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Create Windows 10 installation USB on Mac OS
  1. Download ISO from here - https://www.microsoft.com/sk-sk/software-download/windows10ISO
  2. Insert USB storage drive into your pc
  3. Identify which drive is USB mounted on by typing diskutil list command.
  4. Format USB to work with Windows diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "WIN10" GPT /dev/disk2 (replace /dev/disk2 with the code you got in previous command).
  5. Mount downloaded ISO hdiutil mount ~/Downloads/Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso
  6. Copy files to USB (excluding install.wim as it is larger than 4 GB, FAT32 allows max 4 GB files) rsync -vha --exclude=sources/install.wim /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/ /Volumes/WIN10
  7. brew install wimlib
  8. Use wimlib to split install.wim into multiple parts wimlib-imagex split /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim /Volumes/WIN10/sources/install.swm 4000
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