Creating a Windows bootable USB on a Mac! (Windows 10 or Windows 11)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Making a Windows bootable USB on a Mac can give you a lot of problems but here is a video giving you step by step instructions how to make it easy. If you have any questions just drop a comment and I will try to get back to you as quickly as possible.
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Did it work
This is literally the only method that actually works on the whole internet. I know becasue I'ven been everywhere. Thank you!
Thank you so much! It means a lot and I'm glad it was helpful.
Everywhere man? So you've been to "Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla,Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa Tennessee to Tennesse Chicopee, Spirit Lake Grand Lake, Devils Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake...Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Ombabika Schefferville, Jacksonville, Waterville, Costa Rica Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield, Shreveport Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond du Lac, Davenport Idaho, Jellico, Argentina, Diamantina, Pasadena, Catalina, see what I mean? Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelburg, Colorado Ellensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, El Dorado Larimore, Atmore, Haverstraw, Chatanika Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelika Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City, what a pity"
@@DevonDassaw bro really said "everywhere" and listed abunch of places in america 😭😭
@@calcumalations1235 I mean it is a song I quoting this the quotation marks. A lil jokey jokey for the commentator @pedrobarbeitos
@@DevonDassaw oh mb then, thought it was a case of American thinking America is the only place in earth 😭
I rarely ever leave comments on TH-cam. Like ever. not on my favorite bands, celebs or artists, or even the most hotly anticipated video games. Hell, I didn't even comment on my own videos when I was a techtuber. But that changes today. YOU SIR, are a gift to mankind. I can't thank you enough, and i hope reading this comment makes your day because this video certainly made mine. All the best!
Thanks to you, I was finally able to install Windows on a new computer, having only a MacBook.This is the only working tutorial on TH-cam. And this is my first donation on TH-cam.
I appreciate it! Means a lot 🥲 I’m glad I was able to help though. That process took me forever to figure out so I knew other people were probably running into the same issue.
After hours of trying, yours was the only method that actually worked for me! (I'm on an M1 mac and created a Windows 11 bootable drive). Thank you!
You probably won’t see this but just know you’re an absolute life saver! Spent a week trying to figure this crap out and I finally went to TH-cam and found this video and it worked perfectly
Same, it is insane how Apple limits a possibility to make a bootable USB of concurrent OS.
@@CarTastic-fv6eobecause Apple is shit
Bro thank you for taking out the time to do this tutorial. You seem like a really genuine guy who actually care for people. Keep being you bro! Thanks again my guy 🤝🏽
I appreciate that! Glad it was helpful !
before this tutorial, i was working hours upon hours with thousands of errors with your tutorial i was able to install windows on my new pc and create many memories on my computer. I cant thank you enough.
Just a good "old fashioned" tutorial with zero sketchy free trial links. Thanks man, you saved my PC!
I know this takes a lot of time and time is precious so thank you for making this man. You are a lifesaver of sorts.
Man, thank you so much!
I needed to install Win10 on my workstation and the only computer I had around was my wife's Mac. I've never used one for more than 5 minutes so I was kinda bummed out at the prospect of spending hours to simply get a bootable USB drive.
Turns out BootCamp doesn't work on newer Macs, which sucks because almost every video I've managed to stumble upon shows you how to make a USB with this app. I spent a good hour or two trying to find a way to do it.
It's no exaggeration that you were sent to me by the angels of the search algorithm. I followed along (not without screw ups, but who's perfect?) and it turned out great!
Thanks, man, it's a great video and it was super helpful!
FINALLY a video that actually goes through all of the steps! This is the video I was looking for. Thanks!
Glad it helped! Thank for the comment 🙏
Dude, when I tell you I’ve been close to just giving up and buying a usb with windows installation media on until I found this, I’m actually so thankful 😭🙏
bro I spent so long trying to do this. I had just built my dream PC after many damn years and I couldn't boot bc I have a MacBook. Thank you soooo much bro I was stuck for hours and bummed until I found this video praying it worked. Ur a g. Keep up the damn good work brother.
Thank you. I was concerned about not making (or even having an option to make) a bootable image. But it all worked when done just as described here. The one small surprise was the time it took to split the large file at the end of the process. It was maybe more than 15 minutes, on an M2 Pro Macbook. Thank you.
