A pop-up will appear asking you if you want to format it to continue, select the partition scheme you want to use and click "Yes" to format it. If the drive is not correctly recognized by WinToUSB, please click the button for the program to recognize the drive. Select the destination drive in the drop-down list. Pleae select the edition of Windows you want to install, then click "Next". WinToUSB scans for and lists available operating systems. Click the button, then click the button and select the Windows installation ISO file from the open dialog box. Copy the Boot Camp Support Software downloaded in the previous step to the computer with an installed copy of WinToUSB, and connect the destination external hard drive or USB flash drive to this computer, then run WinToUSB.
Download Mac Boot Camp Support Software for Windows To Go, please refer to: How to download Boot Camp Windows Support Software for Windows To Go? Tutorial to create and run Windows To Go on a Mac computer with WinToUSB. Mac computers use 64-bit Intel CPUs, so make sure you use 64-bit Windows to create Windows To Go. For booting Windows on an (U)EFI-based computer, the Windows version must match the PC architecture, that means a 64-bit (U)EFI-based computer can only boot 64-bit versions of Windows and a 32-bit (U)EFI-based computer can only boot 32-bit versions of Windows. So in order to boot a Mac computer, we have to make sure that the Windows To Go USB drive that we created supports EFI booting.Ģ. Now All of Apple's computers use Intel CPUs, and Apple selected the Intel-designed Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) as its BIOS firmware to replace the Open firmware used on the PowerPC architecture. So we need to understand what causes the WinToUSB USB drive to fail to boot and then we can effectively avoid it.ġ. Yes, the Windows To Go USB drive created by WinToUSB can be started from a Mac computer, but not all Windows To Go USB drive created by WinToUSB can be started from a Mac computer. How do I make it? Could let me know step by step for using your tools.
I noticed that WinToUSB can install Windows to a USB drive, can the Windows USB drive created by WinToUSB be started from a Mac computer? Now I'm trying to get rid of my Bootcamp installation, because of low space on main SSD drive.
I hav a late 2016 MacBook Pro with MacOS and Windows 10 Pro dual systems installed on it, so far so good, but I only use Windows 10 Pro to play some games that can't be run on MacOS.
I hope I can show you some examples of how to configure the EFI using Open core.This tutorial will show you how to create a Windows To Go USB drive that supports Mac computers, then you can run Windows to go on a Mac computer to complete the work that must be done under Windows. Wait until the process is completed.Īfter this process completes, you are ready to configure the EFI folder. Press Enter and then it will start copying files to our USB drive. Next, we need to provide the path for the macOS recovery file we downloaded on step 1.Ĭlick Copy path as shown above and then paste in the command line Now confirm it by typing Y and press enter This will also install OpenCore on the USB drive. Don’t forget to change the number based on your USB drive number shown on the makeinstall window. In this case, my Sony USB drive is shown with a number 3. In the following window, make sure you see your USB drive. Now, right-click the file “MakeInstall.bat” and choose Run as Administrator. And then open the gibMacOS folder once again. Plug your USB drive to one of your USB ports. OK so the second step of this project is completed.
This will download the macOS Catalina 10.15.4 to the gibMacOS folder.Īfter the download process is completed, you will see new folder called macOS Download under the gibMacOS folder To proceed, simply type 5 and then press Enter.
Now we are going to choose the macOS Catalina Full Install from the list. Type R and then press Enter to enable the Recovery option only.