Now that Windows 10 is, many of you might be planning to install Microsoft's new desktop operating system on your computer. There are plenty of, and to choose from. You can automatically or you can make a bootable disk to install Windows 10 on one or more computers in a hurry. ( Also see: ) You can choose to make a bootable USB disk or DVD, though the USB offers some advantages like faster read/ write speeds. You are also likely to have a USB drive lying around, or your computer may not have a DVD drive, in which case the decision is already made for you. ( Also see: ) Make sure that the USB or DVD (if rewritable) you pick to be your Windows 10 bootable media has no important data on it, because this process will format the drive, which means you will lose everything on it. Also make sure that the drive is of minimum 4GB capacity, as the process requires 3GB of space. With that in mind, here's is the list of steps you need to follow to make a bootable Windows 10 drive: 1) Download Windows 10 media creation tool. To create a bootable USB drive manually, we will use the Command Prompt as a Windows default program. Here are step by step to create a bootable USB drive as the Windows installation media. To create a bootable USB drive as a Windows installation media, we require at least 4 GB for minimum capacity. Here are links to download the Windows 10 media creation tool for and Windows respectively. To find out which type of Windows you are running, go to Start, type Control panel, select System and security, and then, under System, look at the value for System type, or check this. The equivalent of the Windows Task Manager is The Activity Monitor app. The equivalent of Close Session or Shut Down are found in the Apple Menu. The equivalent of Change Password is the Users pane of the Configuration app. Short cut for task manager mac. ( Also see: ) 2) Once Media creation tool is installed, launch the application. When asked What do you want to do? Select Create installation media for another PC, and click Next. 3) On the next screen, select your preferred Language and Architecture as determined in Step 1. Also choose Edition as explained below and click Next. If you are currently running Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 with Bing, or Windows 10 Home, choose as Edition. If you are currently running Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 8 Professional, Windows 8.1 Professional with Media Centre, or Windows 10 Pro, choose as Edition. If you are currently running Windows 8 Single Language, Windows 8.1 Single Language, or Windows 8 Single Language with Bing, choose Windows 10 Home Single Language as Edition. If you are currently running Windows 8 Chinese Language Edition, Windows 8.1 Chinese Language Edition, or Windows 8 Chinese Language Edition with Bing, choose Windows 10 Home China as Edition. 4) If you are creating a bootable Windows 10 USB disk, select USB flash drive and click Next to follow the rest of the steps. A reminder once again you will lose whatever data is there in the drive you select. If you want to create a bootable Windows 10 USB DVD, select ISO file. Make sure you have ISO file of the Windows 10 version you selected in step 3 handy. ISO files are basically images of the setup files, and the Windows 10 ISO files are Once Windows 10 media creation tool has finished doing its job, you should have a Windows 10 bootable USB disk/ DVD drive, depending upon the option you chose. If you have problems with any of the above steps, you try using the Windows USB/ DVD Tool, which was designed for, but handles Windows 10 just fine. 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Why makes external storage solution better than Xbox One’s internal drive is that they are plugin-and-play, significantly faster and much better drive. I bought this for my Xbox one to add more storage to it. I have approximately 150 games installed with about 830 GB left on it. And all the games I have on it are Xbox 1 games. The size of the games do vary. I have roughly 20 to 30 at least that are 40 GB+. I have a separate external hard drive my Xbox 360 backwards compatible games. Here are some instructions from that will put the ISO onto the flash drive with a Mac. They won't make it bootable though. • Open a Terminal (under Utilities) • Run diskutil list and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g., /dev/disk2) • Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk N (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2) • Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/disk N bs=1m (replace /path/to/downloaded.iso with the path where the image file is located; for example,./windows7.iso) • Run diskutil eject /dev/disk N, and remove your flash media when the command completes (this can take a few hours on slower drives) Now. After you read all that, on the Gizmodo page it says that if you want to make it bootable you should use a utility called Live USB helper they link to (which isn't there any more) and use a Mac mounting tool (which isn't there either!) to force the ISO to mount on the Mac so you can copy the files over. That article may prove useful, but probably not.
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