There are a couple of reasons why you would want to create Windows 8.1 bootable USB flash drive on your Mac. Maybe you’ve decided to install Windows 8.1 on Mac without Boot Camp; or maybe your PC is unbootable and you want to prepare a bootable USB using the ISO file that you have on your external hard drive; or you want to easily create bootable Windows 8.1 USB without installing new tools.
If you are using a recent version of Mac OS X, preparing Windows 8.1 USB is fairly simple and can be done without having to install additional software on your Mac. The only thing is that you need to have a Windows 8.1 ISO image file in order to prepare bootable Windows 8.1 USB on your Mac.
Follow the given below instructions to create Windows 8.1 bootable USB on Mac:
Step 1: Connect your USB flash drive to Mac and backup your files as all data will be formatted during the process.
To create a bootable USB for macOS Mojave on windows 10, the very first thing you need is the macOS Mojave. Since the macOS Mojave Public beta has been released, you have to download that from App store if you are a developer account. If you don’t have a developer account follow the below steps to download macOS Mojave. This video will show you how to create a bootable Windows 7 8 USB on a Mac. You can use the bootcamp assistant to create a bootable Windows 7 8 USB on a Mac. However the option may not be highlighted in your bootcamp assistant. To make the option appear you can try the following steps. Click on Go then Utilities.
Step 2: Next, transfer Windows 8.1 ISO file to your Mac. If you already have a copy of the ISO file on your Mac, you can safely skip this step. If you don’t have the ISO on Mac, you can follow our how to transfer files between Windows and Mac guide to quickly transfer the ISO file. And if the PC unbootable, you can follow our how to backup data from a unbootable PC (the easy way) guide to copy ISO file to the USB drive first and then copy the same to your Mac.
Step 3: Launch Boot Camp Assistant software. To do that, click on Launchpad icon, click Other, and then click Boot Camp Assistant icon to open Boot Camp Assistant software.
Step 4: Once Boot Camp Assistant is launched, click on the Continue button.
Step 5: Uncheck the option titled Install Windows 7 or later version (we use this option while installing Windows on Mac using Boot Camp), and also uncheck Download the latest Windows support software from Apple option if you’re preparing this bootable Windows 8.1 drive to install Windows 8.1 on a PC.
Make sure that the option titled Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk option is checked before clicking on the Continue button.
NOTE: As mentioned earlier, keep the option Download the latest Windows support software from Apple checked if you’re going to use this bootable USB on your Mac (this Mac) and not on a PC. As the support software is designed specifically for each Mac, it might not function properly if you try to run the downloaded support software on a Mac other than the model that you’re using to prepare the bootable USB.
And if you plan to install Windows 8.1 on this Mac, keep that option checked to automatically download all support software on to the USB so that you can easily install all drivers after installing Windows 8.1 on your Mac.
Step 6: In the following screen, click the Choose button to browse to the Windows 8.1 ISO image file. Select the ISO image file and then click Continue button to proceed further.
Click Continue button again when you see “The drive will be erased” warning to begin formatting the drive and then copying Windows files. If you have selected the option Download the latest Windows support software from Apple option, Boot Camp Assistant will also download required drivers from Apple servers. So if you have selected that option, make sure that your Mac is connected to the web.
Step 7: Once Boot Camp Assistant completes its business, you’ll see “The selected drive has been formatted and the Windows installation image has been copied” message. And if you have selected Download support software from Apple option in Step 5, you’ll see “Install this Windows support software after installing Windows” message. Click Quit button. That’s it!
You can now connect it to a PC or your Mac and begin installing Windows 8.1 operating system.
Apple recently renamed its Macbook operating system OS X to macOS, and in addition introduced the upcoming macOS Sierra operating system, the macOS Sierra is the most recent version of macOS.
How To Create macOS Sierra bootable USB Drive from Windows Desktop PC
The macOS Sierra bootable USB could be prepared on a Mac with out the assistance of third-party tools, similar to how Windows bootable USB could be ready from Command Prompt. However, in case your Mac system isn’t bootable, you’ll be able to prepare macOS Sierra bootable USB proper from Windows PC as nicely.
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On this guide, we’ll see tips on how to create macOS Sierra bootable USB drive on Windows 10, Windows 8 or Windows 7 Desktop.
What you will need:
- macOS Sierra DMG file
- A USB flash drive with at least 16 GB of storage
- A PC running Windows Desktop PC
- Trial copy of TransMac
After getting all above mentioned things, you can also make macOS Sierra bootable USB from a Windows Desktop PC
Step 1: Connect a USB drive with at least 16 GB of storage space to your Windows PC and move all data from USB drive to a safe place as the drive will be erased while preparing macOS Sierra bootable USB.
Step 2: Go to this page of TransMac and download the newest version of TransMac software program in your Desktop PC. TransMac is a paid software program however the 15 days trial copy can be use to prepare bootable USB without any issues. in case you typically want to prepare macOS bootable USB from Windows, you must purchase the software.
Once the TransMac is downloaded, double click on the setup file to run the installer and get it installed in your Windows Desktop PC.
Step 3: Run TransMac software program as administrator. right-click on TransMac and Run as administrator option. If you see the TransMac Trial dialog box, Click on Run button.
Step 4: Once TransMac is open, in the left panel of the program, you will notice the linked USB drive that you just need to use to prepare macOS Sierra bootable USB. Proper-click on the USB drive and then click on Restore with Disk Image
Click Yes when you see the following warning dialog
Step 7: Clicking Yes will open Restore Disk Picture to Drive dialog field. Under Disk picture to restore, click on the small button with drive icon Click on it to browse to macOS Sierra DMG file. Choose the DMG file after which click on Open.
And Finally, click on OK .
Step 8: Once you see the warning dialog field, click on Yes to start preparing your macOS Sierra bootable USB. The bootable USB should be prepared in about 30 minutes.
Once the bootable USB of Sierra is prepared, you possibly can connect it to your Mac system and start installing macOS Sierra from it. Good luck!