You can download Windows 10 directly from Microsoft for free using this link. That's right - everything we're going to do here is 100% legal and sanctioned by Microsoft. You can download the ISO file straight from Microsoft. In this tutorial we'll show you how you can set this up from a Mac.

Luckily, Microsoft makes a tool that you can use to install Windows from a USB storage drive (or 'thumbdrive' as they are often called).īut what if you don't have a second PC for setting up that USB storage drive in the first place? So it can be a pain to install Windows on a new computer.

Start the 'Disk Utility.app' and unmount (don't eject) the drive.Most new PCs don't come with DVD drives anymore. If you see the error dd: /dev/diskN: Resource busy, make sure the disk is not in use. Use the same command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M. If you see the error dd: Invalid number '1m', you are using GNU dd. Using /dev/rdisk instead of /dev/disk may be faster. Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command in the previous example, N would be 2)Įxecute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m (replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located for example. Run diskutil list again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices dmg extension as necessary, mv ~/path/to/target.img dmg ending on the output file automatically. img using the convert option of hdiutil (e.g., hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso) Open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/ or query Terminal in Spotlight)Ĭonvert the.

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