Blessings for people like you. Not everyone has cross compatible devices and when my desktop shit the bed I was so happy to find this at 12:21 am trying to get a bootable media off my macbook
MAN THIS VIDEO HELPED ME SO MUCH! IM TALKING ABOUT HOURS OF FRUSTRATION RESOLVED! THANK YOU DARIN
be careful that you but the slash directly behind the direction (sources folder). I tried and tried but the I realised that there was a space. Great video, Thanks man
Great advice! Glad it helped🙏thanks for the support.
Someone give my man a medal, a cup, and everything he needs in life. bro you just helped me a lot and I really wanna show my appreciation but im broke.
STILL WORKS AUGUST 2024
THANKS SO MUCH BRO YOU ARE THE GOAT !!!!!!
bro I need ur help
It's not work on me, while installing the windows I got the error
Thank you for this video! I looked everywhere and tried a lot of other guides but none of them worked. I really appreciate the time you took to make this and am so happy its working (after a long file splitting process with home-brew lol) You're the man!
After hours of swapping wrong files onto my USB, this tutorial finally made it work.
Thanks for explaining why i dont use exFat (file is too large) , and how to split one file into two ! Now it finally made sense and I can boot my PC :)
exFat does not have a file size limit for all practical purposes. Just used an exFat formatted USB to copy all those files and upgraded a Windows machine found in the street (donating it now).
Thanks! Exactly what I needed!
You're welcome! I’m glad you found value in it and appreciate the Super Thanks! First one ever, means the world 😭
@@darinwood_tech is it required to merge the two files into one after the copy?
@@Johnvardas No
Exactly what I wanted to say! The only TH-camr that got it 👍
It's 5 AM on the morning of my kid's 9th bday and we're about to build a gaming PC for him in an entirely Mac household. If this works, I will be forever grateful.
Yep... this worked. Holy moly. Thank you.
THIS WORKS!!! FINALLY! I tried so many YT tutorials, where they wanted me to download Virtual Machines of windows, and emulators, and my mac was just NOT having it. Error after error with them. Then, I came across this video and followed it step by step. I didn't understand anything that I was doing, but IT WORKED!!! You are a great teacher and explained everything super clearly. Thankyou!!
Wow thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I am not very technical but this was pretty easy to follow! Great job man :o)
Made it exactly how you said but it doesn't boot. Apparently it is not bootable. How do I even check if the usb drive is even bootable? I am positive I followed you and everything is 100% correct.
Since you are certain you have everything correct. I ran into this issue on my device and it was the port it was plugged into so I tried all four usb ports and the last one worked. I would recommend this but I will also look into it and try to find what might have happened.
unbelievable how much work it took me to get this done man! Thank you so much for your help. Really amazing!
I don't often comment on youtube videos. But it would not be hyperbole to say that I couldn't have done this without you. So thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for this tutorial
Does zsh shell run the 'brew install wimlib' command, or do i have to install another shell before running this command.
I get the error: 'zsh: command not found: brew'
Im currently on my Macbook 13,3" 2022 M1
Did it work out for you
don't cancel homebrew installation, just following the step at your terminal
This is a good tutorial. Better than many others! You deserve praise good sir.
Just done it, if this works, you sir are a legend. Such a good video to follow
I hit some trouble with this first, but eventually it worked!! Thanks.
Thanks for the video, very helpful! I hit a few snags along the way with downloading Homebrew initially, but it all worked out.
It took me awhile to get it also, glad it ended up working out 🙏
I was trying to get a bootable USB for two days, up all night both times, nothing was working. None of the links, none of the methods , none of it. Finally, nearing 4am on the second night, someone sent me this video. Now, it feels like this must be the easiest thing in the world. Thanks so m much, hope more people see this
Isn't having a MacBook great?
@@ohfice Ironically, after using macbooks for years, I built a windows (have free access to windows education edition) gaming desktop. As great as airdrop was, can't believe I felt like I needed it all these years because of how annoying macs run certain programs.
@@savsav6111 worst purchase I've made in my life
I went through SO many forums and videos and this was by FAR the easiest (and the only one that worked)
Thank you so much!!
hi and thx, but then installing windows says the install wim is missing... any idea ? thx !
If you try this PLEASE CHECK ALL YOUR SPACES IN THE TERMINAL do it exactly as it is in the video if you put too many spaces or no space errors will come up for you in the terminal like “unknown command” and such so do it just like in the video
Hey there, do you know how to install wimlib. He kinda glosses over it.
