How To Create A Windows 7 Usb Installer On Mac

Create a bootable flash drive for installing Windows To install Windows 10 Education Edition from, or if you have a Windows 8.x or 7 installation disk but do not have an optical (CD/DVD) drive on your computer, you can use a Windows or Mac OS X computer to create a bootable flash drive to use in the installation. As part of the process, you'll need to obtain a Windows.iso file, which contains all the files needed to install Windows, and then use special software to write it to a USB drive and make it bootable. You cannot simply copy this file to a USB drive, but must use the software to write it properly. On a Windows computer, you can use either a tool from Microsoft, or the Rufus software; using the Microsoft tool is generally simpler, while Rufus has some additional features. On this page:. What you'll need. A flash drive with at least 4 GB of space.

1. How To Create A Windows 7 Installer Usb Drive From Mac Os X
2. How To Make A Bootable Windows 7 Usb On Mac Os X

How to create a bootable USB Windows 7 or 8 install from within OSX for use on a PC. Discussion in 'Windows, Linux & Others on the Mac' started by burningrave101, Aug 18, 2012.

A valid product key that came with your Windows software. For Windows 10, this will be available on IUWare. For Windows 8.x or 7, this will be on the disc you purchased from IU. On a Windows computer, you will need to have. Insert your flash drive before beginning.

Create a bootable installation flash drive for Windows 10 Education Edition These instructions use a more updated and secure version of Windows 10 Education than that available on IUware; however, you will still need to visit IUware to get the product key. Go to on IUware and select either the 32-bit or 64-bit version. Review and accept the terms, and then click Get product key. Copy the product key to use later. Download and run the.

Accept the license terms. Enter the product key, and then click Next. To have the Microsoft tool create your bootable flash drive, make sure your flash drive is plugged in, select USB flash drive, and click Next. To use Rufus, select ISO file and click Next. This will save the.iso file to your computer; follow the directions at to write this file to your flash drive.

Create a bootable installation flash drive for Windows 8.1. Because Windows 8 is no longer supported, you must create a Windows 8.1 bootable flash drive and upgrade to Windows 8.1. Go to Microsoft's site. Download and run the Install Windows 8.1 tool. Accept the license terms. Enter the Windows 8.x product key from your disc, and then click Next.

To have the Microsoft tool create your bootable flash drive, make sure your flash drive is plugged in, select USB flash drive, and click Next. To use Rufus, select ISO file and click Next. This will save the.iso file to your computer; follow the directions at to write this file to your flash drive. Create a bootable installation flash drive for Windows 7 You can no longer download legal.iso files for Windows 7 Ultimate. You have two options for creating a bootable installation flash drive:. UITS will create a bootable installation flash drive for you at the IUB or IUPUI; bring a blank flash drive with at least 4 GB of storage. If you are unable to visit a walk-in location or would prefer to work with the.iso file yourself, you can create the Windows 7.iso file from your Windows 7 Ultimate disc using a program called ImgBurn and then create the bootable flash drive with either the Windows USB/DVD tool or Rufus.

To create the Windows 7 Ultimate.iso file from your Windows 7 Ultimate disc:. Download and install ImgBurn via. UITS does not recommend downloading directly from the ImgBurn site for security reasons. Follow the instructions at How-To Geek's. You can now use the.iso file to create a Windows 7 Ultimate bootable installation flash drive using either a Windows tool or Rufus. To use the Windows tool.

This method formats the flash drive using the NTFS file system, which is incompatible with UEFI (secure boot). Download and install the. Open the Windows USB/DVD Download tool.

When prompted, browse to your.iso file, select it, and click Next. When asked to select the media type for your backup, make sure your flash drive is plugged in, and then choose USB device. You may be prompted to insert the USB device even if the flash drive is already inserted. Ignore this, and choose the USB device you'll be writing to. Click Begin Copying.

If prompted, confirm that you wish to erase the flash disk. The.iso files will start copying to the flash drive (the process can take several minutes). When finished, close the wizard and eject and remove the flash drive. To use Rufus to create the bootable drive, follow the directions at to write this file to your flash drive. Use Rufus to write an.iso file. Download.

Rufus is a standalone program and does not require installation. Open the Rufus program from where you downloaded it to run it. Select Create a bootable disk using and choose ISO Image from the drop-down menu. Click the disc icon and browse to your Windows.iso file and select it. To ensure the flash drive is compatible with UEFI, select FAT32 for 'File System'. To create the flash drive with the 'Press any key to boot from USB' prompt, select the Create extended label and icon files option. When you are done selecting options, click Start When prompted, confirm that you want to erase the flash disk.

