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Using Boot Camp in OS X 10.10.5 to install Windows 10 Pro with my DVD, only led to Windows overwriting Disk 0 - Recovery. Windows 10 overwrites it as EFI. This causes issue when powering up the Mac holding [command]+[R].
Is there a way to install windows 10 to onto a USB flash drive? I basically want to use a 128 GB USB stick to run Windows 10, so that I can just plug it in to a pc and boot into a preinstalled version of Windows 10.
Is that possible? Many people want to install Windows 10 onto a USB flash drive. Unfortunately, Windows Installer does not allow you to install it to a USB flash drive.
Is there a way to install windows 10 to onto a USB flash drive? Yes, here you will find instructions on how to install any version of Windows 10 onto a USB flash drive and run Windows 10 from the USB flash drive. After the installation is complete, you can install programs and copy files to the USB drive, then you can take the USB flash drive to anywhere you want to go and use it on any computer, whether it is a Legacy BIOS or UEFI computer. Tutorial to install Windows 10 on a USB flash drive with. Connect the USB flash drive to the computer.
Download and install WinToUSB, then run it as administrator. Click the button, then click the button and select the Windows 10 installation ISO file from the open dialog box. WinToUSB scans for and lists installable operating systems in the Windows 10 installation ISO. Please select the edition of Windows you want to install, then click 'Next'.
Select the USB flash drive in the drop-down list. If the USB drive is not correctly recognized by WinToUSB, you need to click the button for the program to recognize the USB drive. After you select the USB drive, a pop-up will appear asking you if you want to format it to continue, tick the 'MBR for BIOS and UEFI' checkbox, then click 'Yes'.
After clicking 'Yes', WinToUSB begins formatting. Please wait until that format operation is complete. After successfully formated the USB drive, select the installation mode, then click 'Next'. After clicking 'Next', WinToUSB begins installing Windows 10 to the USB drive.
It takes some time to install. After installation restart the computer and change BIOS to boot from your USB drive.
Windows 10 normal installation starts up and you have to complete all the installation steps. After that, you can install programs, copy files, etc. Follow these simple steps, you can create a Windows 10 To Go on a USB flash drive easily.
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Click to expand.The easiest way to do this, by far, is to burn the ISO to a DVD. The reason being is that current builds of Windows 10 now exceed the FAT32 file size limit and consequently you can't UEFI boot from a flash drive as the install.wim file is too large for the file system. A USB flash drive must be formatted as FAT32 in order to comply with UEFI.
NTFS is not supported. A DVD's file system does not have this limitation and will allow you to choose legacy or UEFI when you hold down the OPTION key at boot up. Yes, it's slower, but it works perfectly. Click to expand.Hey sorry for being a month late to reply, but better late than never Burning a DVD might be the easiest way (though it never worked for me booting in UEFI mode, just CSM), but i always seem to have none left when i need them the most, so i figured out the BootCamp UEFI install by just messing with plist file - I always have a 8GB USB stick around. I said 'i figured it out' because I choose not to follow any online instruction for it (and there are plenty on making USB installation stick if your Mac have Superdrive also), since every version of Bootcamp has different entries in plist and all I could google at the moment were ML/Mavericks guides. So, without further ado, You basically just go through the plist removing all MacPro5,1 and MacPro5 lines from it (I've left MacPro2,1 etc since they're of no interest to me or this method). After that, you'll have one entry/line or string with MacPro6,1 - the only MP that supports Win EFI boot.
You just delete 6 and put 5 there, so that string now reads MacPro5,1. For Sierra 10.12.5 it is in PreWindows10OnlyModels. Now go to BootCamp Assistant, and you'll have option to make USB installation stick that will boot into EFI mode (although the stick will be Master Boot Record instead of GPT, it will work flawlessly). I am attaching both plist files for you to go through them and see what I did, but I encourage you to do your own edits if you're not on macOS 10.12.5 and therefor probably have different Bootcamp version and different info.plist file. Also, one more thing, BC Assistant will download Bootcamp 4 for some reason unknown to me. Download from Apple's website version 5.1. And save it to the thumb drive or DVD.
Hey sorry for being a month late to reply, but better late than never Burning a DVD might be the easiest way (though it never worked for me booting in UEFI mode, just CSM), but i always seem to have none left when i need them the most, so i figured out the BootCamp UEFI install by just messing with plist file - I always have a 8GB USB stick around. I said 'i figured it out' because I choose not to follow any online instruction for it (and there are plenty on making USB installation stick if your Mac have Superdrive also), since every version of Bootcamp has different entries in plist and all I could google at the moment were ML/Mavericks guides. So, without further ado, You basically just go through the plist removing all MacPro5,1 and MacPro5 lines from it (I've left MacPro2,1 etc since they're of no interest to me or this method). After that, you'll have one entry/line or string with MacPro6,1 - the only MP that supports Win EFI boot. You just delete 6 and put 5 there, so that string now reads MacPro5,1. For Sierra 10.12.5 it is in PreWindows10OnlyModels.
Now go to BootCamp Assistant, and you'll have option to make USB installation stick that will boot into EFI mode (although the stick will be Master Boot Record instead of GPT, it will work flawlessly). I am attaching both plist files for you to go through them and see what I did, but I encourage you to do your own edits if you're not on macOS 10.12.5 and therefor probably have different Bootcamp version and different info.plist file. Also, one more thing, BC Assistant will download Bootcamp 4 for some reason unknown to me.
Download from Apple's website version 5.1. And save it to the thumb drive or DVD. I've just seen new plist in 10.12.6.
Just one string of MacPro5,1 and one 2,1. Not a mention of MacPro6,1. Have to try few things and I will report back. Hopefully this evening. Edit: LOL, sorry, I've tricked myself into looking edited version of bootcamp info.plist as it is new, updated on from 10.12.6. No changes were made to Bootcamp Assistant updating from 10.12.5 to 10.12.6 so the same should apply. You can try the attached version, or check twice that you have erased all MacPro5 and MacPro5,1 strings and replaced MacPro6,1 string in PreWindows10OnlyModels with MacPro5,1.
I've just seen new plist in 10.12.6. Just one string of MacPro5,1 and one 2,1.
Not a mention of MacPro6,1. Have to try few things and I will report back. Hopefully this evening. Edit: LOL, sorry, I've tricked myself into looking edited version of bootcamp info.plist as it is new, updated on from 10.12.6. No changes were made to Bootcamp Assistant updating from 10.12.5 to 10.12.6 so the same should apply.
You can try the attached version, or check twice that you have erased all MacPro5 and MacPro5,1 strings and replaced MacPro6,1 string in PreWindows10OnlyModels with MacPro5,1.