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#USB DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR MAC MAC OS#
#USB DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR MAC INSTALL#

The default Windows 10 ISO file, downloaded from Microsoft when running macOS, contains the file install.wim, which is to large to store in a FAT32 formatted volume. Since you are using Sierra, your Mac probably has not had this firmware upgrade. The firmware needed to allow booting from ExFAT formatted media is installed when upgrading to High Sierra.

#USB DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR MAC INSTALL#

Apple expects you to install the latest version of macOS available for your model Mac. In your case, the condition was using Sierra. Failure occurs when any one of the conditions is ignored. The Boot Camp Assistant works under very strict conditions.

#USB DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR MAC MAC OS#

If possible, I'd like to avoid updating to mac OS Catalina.

I did a few more attempts (each time erasing and creating the bootcamp partition trying to create another USB tool), but always with the same result.Īny help in getting this to run is appreciated. In macOS the USB drive shows up without any problem. The USB drive stopped being recognised I again get the above error message No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key.I restarted the Boot Camp procedure, erasing- and re-creating the Bootcamp-partition.

After cancelling the installation, the Windows partition stopped showing up as a startup disk!.

Since I was not able to quickly obtain a product key and thought I needed one for the installation, I canceled the installation at this point.

Using this drive I was once able to boot into the Windows 10 Installation.

So, since I have another device running Windows 10 available, I ended up installing Microsoft's MediaCreationTool and creating a FAT32-based bootable USB drive.

The most promising attempt was the following: I did some research and it seems that ExFAT is not bootable? This resulted in the above error message.

Tried to manually create the boot medium, using the above ISO-image, formatting the drive using ExFAT.

This failed, because on the ISO-Image I have there is a file install.wim, which is too large for a FAT32-formatted drive.

Tried to create a boot medium using Boot Camp assistant.

The error message I get is No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key. I'm trying to install Windows 10 in BootCamp on my 2012 Macbook Pro, running mac OS Sierra, but fail to boot from the USB drive on which the Windows install tools reside.