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Best of all, the tool to create this bootable Windows 10 USB drive comes from Microsoft itself. The official Windows 10 Media Creation Tool from Microsoft makes the process of creating bootable version of the operating system on a USB flash drive super easy to allow for a fresh installation of the company’s latest desktop OS on a PC.
Code: sudo dd if=/Volumes/Hackintosh HD/El Capitan Home/COLOR=#0000FFyourusername/COLOR/Desktop/Win10Englishx64.iso of=/dev/diskB5/B bs=1mNext press enter, its going to ask for your password, enter your password and hit enter. This will start the process You need to be patient when I first did this on a USB 2.0 it took 39 minutes. This time because i was curious I used a USB 3.0 and it took 21 minutes When its finished you will see the bytes transferred, the time it took in seconds, and the bytes/sec. Finally, you have one more step. In terminal you want to type. Click to expand.Which is what I did and it produced the file system I pasted up there.
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I'm not sure, but I think that all computers are not capable of booting an USB stick that has a file system of an optical media. If someone knows the details of this, I'd be happy to learn more. Also I don't believe that formatting matters at all. Doesn't dd work in such a way that it directly writes the input (the dvd image) to the device, and the file system of the image will be copied over what ever the usb stick has? Anyway, I now have a bootable usb media.
I negotiated for some computing time on teh wife's pc laptop, and for some reason the microsoft Media Creation Tool (the first option in your link) failed with 'Something Happened 0x80070002 – 0x20016' error code (internets said you could try logging in as admin etc. But I gave up.). Next I tried with the Rufus tool, which got the job done using the same.iso file I originally tried to copy with dd. This approach worked, and I got a UEFI bootable usb stick, so thanks for your link. Although it's a bit annoying that I wasn't smart enough to do it with a mac, I'll get over it.
Here's how a bootable usb stick looks like.