Still not working
Greatest youtuber of all time, spent way too long doing this and nothing worked till I saw this, you're amazing
This worked while the "dd" command line method didn't work. Thank you!!!
Thanks bud. That did the trick. I just had to be careful on the last part to fill it in exactly as you did. At first I missed a space so it wouldn't work at first. I tried following an other tutorial before yours and it had some vital bits of info missing. Yours was very concise, thanks buddy.
Glad it helped!
my windows boot didn’t recognize install.swn and install2.swn, how fix?
Wow! Really the best way to create a Windows bootable USB on youtube. It works!
Glad it was helpful!
This is Genius. Just what I needed after a long day at work. You just saved many hours of my life. Straight to the point.
This was a really good video. I can't believe it's as difficult to do as it is.
It’s crazy! Exactly why I made this video though because it took me hours to get it to work.
@@darinwood_tech @Alex Jackson It's because Apple wants everyone to live on their little ecosystem and have zero incentive to make it easy for people who want to work outside their ecosystem.
They make beautiful hardware, but other than that, fuck Apple.
You have to be careful doing this. I did this and it looks like on Windows version 22H2 it will create a blue screen of death loop after trying to update some driver. I attempted to isolate the issue and can't seem to find which driver but I suspect a network or a display. If you do this, please use the windows instance to immediately make a windows 10 bootable drive from the installation tool on the Windows website and re-install windows using that after the initial installation.
Thank you for sharing this! I have not run into this problem but definitely worth mentioning.
I'm not out of the woods yet but my other computer can finally see the USB drive I made on my wife's Mac TYSM man
Darin, this is very good. The best, down to the point, no BS and clear explanation I have seen in the web about ANY topic. Very good, Thank You!! 👍My first donation on TH-cam.
many thanks, just one thing please, when I try to install wimlib it tells me that ''command not found: brew''
I have same issue and this guy won't respond telling us. Is this scam??
don’t abort the instal homebrew, just click enter and following the steps
Thanks for the video. Is there a reason why you use FAT32 instead of using exFAT which doesn't have the 4GB limitation?
It's weird... exFAT worked just fine
I searched for that question and answer. Thanks guys ❤
Man, great Video! I was beginning to think that I couldn't install Windows (Because my Mac requires a USB to Install Windows) But this video made the installation process very Clear.
TH-cam tutorial guy saves the day yet again. Thank you!
I can't thank you enough for this video! This was So So So helpful!
You're so welcome!
Thanks alot for this video, I have a question pls, once the bootable drive is created using this method, will I be able to use that flash drive to install windows on a Microsoft computer?
I have the same question.
Sorry for the late reply but this method would allow you to install Windows OS on any compatible device. Make sure to check Windows system requirements.
mate youre a legend you just saved me taking my old lappy to the repair shop!!!
Amazing Darin. I was about to give up. And im a devops engineer who built a "few" machines with my own hands. That only comes to show you its never late to be educated by other people
I did everything according to the instructions in your video, but when I go to plug in my USB and boot to Windows and start the install, I get an error saying that it can't find the .wim file. I'm guessing it's because I split it into two. Any recommendations on what to do?
Same here :( did you figure it out?
nothing worked when i tried for day this has got to be the smoothest and more accurate guide there is, worked perfectly. thanks man
You're a lifesaver! I've been trying to get my old computer setup with Windows to start home lab stuff, and I only have a Mac. I couldn't find any other instructions that worked, until this!
Trying to split this file is like trying to split an atom.
I agree!
Can’t figure out how to download wimlib
After you install Homebrew, it gives a warning letting you know homebrew is not in your filepath. It lets you know 2 commands you need to run first. After that you should be able to install wimlib. Hopefully that helps!
Thank you !!! I've been trying for the past day to get any software that would allow to burn an ISO to a USB and nothing worked, but yours was straight to the point and worked very good !
It's crazy to me how everything is ""easy"" on a Mac but as soon as you wanna look into a specific thing, it's always waaaaaaaay harder than on Windows
Dude, thank you so much for this. I spent several hours trying to figure this out before I found your video. Saved my weekend!
Glad it helped 🙏
Purchasing a MacBook was probably one of my life's biggest regrets. You have to go through brain surgery anytime you want to do the simplest things
Man Mac is easy
Try Linux lol
@Devex-Tech I'm sure it's more difficult, but Linux doesn't market itself as simple or target students and other groups with a baseline understanding of computer science.
yeah I know but it was just funny to see someone saying that using Mac is hard, what is hard for you in Mac OS?
