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Make a Bootable Windows 11 USB on macOS

Dallin Hitchcock

This should also work for Windows 10.

Install wimlib

This is required to split the .wim file on the ISO into a useable size

brew install wimlib

Get the USB drive's identifier

diskutil list external

This post assumes the identifier is disk4

Format the USB drive

diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "WINDOWS11" GPT disk4

Mount the Windows 11 ISO

hdiutil mount ~/Downloads/Win11_English_x64v1.iso

Copy everything but the .wim file

rsync -avh --progress --exclude=sources/install.wim /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/ /Volumes/WINDOWS11

Split the .wim file and copy to USB

wimlib-imagex split /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim /Volumes/WINDOWS10/sources/install.swm 3800

Voilà! You now have a bootable Windows 11 USB drive.