Then, on the left side, select your USB drive from the list. In Disk Utility, choose to show all devices: Insert the drive in your Mac and start Disk Utility.

While the ISO is downloading, we can prepare our USB drive. iso file on your Mac: Prepare the USB drive In that section, select the only option that is available from the dropdown: Windows 11 (multi-edition ISO), then select the preferred language, click the “64-bit Download” and wait for the download to complete to get the. We will go for the 3rd option, to download the ISO. On that page you can find a few options to download Windows 11: Windows 11 Installation Assistant, Windows Media Creation tool and the Windows 11 Disk Image (ISO): Let’s start by downloading the ISO from Microsoft. To overcome the issue with the large file, we will need to use a tool, Wimlib, which is able to split this file in two parts. Unfortunately, I noticed that having the USB drive formatted as ExFAT causes a lot of PCs to not be able to boot from it. As the installation ISO contains a file that is larger than 4 GB, ExFAT would sound like a logical choice as FAT32 does not support files over 4 GB in size. Both ExFAT and FAT32 are supported out of the box.

With that, I mainly refer to the filesystem support on macOS. So far the same method, as I will discuss here as well, seems to be still the best. In the meanwhile, I also took some more time to try and experiment to find an easier method.

This article is fairly similar to an earlier one I did on doing the same for Windows 10.

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