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Support burning Windows images
Looks like burning Windows images requires a few custom steps for the drive to be bootable:
http://onetransistor.blogspot.com/2014/09/make-bootable-windows-usb-from-ubuntu.html
It'd be nice to experiment detecting a Windows image and perform this steps automatically.
May be for the first step give user a checkbox if he needs those steps? There quite different windows configurations might be.
Yeah, sounds like a good way to go. I'll hopefully be looking at this really soon.
You might want to check out what the official Windows USB/DVD Download Tool provided by Microsoft does to the USB drive as well. I've been using this tool for Windows 7 without issues whenever I'm being forced to install that OS again.
@Forage i tryed to burn Windows 10 image to flash on MacOS, but it didn't work. Windows USB/DVD Download Tool is exist for MacOS. I'm not first time meet this task. If you resolve this task you get many users on MacOS. Now there is no simple method for do it.
See also https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/blob/master/docs/USER-DOCUMENTATION.md#why-is-my-drive-not-bootable And https://gitter.im/resin-io/etcher?at=585358a7c5a4e0233b8ec470 suggests that you can use Bootcamp on MacOS.
@lurch Bootcamp doesn't work for me. Before using this use should fix configs of Bootcamp. And after all, working is not guarantee.
Somemebody on our gitter channel recently suggested http://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-windows-10-installer-usb-drive-mac for Mac users.
That's not entirely accurate, given that in newest MacBook Pro models (like mine), there is no need to create an external bootable drive (you select the image and the Mac reboots straight into it), and therefore you don't even get the change to select an external drive.
See https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25913?locale=en_US
Depending on the model of your Mac, you might not need an external USB drive to install Windows (you’re asked for one when you prepare your Mac for Windows if it’s required).
The BootCamp assistant will add Apple software to the Windows image though. Also, in the case of creating an installer medium; on macOS Sierra there's no option to flash it to SD cards anymore (only USB thumb drives still work afaik).
Hello I'm one of the contributor of the WoeUSB project mentioned above, and I'd like to ask to add WoeUSB as one of the alternative tool that support burning Windows image, refer #1743 for the PR.
Bootcamp didn't provide an option to create a windows USB stick on my late 2009 13" MacBook running OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan).
However, I was able to boot my PC with UEFI BIOS from the USB stick by simply copying the contents of the Windows 10 ISO to the stick, after erasing it in Disk Utility using MS-DOS FAT and a Master Boot Record as described in this video - https://youtu.be/49NxbzhgsTE
High Sierra has removed the ability to create a bootable USB Windows image. If we can merge the capability of WoeUSB into etcher, that would solve this headache for a LOT of users.
@martinbogo that's odd, I am on High Sierra, and can still do that through the Bootcamp Assistant. Is that missing for you?
Jonas, have you tried since the last update? I just tried via Bootcamp Assistant, and there's no option to burn it to USB. Screenshot attached:
[image: Screen Shot 2017-12-13 at 12.05.01 PM.png]
@martinbogo the screenshot didn't make it (GitHub doesn't add them when sent via email); Yeah, updated last night, and it still has that option for me as far as I can see. Did you upgrade from Sierra, or are you on a clean install of High Sierra?
Well just FYI, all WoeUSB magic lies in https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB/blob/master/src/woeusb , the problem is it depends on Linux-only utilities and must be replaced by portable ones.
Deepin boot maker has been able to flash windows ISO for quite some time.
You can look into that.
WoeUSB seems to work for linux. It would be much easier and convenient if Etcher had this feature as well.
Still waiting in 10 April 2018
If you're trying to create windows bootable USB, try
http://fgimian.github.io/blog/2016/03/12/installing-windows-10-on-a-mac-without-bootcamp/
Work for me.
I found a similar tutorial from Google : https://www.iseepassword.com/how-to-make-bootable-usb-drive.html I have made a bootable USB/DVD /CD with it .
+1 on this feature
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We are getting to the point where we use etcher for most of the work we're doing at our lab. Now that we are working with Linux-on-Microsoft and on ARM devices that support Windows 10, being able to use Etcher to burn windows images would be a perfect solution allowing us to work with all of our platforms. Right now we are using WinTel PC's, Windows on Pi, Linux on Pi, Linux on PC ( Debian, Ubuntu, et.al. ).
So, add our group to the mix calling for a windows image to USB / Flash / SD card feature!
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+1 on this feature
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UNetbootin could also create bootable USB on MacOS: https://unetbootin.github.io/ https://www.top-password.com/guide/create-pcunlocker-bootable-usb-from-mac.html
And there we are in 2019. :tada:
Any updates about Windows image burning? Sure there are other tools that do this but this is the one essential feature missing on Etcher to be the one-fits-all tool....
Agreed! There's absolutely NO legal reason to ignore this. Being able to burn windows ISO's into install media is critical.
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And there we are in 2019. 🎉 Any updates about Windows image burning? Sure there are other tools that do this but this is the one essential feature missing on Etcher to be the one-fits-all tool....
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...other people claim that #266 is "the one essential feature missing on Etcher" :wink: