drive using Windows or Ubuntu it will show about only 2 MB of memory in a 4 GB pen drive. Follow the steps to format the pen drive properly and restore it back to its original condition. Steps to Create GPT Partition During Windows 10 Installation. Perform the below-mentioned steps sequentially. It will result to create GPT Partition during Windows 10 installation. Follow the steps: Shut down the PC and insert the DVD or USB that contains Windows 10 OS. Use UEFI boot mode to boot the system to the USB or DVD. Jul 30, 2020 Steps to Create GPT Partition During Windows 10 Installation. Perform the below-mentioned steps sequentially. It will result to create GPT Partition during Windows 10 installation. Follow the steps: Shut down the PC and insert the DVD or USB that contains Windows 10 OS. Use UEFI boot mode to boot the system to the USB or DVD.
But what if you don't have a second PC for setting up that USB storage drive in the first place?
In this tutorial we'll show you how you can set this up from a Mac.
You can download the ISO file straight from Windows. That's right - everything we're going to do here is 100% legal and sanctioned by Microsoft.
If you want an English-language version of the latest update of Windows 10, you can download the ISO here.
If you have a relatively new computer, you probably want the 64-bit version. If you're not sure, go with the 32-bit version to be safe.
If you want a non-English-language version of Windows, or want to get an older update version, download the ISO here instead.
The ISO file is only about 5 gigabytes, but I recommend you use a USB drive with at least 16 gigabytes of space just in case Windows needs more space during the installation process.
I bought a 32 gigabyte USB drive at Walmart for only $3, so this shouldn't be very expensive.
Stick your USB drive into your Mac. Then open your terminal. You can do this using MacOS Spotlight by pressing both the ⌘ and Space bar at the same time, then typing 'terminal' and hitting enter.
Don't be intimidated by the command line interface. I'm going to tell you exactly which commands to enter.
Open Mac Spotlight using the ⌘ + space keyboard shortcut. Then type the word 'terminal' and select Terminal from the dropdown list.
Paste the following command into your terminal and hit enter:
diskutil list
You will see output like this (note - your Mac's terminal may be black text on a white background if you haven't customized it).
Copy the text I point to here. It will probably be something like
How To Format Usb To Gpt In Windows For Mac Bootable Usb Windows 7/dev/disk2 .
Next format your USB drive to Windows FAT32 format. This is a format that Windows 10 will recognize.
Note that you should replace the
disk2 with the name of the your drive from step 3 if it wasn't disk2 . (It may be disk3 or disk4 ).
Run this command using the correct disk number for your USB:
diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS 'WIN10' GPT /dev/disk2
Then you'll see terminal output like this.
This will probably only take about 20 seconds on a newer computer, but may take longer on an older computer.
Note that for some hardware, you may instead need to run this command, which uses the MBR format for partitioning instead of GPT. Come back and try this command if step 7 fails, then redo steps 5, 6, and 7:
Now we're going to prep our downloaded ISO file so we can copy it over to our USB drive.
You will need to check where your downloaded Windows 10 ISO file is and use that. But your file is probably located in your
~/Downloads folder with a name of Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso .
hdiutil mount ~/Downloads/Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso
Update April 2020: One of the files in the Windows 10 ISO – install.wim – is now too large to copy over to a FAT-32 formatted USB drive. So I'll show you how to copy it over separately.
Thank you to @alexlubbock for coming up with this workaround.
First run this command to copy over everything but that file:
rsync -vha --exclude=sources/install.wim /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/ /Volumes/WIN10
Then run this command to install Homebrew (if you don't have it installed on your Mac yet):
/usr/bin/ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)'
Then use Homebrew to install a tool called wimlib with this terminal command:
brew install wimlib
Then go ahead and create the directory that you're going to write the files into:
mkdir /Volumes/WIN10/sources
Then run this command. It will use wimlib to split the install.wim file into 2 files less than 4 GB each, then copy them over to your USB:
wimlib-imagex split /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim /Volumes/WIN10/sources/install.swm 4000
Once that's done, you can eject your USB from your Mac inside Finder.
