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 PostPost subject: Make a USB of a Windows install ISO via OS X?        Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:35 pm 
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I need to install Windows 8 release preview on my Windows laptop (its formatted now, can't do anything), but CDs are so unreliable, so I'm using USB.
However, I can't seem to make a Windows install USB very easily on OS X. Is there a way how? FYI, I'm using a Hackintosh with Snow Leo.
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 PostPost subject: Re: Make a USB of a Windows install ISO via OS X?        Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:46 pm 
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http://superuser.com/questions/421402/h ... g-mac-os-x

Looks like you'll have to use dd to make it work.

Edit: Oops, the dd method won't make it bootable.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Make a USB of a Windows install ISO via OS X?        Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:51 pm 
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linuxlove wrote:
http://superuser.com/questions/421402/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-windows-os-using-mac-os-x

Looks like you'll have to use dd to make it work.

Edit: Oops, the dd method won't make it bootable.

Hmm... I've tried that.
But will it be okay if I used a Windows machine to at least make it bootable? These USBs copy really slowly on OS X :(

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 PostPost subject: Re: Make a USB of a Windows install ISO via OS X?        Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:55 pm 
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 PostPost subject: Re: Make a USB of a Windows install ISO via OS X?        Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:27 pm 
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But will it be okay if I used a Windows machine to at least make it bootable? These USBs copy really slowly on OS X :(

It *should* work if you throw a bootsector on the disk. I can't say for sure, as I always created the boot sector first and then copied the files to disk instead of the other way around.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Make a USB of a Windows install ISO via OS X?        Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:56 pm 
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