download windows iso on mac to use on pc Installing Windows 10 on new PC using a Mac. or ask a friend who has a PC if you could borrow it to prepare a bootable copy. Just copy the ISO to your USB stick then copy it to the PC. Prepare Windows 10 ISO file. After you have downloaded the Windows 10 ISO, you need prepare it, this is especially important for Windows 7 users.. After obtaining the .iso file you can use the built in Disc Image burning tool or Microsoft .iso to USB/DVD tool to create a bootable DVD or USB (requires a blank DVD or USB flash stick of at least 4 GB). After downloading the .ISO file, right click it and click Burn disc image. Insert a blank DVD. Windows 8/8.1 users can mount the .ISO file and start the upgrade automatically. Learn more here. Important: If you are creating a bootable USB thumb drive, make sure the thumb drive is first formatted as FAT32. Connect the thumb drive. Right click thumbdrive. Make sure FAT32 is selected as the file system. For UEFI based systems. If your computer is UEFI based, these are normally systems that come pre-loaded with Windows 8 or later, you will need to prepare the ISO file for such a configuration or you will receive an error message during setup. The thumbdrive needs to be formatted as FAT32 and use the GPT partitioning scheme. To do this, you need to use Rufus, a small tool you can download for free. Can Windows be installed on a Mac? The requirements to run Windows 10 are quite restrictive in this case: to avoid nasty surprises we will also provide you with the minimum requirements and Apple Mac devices compatible with the procedure, so as not to make mistakes and not to ruin the original system installation. READ ALSO -> Windows vs Mac Comparison: Which System Is Best? How to install Windows on Mac. Minimum requirements. To install Windows 10 on Mac with , we will need to make sure that we meet the following minimum requirements: Intel processor Free disk space of at least 64GB, 128GB recommended External keyboard and mouse or trackpad (if using a desktop Mac computer) An empty USB stick of at least 16GB. Currently, Mac devices compatible with Windows 10 are specifically: MacBook Pro (2012 and newer) MacBook Air (2012 and newer) MacBook (2015 and newer) iMac Pro (2017) iMac (2012 and newer) (2012 and newer) Mac mini Server (fine 2012) (fine 2013) If we have one of these models or later upgrades, we can install Windows 10 without any particular problems . Do we own an older model of Mac? Perhaps the time has come to change it with a more recent model, such as those visible on the official Apple website. Get a Windows 10 image. In order to install Windows 10 on Mac, we will have to first get an ISO image of the Microsoft , so you can later install it with Boot Camp. Before proceeding we warn you that 64-bit version of Windows 10 is required , whether we choose the Home version or if we choose the Pro. To download an ISO image of Windows 10, let’s go to the download page with any PC running Windows 10 -> Download Windows 10. Let’s click Download the tool now to get the tool Media Creation Tool , useful for downloading the Windows ISO and installing it on a USB stick. Once the tool starts, we wait a few seconds for it to load, then click Accept , wait a few more seconds, then click Create installation media (USB Flash Drive, DVD or ISO file) for another PC . In the next screen we choose the language and the 64-bit architecture, click on After you and choose to save the system image by clicking on File ISO . By doing so we will be able to choose where to save the ISO image file, so that we can later move it to the Mac (in this case the USB key will only serve as a container to move the ISO file). To learn more about the topic, we refer you to reading our dedicated guide on how You can download Windows 10 Free with valid activation . Install Windows with Boot Camp. After having finished downloading Windows 10, it’s time to install it on our Mac, but only after moving the Windows 10 ISO image to the internal memory of the Mac (for the purpose we can get help from the USB key or from a external USB hard drive ). As soon as the ISO file is placed on the Mac, we open the app Assistente Boot Camp by opening the Launchpad in the bottom bar and pressing on the folder Other . Let’s click Keep it going and select, when requested, the Windows ISO image previously placed in a system folder. Now all we have to do is choose how much space to reserve for Windows 10 on the Mac disk (we recommend leaving at least 40 GB for Windows) and press the key Install to start the procedure. At the end the Mac will restart and we will be shown the classic screen for installing Windows, as if we were on a new PC; we install Windows normally as seen in our guide How to install Windows 10 from scratch (clean install) . Now we will not have to do is wait for the end of the process and the restart of the Mac in “Windows