Congratulations - your computer now should boot directly from your USB drive. If it doesn't, you may need to check your new PC's BIOS and change the boot order to boot from your USB drive.
Windows will pop up a screen and start the installation process.
Enjoy your new PC, and your newly-installed copy of Windows.
In the old times, CD/DVD was popular for operating system installation. The operating system images were burned into CD or DVD then the installation was started via CD or DVD. Currently, USB or Flash Drives are popular to install new operating systems like Ubuntu, Windows, Mint, etc.
Rufus is a simple tool that is used to burn the operating system images into the USB or Flash Drives.
Rufus Features
Rufus is a simple tool but provides a lot of useful features to create bootable USB/Flash Drive. Here are some of the popular features of Rufus.
Download Rufus
Rufus is provided for different platforms and operating system. Rufus mainly used for windows operating system. Rufus can be downloaded from the following link.
If we want to download for ARM, Beta or different versions we can navigate to the
Other versions where all download types are provided.
Start Rufus
We will run the downloaded Rufus executable which will ask us Administrative rights. Because burning a USB/Flash disk requires some low-level functions which are only accessible with Administrative privileges. We will click
Yes like below to provide.
For the first start, Rufus will ask us if we want to check updates from the internet. We will click to
Yes in order to check updates regularly.
Rufus Menu
Rufus is a simple tool with a single screen. All configuration and operation are done via following the single screen. Let’s explain the configuration.
Download Ubuntu ISO Image
In this tutorial, we will create an Ubuntu Bootable Installation USB/Flash Disk. So we will download the Ubuntu ISO image. Ubuntu ISO images can be download in various ways. In this case, we will download from the Ubuntu web page as below. We will select the latest version
19.04 .
The downloaded Ubuntu ISO image has name
ubuntu-19.04-desktop-amd64.iso .
Create USB Ubuntu Installation Media
Before starting the USB Ubuntu installation media we have to plug the USB Flash media drive to the system. It will be automatically recognized by the Rufus. Then we will provide the ISO file from the
SELECT button of the Rufus like below.
We will see the following screen where we will select the Ubuntu ISO image file and then click to the
Open .
We can check provided ISO file validity by calculating hash values. Rufus provides
MD5 ,SHA1 and SHA256 hashes of the given ISO files. We will click on the following check button.
How To Format Usb To Gpt In Windows For Mac Bootable Usb Creation Tool
Calculated hash values will be printed with the following message box.
We will start the burning provides by clicking the
Start button like below. There will be some questions related to the USB Flash Drive creation.
As new Ubuntu ISO images provide different burning options we have two options
ISO Mode or DD Mode . By default, we will select the ISO Mode.
For the last warning, all data stored in the plugged USB media will be deleted. So please take a backup of the USB flash drive. We will click
OK to continue.
We will see that the progress will be shown in the
Status part of Rufus. There are different phases during a USB installation media creation.
When the burning process is completed we will the
Status part as Ready in green color like below.
Rufus Alternatives
Rufus is the most useful and stable USB Flash Disk Installation Media creator there are also some alternatives which provide different features.
Live Linux USB CreatorHow To Format Usb To Gpt In Windows For Mac Bootable Usb Windows 10
Live Linux is mainly developed to create Linux USB installation media. It provides a lot of different Linux distributions automatically without any explicit download. It can also add some virtual box software to run the Linux distributions on Windows without a reboot.
UNetbootin
Unetbootin is a cross-platform USB Flash Disk installation media creator where it supports Windows, Linux, MacOS. It can also automatically download some Linux distributions.
Universal USB Installer
Universal USB Installer is another tool alternative to Rufus. It is a bit outdated and provided by the
Pendrivelinux community.
How To Format A Usb Drive To Be BootableWindows 7 USB Download Tool
As its name contains download but it can also burn Windows 7 Images into the USB Flash Drive.
How To Format Usb To BootableWindows Media Creation ToolHow To Format Usb To Gpt In Windows For Mac Bootable Usb Creator
Windows Media Creation Tool is created for Windows 10 USB Flask Drive. It can also download Windows 10 Images. More details and usage information can be found in the following link.
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