- 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.
- Windows 10 creation tool. When on a Mac computer, the tool is downloadable as an
.iso
disk image from the Microsoft's website. - Terminal. The application is located in
Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app
- Mount the disk image containing the creation tool by double clicking on it.
- Run
diskutil list
which lists all connected internal and external drives. - Run
diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "WINDOWS10" MBR disk2
. The disk2 is the name of the USB drive from the results ofdiskutil list
and is dependent on the number of drives connected to the system. - Run
cp -rp /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/* /Volumes/WINDOWS10
to copy the contents of the.iso
disk image to the USB