Tabular array of contents

  1. Video
    1. Direct Download Links
      1. Checking Installation ISO Checksums
        1. Creating a Windows 10 UEFI Bootable USB
          1. Checking your Install.wim File Size
            1. Software Install
              1. Splitting the Install.wim File into < 4.0 GB Install.swm Files
                1. Formatting a USB Wink Drive using DiskUtil
                  1. Copying Windows Setup Files
                  2. Creating a Windows 10 Legacy Bootable USB (Unsupported)

                  Video

                  Equally the Windows ten Media Creation Tool is an application it cannot run on Mac Os. The Windows 10 Software Download Folio will therefore display as direct download links:

                  You volition prompted to select your "Edition". This actually displays the version every bit the ISO is a multi-edition ISO which covers all OEM and Retail Licenses:

                  Once yous have selected Windows x select Ostend:

                  Side by side you will demand to select the Language:

                  Notation:

                  • English International = English (Uk)
                  • English = English (U.s.)

                  Once you accept made your option, select Confirm:

                  You volition be presented a 64 Bit and a 32 Fleck Download Link. When y'all highlight these download links you lot will see the direct download links to Microsoft's servers and a time limited download token:

                  On the download folio, there will be an choice to verify your Download. Clicking this will brandish the SHA256 checksum for each ISO:

                  Checking Installation ISO Checksums

                  To check the Checksum we will use the Terminal Become to Launchpad and and so select Other:

                  Then select the Terminal:

                  Type in:

                  cd Downloads

                  Then type in:

                  shasum -a 256 YOURISOFILENAME.iso

                  I recommend using copying your ISO file name and pasting opposed to trying to blazon information technology out. Once done printing [↵].

                  Select OK:

                  The ISO Checksum should lucifer Microsoft'southward website. If it does not retry the download as your ISO is corrupt:

                  Creating a Windows 10 UEFI Bootable USB

                  All systems manufactured in 2012 or later have a UEFI BIOS with Secure Kick. Windows 10 installation media should exist setup to suit these technologies.

                  Only 64 Flake Operating Systems are supported with a UEFI Boot.

                  A GPT partition scheme allows more than 4 partitions on a SSD/HDD which ways in that location are multiple recovery partitions created during the Windows install making the Windows x Kicking more robust. A MBR partitioning scheme on the other hand but had i boot partition which could become easily corrupted rendering the Windows 10 OS Unbootable.

                  Secure Boot prevents malicious lawmaking from Booting up before Windows x, allowing only signed code to Boot. This allows windows 10 and its inbuilt security to Boot before ransomware. Older Windows versions such as Windows XP and Windows vii were normally crippled by ransomware as they did not employ Secure Boot.

                  Checking your Install.wim File Size

                  A Windows ten UEFI Bootable USB needs to use the GPT Partition Scheme with a FAT32 Partition. The FAT32 file organisation unfortunately has an upper limit of 4.0 GB and in that location is usually an install.wim file on the directly download links ISO which exceeds 4.0 GB (this depends on the Windows 10 Version and Linguistic communication). As a consequence most Linux Bootable USB utilities volition either truncate the install.wim giving incomplete installation media or format the partition equally NTFS meaning the Bootable USB won't pass Secure Boot.

                  Double click the ISO file to open up information technology in Finder.

                  Become to the sources folder:

                  Wait for the install.wim and copy it to the Downloads folder:

                  Motion your mouse to the top of the Window, select File and select Get Info. If the file size exceeds 4.0 GB (4,294,967,296 Bytes) then it exceeds the upper limit for the FAT32 file format and needs to exist carve up into 2 install.swm files. We will re-create it to the downloads folder and split it.

                  If it does not exceed this limit you shouldn't re-create the install.wim over to the Downloads binder or try to split information technology.

                  Software Install

                  On a Mac arrangement we need to install a utility chosen wimlib which we can use to split the install.wim file into two smaller install.swm files. To do this we beginning need to install brew (which allows for commands similar to apt on Linux). Open up upward the terminal and type in:

                  /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/chief/install.sh)"

                  So printing [↵]. Input your password when prompted to authorise the install:

                  Select [↵] to continue:

                  Brew will install:

                  In one case Mash has installed, utilize it to install wimlib. Type in:

                  brew install wimlib

                  So press [↵].

                  wimlib will now be installed:

                  Splitting the Install.wim File into < iv.0 GB Install.swm Files

                  Now type in:

                  wimlib-imagex separate Downloads/install.wim Downloads/install.swm 4000

                  Then press [↵].

                  Wait for wimlib to finish splitting the install.wim file into the two install.swm files. You will now have two install.swm files.

                  Formatting a USB Flash Bulldoze using DiskUtil

                  Nosotros now need to create a bare FAT32 formatted USB Flash Drive. Unfortunately if y'all employ the GUI to make a FAT32 formatted USB. The Windows 10 Install volition hang at copying files giving the error bulletin. This means the USB flash drive is not properly FAT32 formatted:

                  Windows could not prepare the computer to kick into the next phase of installation

                  Nosotros can fortunately employ the terminal to create a FAT32 formatted USB Flash Drive correctly. Insert a USB Flash Drive and open up a terminal and type in:

                  diskutil list

                  Printing [↵] to continue:

                  Look for the number of your disk, in most cases it will be disk2 (it should be external and the size as expected):

                  Type in the following:

                  diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS WIN_2004 MBR /dev/disk2

                  Although this line mentions MBR, Windows 10 will be installed using the GUID Partition Table (GPT).

                  Printing [↵] to continue.

                  You should now have a bare formatted FAT32 Bootable USB:

                  Copying Windows Setup Files

                  In this stage we are essentially manually copying all the setup files from the ISO to the Bootable USB. If the install.wim exceeds 4.0 GB, nosotros will copy everything across except this file and in its identify employ the 2 install.swm files.

                  Get to the mounted Windows x ISO. Copy all the folders to the USB except for the sources binder.

                  On the USB create a new folder:

                  Proper noun it sources:

                  Get to the sources folder on the ISO and the sources folder on the USB. Copy all the contents in the sources binder on the ISO except for the install.wim to the sources folder on the USB:

                  Instead of the install.wim, copy the two install.swm files:

                  Once the files have copied over y'all should at present take a Windows 10 Bootable USB that passes Secure Boot.

                  Creating a Windows 10 Legacy Bootable USB (Unsupported)

                  Unfortunately MAC OS has limited support for the NTFS file format used in a Legacy USB.

                  PCs manufactured before 2010 accept a Legacy Only BIOS and do not back up a UEFI Kicking. To install Windows 10 on these PCs you demand to create a Legacy Bootable USB. A Legacy USB must be used for a Windows 10 32 Bit Install.