@@ohfice
Why are you watching a Mac tutorial video?
bc i didnt want to fuck up something when making my backup w11 pendrive@@ohfice
Thank yo so much! Quick and short video. The only man on YT who tell you how it really works! Great job!
Had a bit of a heart attack with my first PC build. Only have a Mac,....until now! Thank you for this!
Sir, do you know how to install wimlib? He glosses over it and I have no idea how to install it.
@@DCAISTHEWAYdid u find out ?
I want to earnestly thank you! this is the one solution that worked for me when all other solutions had issues and errors.
This is my second time using this video to do a Windows 10 fresh install. Thanks a Mill...Darin..keep up the great work....
Thank you!!!! I have been searching for the past 4 hours trying to figure out how to make this work and your video was so incredibly easy to follow, it just made it so easy!
Muchísimas gracias por este video, al fin una explicación certera y confiable! Te Ganaste un suscriptor, saludos desde Chile.
This was outstanding, thank you for saving my day!
Hey dude - 1 year later and this just saved me. I appreciate this a lot
Darin Wood, you are the cure to the hours I've spent troubleshooting my windows booting issue. nobody had the answer except you. may your family be blessed, take m entire bank account. you are my life saver. Thank you Darin Wood, stay blessed.
Sorry but what do i have to do with the usb after finished it? How to boot it?
@@duckramona1992did you ever figure this out ?
This dude saved my nuts after a failed windows reset using my sister’s mac. You’re the best thank you so much
I almost never leave comments on youtube videos, but I couldn't not thank you for your time and effort.
Absolute champion. Thanks so much. This was a real issue for me
Worked on macOS Catalina. You ara a god! THANK YOU!
Excellent. Nothing on internet works except your solution! Thanks bro!
Man, that is exactly what i was searching for. That is not an easy task to create a bootable usb with M1 chip, but you made it easy. Bless you.
Thank you so much! I spent 5-6 hours trying to figure out how to get Windows to work on my PC and this worked!
“im not going to go through it because i already did it”
great tutorial really helpful
terminal just decided to not let me enter password
Thank you, Darin. After so many failed attempts, your solution finally worked. Thanks again.
Thanks a lot for this man. I tried everything on the whole internet and this is the only thing that worked.
Thanks for taking the time to do this, even though there are a million other videos similar. But you are straight to the point, and it makes it so much easier to follow along.
OMFG it acc worked, this guy has saved me countless days of trying to fix my mac. Thx sooo much
The only video that REALLY WORK! THANKSS!!!!❤
2024 and this works like a charm! I thought I was toast, but your tutorial helped!
I almost lost hope with my Mac but then i saw your video. Thank you so much for this!!!
after 5 plus hours of troubleshooting it turns out the beginning disk utility formatting that you suggested did the trick, god bless you sir. Liked and Subscribed.
Thank you for the super clear instructions! I know nothing about coding or commands. This was my very first time opening and using the Terminal, but I followed your instructions and my install.swm is splitting! I can't wait to install Windows to my new PC. Thank you!
You are amazing man, this is the only tutorial that worked for me!!! Congrats
This is the best video i've ever seen. great work and so helpful!!!!
If you have Windows-Install issues (0x0…), just change 4000 to 3500. This helped for me.
Wow, your guide made it super easy to create a Win boot USB on my Mac! Now, if only my PC would recognize the harddrive after booting with the USB...
I’m having the same problem! Find a fix yet?
@@dallybuilds17 In my instance, a laptop that we haven't turned on in about 12 months, it seems there was a serious failure with the HD.
I got terrified after seeing all the fake applications out there with bots supporting it that this would be worse, but I’m happy to inform that this DOES in fact work beautifully and I now have windows 11 on my first pc build thanks to this video.
perfect explanation. had no trouble with anything related to this process after watching. Thank you!
The only approach that worked with me on MacOs. Thank you so much!
Great tutorial - many other tutorials simply didn't work on my machine, and didn't delve any deeper than the default tools offered by Apple. Definitely download the ISO from the exact location described here
After doing all the steps mentioned in the video , just restart your computer and once you hear the Mac sound starting up sound keep pressing alt(options) until the boot menu shows up then choose the right icon . Hopefully that helps.
OMG it worked after a few tries and various errors - had to change from zsh to bash and had to put sudo in front of last split command to run command as an administrator .legend thx