If your BIOS Mode is ‘UEFI’, issue the following command: diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "WIN11" GPT /dev/disk2 Note: Please be sure to replace disk2 in the path in case your USB drive has a different path from the one present here. To do so, type the following command according to your target machine BIOS Mode and press Enter to execute it. It will be either ‘Legacy’ or ‘UEFI’.Ĭoming back to Terminal on Mac, once you have the BIOS Mode information of your target machine, you will need to prepare your USB drive by formatting it. To do so, on your Windows computer, press Windows + R, then type msinfo32 in the text box and then click ‘OK’.Īfter that, locate and check the BIOS Mode field from the opened window. You would need to know the BIOS Mode of your target machine. Also, identify the disk partition scheme (which will be present under the FDisk_partition_scheme label in the terminal) as this information would be needed in further steps.ĭo this step on your Windows Computer. diskutil listįrom the results, take note of the path of your USB flash drive (which in this case is /dev/disk2, but you could have a different name according to the disks connected to your system). In the Terminal window, issue the following command to get a list of all connected storage drives (internal and external). Pre-requisitesįirst launch the Terminal from the launchpad of your Mac, it might be located in ‘Other’ folder in the Launchpad. In this guide, we are going to create a bootable Windows 11 USB drive using Terminal from Mac.
That being said, your Mac can handle this task fairly easily and create a bootable USB for you in no time.Īlso read → How to Create a Windows 11 USB Drive from Windows 10 However, this gets a bit tricky when your daily driver is a macOS device and you don’t have an access to a Windows machine. Windows has always been one of the operating systems which can be installed through a bootable USB Drive, and it is fairly simple to create on from a Windows machine with Windows USB/DVD Tool or any other third-party software.
Can’t copy ‘install.wim’ on a FAT32 USB due to its large size? Create a bootable Windows 11 USB drive from your Mac without worrying about file size ever!
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