In order to Create Bootable USB for Mac on Windows 10 with DiskMaker X 6, first, you have to install macOS High Sierra or lower version of mac on VirtualBox or VMware on Windows 10. Once you installed macOS 10.13 High Sierra follows the below steps and create a Bootable USB for mac on Windows 10.
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Boot Camp Assistant User Guide
You need an external USB drive to install Windows on older Mac computers. To find out whether you have a Mac that requires an external USB drive, see the “Learn more” section in the Apple Support article Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant. If your Mac is a newer model that doesn’t require a USB drive, follow the instructions in Install Windows on your newer Mac using Boot Camp instead.
What you need
- The keyboard and mouse or trackpad that came with your Mac. (If they aren’t available, use a USB keyboard and mouse.)
- A blank 16 GB or larger external USB 2 flash drive, formatted as MS-DOS (FAT).To format an external USB drive as MS-DOS (FAT), use Disk Utility, located in /Applications/Utilities. In Disk Utility, choose View > All Devices, select the USB drive in the sidebar, then click Erase in the toolbar. In the dialog, enter a name for the drive, choose MS-DOS (FAT) from the Format pop-up menu, choose Master Boot Record from the Scheme pop-up menu, then click Erase.
- A full-installation, 64-bit version of Windows 10 on a disk image (ISO file) or other installation media.You can download a Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO File) from Microsoft.
- Sufficient free storage space on your startup drive. For information about the amount of free space needed, see the Apple Support Article Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant.
Before you begin
Before you install Windows, make sure you back up important files.
You can use Time Machine or any other method to back up your files. For information about backing up files, see Back up your files with Time Machine and Ways to back up or protect your files.
Perform the installation
Do the following steps in order.
Step 1: Check for software updates
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Before you install Windows, install all macOS updates.
- On your Mac, log in as an administrator, quit all open apps, then log out any other users.
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Software Update, then install all available updates.If your Mac restarts after installing an update, open Software Update again to install any additional updates.
Step 2: Prepare your Mac for Windows
Boot Camp Assistant prepares your Mac by creating a new partition for Windows named BOOTCAMP and downloading the Boot Camp support software.
Important: If you’re using a portable Mac, connect it to a power source before continuing.
- Connect an external USB drive or insert a flash drive into the USB port on your Mac; keep it connected or inserted while you install Windows and the Windows support software.
- On your Mac, open Boot Camp Assistant , located in /Applications/Utilities.
- At the introduction screen, click Continue.The system is checked for total available disk space. Older Time Machine snapshots and cached iCloud files are removed to make space for Boot Camp. This process may take a long time to complete (you can click the Stop button to skip this process).
- At the Select Tasks step, select all the tasks, then click Continue.
- At the Create Bootable USB Drive for Windows Installation step, choose the Windows ISO image and the USB drive, then click Continue.The Windows files are copied to the USB drive. This process may take a long time to complete (you can click the Stop button to interrupt this process).
- At the Create a Partition for Windows step, specify a partition size by dragging the divider between the macOS and Windows partitions. If you have multiple internal hard drives, you can select a different hard drive from the one running macOS and create a single partition on that drive to use solely for Windows.
- Click Install.
When this step is complete, the Windows installer starts.
Step 3: Install Windows
- In the Windows installer, follow the onscreen instructions.
- When you’re asked where to install Windows, select the BOOTCAMP partition (you may need to scroll through the list of partitions to see it), then click Next.WARNING: Do not create or delete a partition, or select any other partition. Doing so may delete the entire contents of your macOS partition.
- Continue following the onscreen instructions to finish installing Windows.After you install the Windows software, your Mac automatically restarts using Windows.
- Follow the onscreen instructions to set up Windows.
Step 4: Install Boot Camp on Windows
After installing Windows, Boot Camp drivers that support your Mac hardware start installing.
Note: If the support software doesn’t install automatically, you need to install it manually. For instructions, see the Apple Support article If the Boot Camp installer doesn't open after using Boot Camp Assistant.
- In the Boot Camp installer in Windows, follow the onscreen instructions.Important: Do not click the Cancel button in any of the installer dialogs.If a message appears that says the software you’re installing has not passed Windows Logo testing, click Continue Anyway.You don’t need to respond to installer dialogs that appear only briefly during installation, but if a dialog asks you to install device software, click Install.If nothing appears to be happening, there may be a hidden window that you must respond to. Look behind open windows.
- When the installation is complete, click Finish, then click Yes to restart your Mac.
- After your Mac restarts, follow the instructions for any other installers that appear.
See alsoGet started with Boot Camp on MacTroubleshoot Boot Camp Assistant problems on MacApple Support website: Boot Camp Support
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About a month ago, we talked about creating a bootable USB of macOS on a Mac with the help of a free app called DiskMaker X. The app is very easy-to-use and is updated to support the newest version of macOS.
UPDATE: If you’re looking to prepare macOS Sierra or Mojave bootable USB, please refer to our new how to create macOS Sierra bootable USB from Windows guide for step-by-step directions.
Even though it’s always a good idea to prepare macOS bootable USB on a computer running macOS only, at times you might come across situations where you have no options but prepare the bootable media of macOS on a Windows PC. Take, for instance, your Mac machine is unbootable and you’re unable to fix the issue or re-install the OS using the Recovery Assistant. Or maybe, the Recovery Assistant isn’t appearing when you hold down the Option key.
Mac users who don’t have access to a bootable Mac machine to prepare the bootable USB of macOS can take the help of a computer running Windows operating system for the job. The only thing is that you must have the DMG file of macOS.
If you have the DMG file of macOS and a USB flash drive of size greater than 16 GB, it’s easy to prepare the Mac OS X bootable USB on a Windows PC. Simply follow the given below instructions to prepare your bootable USB of macOS on a PC.
Create macOS Bootable USB on Windows 10
NOTE: The guide was originally written to prepare Yosemite bootable USB but the guide is compatible with the latest macOS Mojave as well.
Step 1: The first step is to download TransMac software and install the same on a PC running Windows operating system. Even though TransMac is a paid software, the 15-day trial copy is good enough to prepare the bootable USB of Mac on your PC.
Step 2: Stick in the USB drive that you want to boot and install macOS from and backup all data from it, if any. The drive will be erased completely during the process of making a bootable USB.
Step 3: Launch TransMac software with admin rights by right-clicking on TransMac icon on the desktop and then clicking Run as administrator. Upon launching the TransMac software, the Trial reminder dialog will appear. Simply click Run button to continue using the software.
Step 4: Once TransMac is launched, in the left pane, right-click on the USB drive that you would like to make as bootable, right-click on the same, and then click Restore with Disk Image option.
Click the Yes button when you see the warning message on your screen that the drive will be erased.
Step 5: Next, Restore Disk Image to Drive dialog will appear on the screen. Here, click the “…” button under Disk Image to restore to browse to the DMG file of macOS that you want to install using USB and open the same.
Finally, click OK button to begin preparing the bootable USB of macOS on your Windows PC.
Step 6: The TransMac tool, in our test, took a little over 90 minutes to prepare the bootable USB.
Once done, Restore Complete message will pop up on the screen. Close TransMac and safely remove the USB.
Step 7: Finally, connect the bootable USB to your Mac, turn on your Mac, hold down the Option key, and then select the USB drive to begin installing macOS. Good luck!