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Create Windows 10 installer on USB drive in macOS 10.13 High Sierra
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Prerequisites

  1. An empty USB drive with 8Gb or greater capacity. The drive must be formatted in the FAT32 (MS-DOS) file system. A non-empty drive will be formatted as part of the process and existing data will be lost.
  2. Windows 10 creation tool. When on a Mac computer, the tool is downloadable as an .iso disk image from the Microsoft's website.
  3. Terminal. The application is located in Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app

Process

  1. Mount the disk image containing the creation tool by double clicking on it.
  2. Run diskutil list which lists all connected internal and external drives.
  3. Run diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "WINDOWS10" MBR disk2. The disk2 is the name of the USB drive from the results of diskutil list and is dependent on the number of drives connected to the system.
  4. Run cp -rp /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/* /Volumes/WINDOWS10 to copy the contents of the .iso disk image to the USB drive.
  5. Wait until the copying process finishes. Be patient as there is no indicator in Terminal to track the task's progress.
  6. Eject the USB drive and remove it from the USB port.
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