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Bootable USB driver for bootcamp?

merccyyy

merccyyy

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Jan 17, 2009
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Hey guys I was wondering if anyone knew how to make a bootable usb drive to install windows 7 through bootcamp on my mac. I don't have any dvd's laying around so I wanted to see how I can make an image file for Windows 7 and boot it as a disc from my usb thumb drive?
 
merccyyy said:
Hey guys I was wondering if anyone knew how to make a bootable usb drive to install windows 7 through bootcamp on my mac. I don't have any dvd's laying around so I wanted to see how I can make an image file for Windows 7 and boot it as a disc from my usb thumb drive?
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USB boot of "legacy" OSes is extremely unreliable on Macs, however there are a few workarounds described in this thread. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/601414/

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