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Create USB installer with Boot Camp Assistant After downloading the ISO file, you'll need to use Boot Camp Assistant to move it to a bootable USB drive. Insert a USB flash drive to your Mac. Make sure it's at least 8GB, which is usually marked on the USB stick. You can also check by right-clicking the USB drive on your desktop and clicking Get Info. Check if the number next to Capacity is at least 8GB. All the files in the drive will be deleted, so make sure there are no important documents inside. Open Boot Camp Assistant.
The easiest way to launch it is through Spotlight Search, which you can bring up by pressing Command and Spacebar. Press Enter to launch the app.
Check the box for 'Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk' and deselect 'Install Windows 7 or later version.' .
Click Continue to proceed. Boot Camp Assistant will automatically locate the ISO file from your downloads folder, but make sure it is the right file.
Click the 'Choose' button and locate the ISO file. Make sure the destination disk is the USB thumb drive you've inserted. Click Continue.
It can take about 20 minutes to format and set up the USB installer on the Mac. When Boot Camp Assistant is done, the USB drive will be renamed to WININSTALL. Click Quit to close the app and then Eject the USB drive. You now have a bootable USB drive with the Windows 10 installer. You can use it to from scratch. We told you it was easy!
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Why a flash drive? A bootable external or internal hard drive works well for desktop Macs but presents a cumbersome problem for notebook Macs. A flash drive is a simple, inexpensive, and portable emergency boot device that can handle OS X or the macOS. Heck, it can even have both operating systems installed, letting you use the emergency USB flash drive to boot any of the Mac's you may have.
Even if you don’t use a notebook, you may want to have a bootable USB flash drive on hand. What You Will Need. We’ve chosen to use a 16 GB or larger flash drive as a minimum for two reasons.
First, a 16 GB flash drive is large enough to accommodate the current minimum amount of space required to install OS X directly from the install DVD, or macOS from a download from the Mac app store, or from the Recovery HD. Eliminating the need to pare down the OS to get it to fit on the USB flash drive significantly simplifies the installation process. Second, the cost of USB flash drives is falling. A 16 GB USB flash drive is large enough to install both a complete copy of the and some of your favorite applications or recovery utilities, making it a budget-friendly emergency device that can boot your Mac and possibly repair or recover its data and get it running again. It’s possible to install a bootable copy of OS X on USB flash drives smaller than 8 GB, but it requires fiddling around with OS X’s individual components and packages, removing the packages you don’t need, and paring down some of OS X’s capabilities. For this article, we’re going to forego the extra steps and all that fiddling, and instead install a fully functional copy of OS X onto a USB flash drive. We recommend a 16 GB or larger flash drive because it’s big enough to install a complete copy of OS X, with room to spare for a few applications.
Insert the USB flash drive into your Mac’s USB port. Launch Disk Utility, located at /Applications/Utilities/. In the list of drives attached to your Mac, select the USB flash drive device. In our case, it’s called 14.9 GB SanDisk Cruzer Media. (Like lumber, hard drives and flash drives are actually slightly smaller than their specs would have you believe.). Click the Partition tab.
Select 1 Partition from the Volume Scheme drop-down menu. Enter a descriptive name for your flash drive; we chose Boot Tools. Select Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) from the Format drop-down menu.
Click the Options button. Select GUID Partition Table from the list of available partition schemes. Click the Apply button. A sheet will drop down, warning you that you are about to erase all data from the disk. Click Partition. Disk Utility will format and partition your flash drive. Quit Disk Utility.
Before you begin the installation, a few notes about the process. As we mentioned earlier, USB flash drives are much slower at writing data. Since the installation process is all about writing data to the USB flash drive, it’s going to take quite some time. When we performed the installation, it took about two hours.
So be patient, and don’t worry about how slow some of the process seems; this is normal. You can expect to see plenty of beach balls and slow responses as you work your way through the installation process.