mode”. Windows support software. After the installation and the initial welcome screen, the Mac in Windows mode should ask us to immediately install the Apple support software, necessary to better support the hardware and to manage dual booting. If the installation procedure does not start automatically at the first start of the Windows system, we can force the start by taking us to File Explorer , by clicking OSXRESERVED , taking us to the BootCamp folder and clicking on the executable Setup.exe . After installation we will be able to switch between systems without problems and get full support for the Mac hardware. How to switch from one system to another. After completing the installation procedure with Boot Camp, we can return to macOS via the Boot Camp icon in the system tray in Windows, with which to select the volume macOS and restart the Mac. To switch from macOS to Windows, we use the preferences panel Startup Disk to select the Boot Camp volume and immediately restart the Mac. If we want to choose between macOS and Windows already when the computer starts, simply hold down the key Option (O Option ) after restarting the Mac. By doing so, the screen for choosing between the two operating systems will appear; if we do not press this key, the computer will start with the last system started. New Mac compatibility with M1 chip. The new processors produced directly by Apple (called Apple M1) are based on the ARM platform, therefore Boot Camp cannot be used at this time to start Windows on your Mac or next generation MacBook in parallel. This doesn’t mean we can’t use Windows 10 on Mac M1, but to do that we’ll first need to install advanced virtualization software like Parallels and sign up for Windows 10 Insider Preview program , so you can the ARM version of Windows 10 . To learn more we can also read our guide Virtual PCs and systems emulation: Linux, Windows and Mac on the same computer . Is Windows 11 compatible with Boot Camp? The new Microsoft operating system currently cannot be virtualized with Boot Camp or with other virtualization programs, since one of the most restrictive requirements of Windows 11 is the presence of the TPM 2.0 chip , currently the prerogative of traditional PCs e absent on all Macs . While waiting for further updates on Windows 11, we suggest you read our guides right away Check if your PC is ready for Windows 11 and minimum requirements e Differences between Windows 10 and Windows 11 . Conclusions. By following all the steps seen in the guide we will be able to use Windows 10 together with macOS directly on the Mac, without necessarily having to use a PC dedicated to Windows programs. Obviously the best performances are obtained with the native system, but Windows 10 does not look bad at all on modern Macs. Unfortunately on new Macs with M1 chips we cannot start Boot Camp, but we can only use Parallels to start the ARM version of Windows 10. If we are looking for a method to try macOS on Windows, we recommend that you read our guide How to install macOS on Virtualbox (on Windows PC) . How can I download windows 10 iso for my new PC using a Macbook? I've got a new PC without an operating system, and a which I currently use. I want to download windows 10 from microsoft and burn it onto my usb, but the microsoft website seems to recognise that im using a macbook to download it's iso and gives me different options to download the iso to. Appreciate any help. BC AdBot (Login to Remove) BleepingComputer.com. #2 jonuk76. BC Advisor 3,521 posts OFFLINE Gender: Male Location: Wales, UK Local time: 07:27 PM. You can download the ISO using a Macbook. Just choose whatever language/region version is appropriate to you. You just don't have the option of using the Windows 10 Media Creation tool using Mac OS, so you'll need to use another method to create a bootable USB drive (min capacity 8 Gb). You should then be able to use Bootcamp Assistant in Mac OS to create a bootable USB drive. There are other methods if necessary, but that one is probably the easiest. #3 fman47. Topic Starter Members 4 posts OFFLINE Local time: 02:27 AM. You can download the ISO using a Macbook. Just choose whatever language/region version is appropriate to you. You just don't have the option of using the Windows 10 Media Creation tool using Mac OS, so you'll need to use another method to create a bootable USB drive (min capacity 8 Gb). You should then be able to use Bootcamp Assistant in Mac OS to create a bootable USB drive. There are other methods if necessary, but that one is probably the easiest. I've seen online of using boot camp assistant, but it seems apple has updated it so that BCA is no longer able to burn windows iso onto a usb. UNetbootin. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file. Features. UNetbootin can create a bootable Live USB drive. It loads distributions either by downloading a ISO (CD image) files for you, or by using an ISO file you've already downloaded. Using UNetbootin. Select an ISO file or a distribution to download, select a target drive (USB Drive or Hard Disk), then reboot once done. If your USB drive doesn't show up, reformat it as FAT32. If you used the "USB Drive" install mode : After rebooting, boot from the USB drive. On PCs, this usually involves pressing a button such as Esc or F12 immediately after you turn on your computer, while on Macs, you should hold the before OSX boots. If you used the "Hard Disk" install mode : After rebooting, select the UNetbootin entry from the Windows Boot Menu. Supported Distributions. UNetbootin has built-in support for automatically downloading and loading the following distributions, though installing other distributions is also supported: UNetbootin can also be used to load various system utilities, including: Installing Other Distributions Using UNetbootin. Download and run UNetbootin, then select the "disk image" option and supply it with an ISO (CD image). UNetbootin doesn't use distribution-specific rules for making your live USB drive, so most Linux ISO files should load correctly using this option. However, not all distributions support booting from USB, and some others require extra boot options or other modifications before they can boot from USB drives, so these ISO files will not work as-is. Also, ISO files for non-Linux operating systems have a different boot mechanism, so don't expect them to work either. Distribution X isn't on the list of supported distributions, will it work? UNetbootin isn't able to download the distribution, what should I do? Download the ISO straight from the website, then provide it to UNetbootin via the diskimage option. My USB stick isn't booting, what should I do? Reformat the USB drive as FAT32, then use UNetbootin again to put your distribution on the USB stick. My USB stick/hard drive isn't detected, what should I do? Reformat the USB drive as FAT32, then use UNetbootin again. If it still isn't showing up, use the targetdrive command line option. How do I use UNetbootin from the command line? How does UNetbootin work, and what does it do? Where can I report bugs, submit patches, etc? First, make sure you are using the latest version available on this website. » See Github Issues to file a bug report. » See Github Pull Requests to submit a . Does UNetbootin have any spyware, viruses, trojans, or other malware? No; though some anti-virus products may raise "Trojan.generic" warnings due to the auto-uninstall feature, these are false positives. Just make sure you obtain UNetbootin from this site, not some shady third-party source. If you're absolutely paranoid, you can check the source code and compile it yourself. What translations are available, and how can I use them? A number of translations are included in the latest UNetbootin release. See the Translations Page for the status of each. If a translation corresponding to your system's native language has already been included into UNetbootin, it should automatically load the corresponding translation. Alternatively, you can force the language to use via the lang=es command-line option, where you substitute es with the the 2-letter ISO 639-1 code for your language. Can I help translate? If you'd like to help translate this website, join the project on Transifex, then edit translations either on this website or on Transifex. If you'd like to help translate the UNetbootin program itself, please use Launchpad Translations. If you are new to Launchpad, you will first have to join the corresponding Ubuntu Translators group for the language you intend to translate. For information on using the Launchpad Translations system, see the translations help page. Removal Instructions (Applicable only to Hard Disk installs) If using Windows, UNetbootin should prompt you to remove it the next time you boot into Windows. Alternatively, you can remove it via Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. If using Linux, re-run the UNetbootin executable (with root priveledges), and press OK when prompted to uninstall. Removal is only required if you used the "Hard Drive" installation mode; to remove the bootloader from a USB drive, back up its contents and reformat it. Uninstalling UNetbootin simply removes the UNetbootin entry from your boot menu; if you installed an operating system to a partition using UNetbootin, removing UNetbootin will not remove the OS. To manually remove a Linux installation, you will have to restore the Windows bootloader using "fixmbr" from a recovery CD, and use Parted Magic to delete the Linux partition and expand the Windows partition. Where's the source code, and how can I compile or modify it? Source code is on Github, though you may prefer a tarball of the latest release. License. UNetbootin was created and written by Geza Kovacs (Github: gkovacs, Launchpad: gezakovacs, contact info). Translators are listed