Windows media 10 for mac install#
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The main reason why it is so hard to create a Windows USB stick from a Mac has to do with file size limits on the FAT32 file system(4 GB).

Windows media 10 for mac install#

Why is it so hard to create a USB stick to install Windows 10

I have even seen articles suggesting to use rsync! Come on, if I want to install windows, I definitely do not want to resort to Rsync.

Some convoluted methods that require me to use diskutil either from the command line or from the UI, also no luck.

Windows media 10 for mac software#

Using software utilities like UNetbootin, highly discouraged by Apple with some scary warnings, from doing so, also didn’t work for me.I was able to create the USB stick but it wouldn’t boot on my new PC. Not only you need to have an old version of Macos X for this to work, but even if you do have one, at least in my case, it didn’t work. I tried to create a USB stick to install Windows using Bootcamp.I tried every different method described on the world wide web and all failed. The only drawback is that it requires some additional disk space in your Mac.īut before we get to the actual solution, let me just give you a quick overview of the different methods I tried before getting to this solution.

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You have tried every different method imaginable and nothing seems to work.Īfter a lot of trial and error, I have found a straightforward method that works every time.

Windows media 10 for mac windows 10#

If anyone can provide any insight how I might install WMP or Media Feature Pack (or otherwise get video metadata extraction to work in Directory Opus), I'd very much appreciate it.You are here because you want to create a USB stick to install Windows 10 but you only have a Mac at home. And unfortunately, it seems I'm not able to get any guidance via paid support tickets. I'm 99% sure what I need is either WMP or Media Feature Pack, but after much trial and error (and hours of googling), I find myself at a dead end. I also asked Crossover support about this, but their response was just: 'this is known not to install, additionally the install file is not longer available from source it's referenced from.' *As a possible alternative to Media Feature Pack, I tried installing Windows Media Player 9 in the bottle, but the download link that Crossover tries to use to download it is invalid. With this we don’t have a dev on hand to look into issues'. I tried submitting a ticket to Crossover support, but the response was 'It may need some dev attention on this. msu is 'of an unknown installer type ' if I run 'wusa.exe the.msu,' it didn't seem to do anything if I extract the MSU & try to install the cabs it contains, the installations fail. If I try with 'Run Command,' it shows 'There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file' if I try Install Software into Bottle, it says the. However, I still couldn't figure out any way to get the Media Feature Pack MSU installed. * I tried updating to Crossover v20 beta, which is based on WINE 5, which does support MSU's (according to ). * I asked the Directory Opus dev, but he basically just said 'This is Windows software, we won't answer any questions about WINE.' However, because it's distributed as an MSU (not an MSI or EXE), I can't figure out any way to get it installed into the bottle. My strong suspicion is that this is the Media Feature Pack ( ). Presumably, it's trying to leverage some underlying Windows dependency that's not available in Crossover by default. However, all metadata columns for videos come out blank.

Getting Opus setup & running in Crossover was very easy, & it's able to show metadata columns for images. I'm therefore trying to use Directory Opus in Crossover for this purpose. in Details view, showing info like video bitrate, frame size, framerate, etc) - whereas pretty much every one on Windows does. On Linux, none of the available file explorers seem to provide extensive support for media metadata (i.e.