If you don’t find a download for your language, give the German version a try. You will get to see the cryptic “SHA1” key on the right which you can use to easily search the web for alternative download sources.įor the German version, for instance, the SHA1 key is “537f817703323d28f673b4e36e377919e1ee034e” from which I found this download from “ComputerBase”. If you get stuck here please try to use the website’s search function on the top, search for “Windows 10, Version 1803 (Updated Apr 2018) (圆4)”. Warning It looks like this step is no longer working adequately, because the described ISO images are not available for download anymore. Finally click “Download” and continue with the next step in the meantime. Go to and select “Windows (Final)” as type, “Windows 10, Version 1803 - Redstone 4 (build 17134.1)” as version (do not select a more recent version), “Windows 10” as edition, a language of your choice and finally the file that ends on “_圆4.iso” if you don’t know any better. If you want to find out why this is necessary please refer to the section on the bottom of this article. In this step you have to download a rather old version of Windows 10. All the data on the USB drive will be lost in the process, so make sure to save the data elsewhere before you continue. You need a USB stick with a capacity of 8 GB or more. The instructions are absolutely foolproof, no terminal is required and the resulting USB drive can be used to install Windows on any machine and is not limited to “Boot Camp”. Mount the ESXi Installation ISO and copy all the contents from the ISO to the USB flash drive.This tutorial explains how to create a bootable Windows USB in macOS without any additional tools.

Flag the first partition on the volume as active and bootable.

Start the command line partitoner fdisk in interactive mode (You will need administrative privileges for this). Don’t forget to use the disk# number obtained in step 2. Unmount the USB Drive, Note: This is not the same as Eject. diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS 'ESXI' MBR disk#

Now we need to format the drive with filesystem FAT32 and partition map MBR using the following command. You should now see another disk show up, in my case disk3. Insert the USB Flash then run the diskutil list command again. Open Terminal and list the mounted disks using the diskutil list command.

Download the ESXi Installation ISO (I used ESXi 7.0b).

Create mac os usb drive