on the translations page. UNetbootin is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or above. Site materials, documentation, screenshots, and logos are licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0. Other open-source projects from the creators of UNetbootin. HabitLab. A Chrome extension to help you waste less time online (on sites like Facebook, Youtube, etc) by experimenting with different interventions (news feed blockers, comment hiders, and more) to find the ones that work best for you. How to quickly create a macOS bootable USB on Windows 10. Here are the steps to create a macOS Catalina bootable USB media with GPT partition support on Windows 10 to rescue your Mac computer. It does not matter whether you use macOS or Windows 10. It’s just a matter of time until your device will refuse to start, which could happen for many reasons, including (and not limited to) file corruption, hardware failure, and buggy update. If the unexpected happens with an Apple computer, you can use a macOS bootable USB with the installation media to repair it. This is one of the main reasons you should consider making a macOS bootable USB when your device works properly. However, if none of your devices (MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, or Mac Mini) are not working when you need them the most, then you can use a PC to rescue your Apple device. You can use a Windows 10, Windows 8.1, or Windows 7 device to quickly create a USB bootable installation media to reinstall macOS Monterey, Big Sur, or Catalina on your Mac. In this guide, you will learn the steps to create a macOS Monterey bootable USB installation on Windows 10, which you can use to reinstall or upgrade the Apple OS. Requirements. Before proceeding, you’ll need the following: Broken Mac computer running macOS (version 10, 11, 12, or higher). A trial copy of the TransMac software. One high-quality USB flash drive with 16GB of storage. Copy of macOS (DMG file). Create macOS bootable USB installation media. To create a bootable USB drive with macOS, use these steps: Connect the USB flash drive. (If you have any data on the flash drive, remember to create a back it up, as everything on the drive will be erased.) Right-click the TransMac app and select the Run as administrator option. Click the Run button. (If you use the trial version, wait 15 seconds.) Right-click the USB flash drive, select the Format Disk for Mac option from the left navigation pane. Format Disk for Mac using GPT partition. Click the Yes button to format the drive on the warning message. Confirm a name for the drive. For example, “macOS bootable USB.” Click the OK button. Click the Yes button. Click the OK button. Right-click the USB flash drive and select the Restore with Disk Image option from the left navigation pane. Click the Yes button to confirm the erase of the USB flash drive data. Click the browse button on the right. Select the .dmg file with the macOS installation files. Click the Open button. Click the OK button. Click the Yes button. Once you complete the steps, you can now insert the USB flash drive on your Mac computer to install, reinstall, or upgrade the operating system to the latest macOS version, which can be Sierra, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, or higher. Create a GPT partition on a USB flash drive. If the USB flash drive is not working with TransMac, it could still be a partition problem. In this case, you may need to redo the entire process again. However, this time, you should use the following steps to use the Diskpart command-line utility on Windows 10 to create the appropriate GPT partition, and then follow the above instructions. To create a GPT partition on a removable drive, use these steps: Open Start . Search for Command Prompt , right-click the top result, and select the Run as an administrator option. Type the diskpart command and press Enter . Enter the list disk command to view all drives connected to your computer and press Enter . Type the select disk command with the number assigned for the USB flash drive (for example select disk 4 ) and press Enter . Enter the clean command and press Enter . Type the convert GPT command and press Enter . Enter the create partition primary command and press Enter to complete the process. Once you formatted the USB flash drive with a GPT partition, you can use the instructions mentioned above to use TransMac to create a bootable media, but this time skip steps No. 5 through 10 and continue on step 11 . After the process completes, which can take up to an hour, connect the USB flash drive and power on your Mac holding down the Option key, select the USB drive to begin installing macOS. If you have problems creating the bootable media, you can get a USB flash drive with macOS Sierra, El Capitan, Catalina, Big Sur, etc., on it with the link mentioned below. 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