The.iso files will start copying to the flash drive (the process can take several minutes). When Rufus is done, close the program and eject and remove the flash drive. Create a bootable installation flash drive on an OS X computer. In OS X, the option to create a Windows flash drive appears only when the computer does not have an optical drive. If your Mac has an optical drive, the option will be either missing or grayed out. From the Finder, open the Applications folder, and then Utilities. Open the Boot Camp Assistant, and then click Continue.

The next screen should give you a list of options. UITS recommends making the USB drive installer first.

You don't need to install Windows or download the support software at this time, as it will be easier to do both later. To proceed:. Verify that the USB drive you will be writing to is plugged in.

Uncheck the Install Windows 7 or later version and Download the latest Windows support software from Apple options. Check Create a Windows 7 or later install disk and click Continue.

Your USB drive should be listed in the 'Destination disk' area. Use choose to browse to your.iso file; after selecting it, click Continue. If prompted, confirm your action and/or provide an administrator's password. The process of writing the.iso file to the USB drive can take 20 minutes or longer. Other resources.

We previously showed you how to create a USB installation media when performing a, but there might be an instance where the only machine you have available is a Mac. We'll show you to create a bootable USB flash drive with the Windows 10 installer from a Mac.

It's easier than you think, thanks to the built-in Boot Camp Assistant from Apple. Download Windows 10 Disc Image First, you need to download the Windows 10 ISO file. Go to the download page and select the proper edition of Windows 10 in the dropdown menu. If you don't know what K, KN, or Single Language edition stands for, just select Windows 10 in the list. Create USB installer with Boot Camp Assistant After downloading the ISO file, you'll need to use Boot Camp Assistant to move it to a bootable USB drive. Insert a USB flash drive to your Mac. Make sure it's at least 8GB, which is usually marked on the USB stick.

You can also check by right-clicking the USB drive on your desktop and clicking Get Info. Check if the number next to Capacity is at least 8GB. All the files in the drive will be deleted, so make sure there are no important documents inside. Open Boot Camp Assistant. The easiest way to launch it is through Spotlight Search, which you can bring up by pressing Command and Spacebar. Press Enter to launch the app.

Check the box for 'Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk' and deselect 'Install Windows 7 or later version.' .

Click Continue to proceed. Boot Camp Assistant will automatically locate the ISO file from your downloads folder, but make sure it is the right file.

Click the 'Choose' button and locate the ISO file. Make sure the destination disk is the USB thumb drive you've inserted. Click Continue.

It can take about 20 minutes to format and set up the USB installer on the Mac. When Boot Camp Assistant is done, the USB drive will be renamed to WININSTALL. Click Quit to close the app and then Eject the USB drive. You now have a bootable USB drive with the Windows 10 installer.

How To Create A Windows 7 Installer Usb Drive From Mac Os X

You can use it to from scratch. We told you it was easy! Have you tried creating a Windows 10 installer USB drive from a Mac before? Did you encounter any issues?

How To Make A Bootable Windows 7 Usb On Mac Os X

Let us know your experience in the comments! So, for those who can't create the USB install disk, here some tip. Go to your applicationutilities, select the Boot Camp Assistant app, right click show packages content. Then find the file info.plist and drag and drop to a whatever folder you created before. Open this info.plist file with a plist file editor or xcode, then look for a line saying 'USBBootSupportedModels'. If it is like PreUSBBootSupportedModels, change the name to USBBootSupportedModels, expand this line and at the item0, edit and write down your MacBook model as a string value.

In my case I changed from Macbook7,2 to MacBookPro8,2. Save this file, go back to the contents of the Boot Camp Assistant and drag the newly edited file into. It will ask if you want to replace it, then you answer yes. That's it, now when you open the Bootcamp assistant you can use the option that allows you to create a USB install boot disk.

Obs.: if your MacOS complain, you need to disable the CSR before change this. Basically, you need to restart your mac in recovery mode, go to menu utilities and open terminal, type crsutil status to check if it is enabled or disabled, then you can use csrutil disable or csrutil enable. Well, disable it, restart your MacOS, do the changes and then don't forget to enable it again.

There's a report above saying it doesn't work, but that's not true. I just installed Windows 10 on my PC (UEFI) using this method. My Macbook Pro has El Capitan (10.11.5), and the bootcamp assistant worked flawlessly. I tried a whole bunch of other methods (manual use of dd, Unetbootin, Etcher, etc), all of which failed. The bootcamp assistant finished burning the image in about twenty minutes (and did some extra things that are probably unnecessary), and when I plugged the flash drive into my PC, it booted straight into Windows Setup.