Hey I am building a custom pc after using mac for a few years and the i don't want to shell out extra money on a disc drive. i was wondering if it is possible to make a windows-8.1-iso-usb instead of having to buy a disc drive and a windows disc, but i will have to format this usb on my mac and then boot up windows on my brand new pc. is this possible? thanks in advance!
[SOLVED] Mac To Windows 8
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Ijack
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No, it won't - any more than it would on Windows. BootCamp will create bootable USB sticks; I've never tried it but I can't see why the resulting stick wouln't work on a PC; it will just have some additional drivers that aren't needed.
Ijack
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No it doesn't, unless you create that boot sector using a Windows PC. You can do that, as you say, by formatting it as a bootable drive. But you need to do that on a Windows PC, and we are talking about a Mac here. The ISO image already has this bootsector, so burning it correctly to the drive does the trick; simply copying the files doesn't.
You might find the following of interest, particularly the section on using diskpart to make the drive bootable: http://www.davescomputertips.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-windows-7-usb-flash-drive/
But you use whatever you think works for you.
You might find the following of interest, particularly the section on using diskpart to make the drive bootable: http://www.davescomputertips.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-windows-7-usb-flash-drive/
But you use whatever you think works for you.
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