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Creating a Windows bootable USB on OS X


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I'm on OS X 10.9 and Bootcamp doesn't work on my hackintosh, says i have to update my bootrom to use the utility. I have another partition on the hard drive and I want to install windows on it, I have the ISO but no appropriate software or steps to make a bootable usb. Any help?  :) 

 

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Steps To Achieve Victory
  1. Download the ISO you want to use
  2. Open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) 2.1 Navigate to the path where the .iso file is located 2.2 Use ls to list all the folders 2.3 cd [folder name] to dive in to folder or cd.. to go back the path
  3. Convert .iso to .img using hdiutil:
    hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /path/to/target.img /path/to/source.iso
  4. Rename if OS X gave it a .dmg ending:
    mv /path/to/target.img.dmg path/to/target.img
  5. Type diskutil list to get a list of currently connected devices
  6. Insert USB drive you want to use
  7. Run diskutil list again to see what your USB stick gets assigned eg - /dev/disk3
  8. Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (where N is the number assigned to your USB stick, in previous example it would be 3)
  9. Run sudo dd if=/path/to/target.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m (if you get an error, replace bs=1m with bs=1M
  10. Run diskutil eject /dev/diskN and remove your USB stick
  11. The USB stick will now be ready to use
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I got an error which says 

dd: Unknown operand 7.img. I renamed the image as windows 7.img and I got this message.

After converting to .img by renaming the extension, the image opened with no errors. Did that cause the error?  :(

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I got an error which says 

dd: Unknown operand 7.img. I renamed the image as windows 7.img and I got this message.

After converting to .img by renaming the extension, the image opened with no errors. Did that cause the error?  :(

Had the same issue.

 

Rename the path to a shorter one ex: /volumes/download/windows/

 

and the image itself ex:  /volumes/download/windows/windows.img

 

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7.Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m(replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located; for example, ./ubuntu.img, /dev/rdiskN is faster than /dev/diskN). If you see the error dd: Invalid number `1m', you are using GNU dd. Use the same command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M.

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