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Creating a Windows bootable USB on a Mac

Creating a Windows bootable USB on a Mac
Download Windows – ISO
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2022

“install.wim” file in “sources” folder needs to be split it because its size is very big.

 

HOMEBREW (The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)):    https://brew.sh/

 

Command to install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)”

 

WIMLIB (Library to create, extract, and modify Windows Imaging files)

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wimlib#default

 

Command to install Wimlib:   brew install wimlib

 

Command to split the file: Wimlib-imagex split [path to original wim file] [usbdrive sources folder path]/install.swm 4000

 

e.g.: wimlib-imagex split /Volumes/SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim /Volumes/WIN-SRV2022/sources/install.swm 4000

WinDiskWriter (Not Tested yet)
https://github.com/TechUnRestricted/WinDiskWriter
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