I'm trying to create a bootable Windows 7 USB from my 10.9.4 Hackintosh so I can install it on a second hard drive, but I've been running into a few problems.
For reference, my motherboard is a Gigabyte H87-D3H with the following specs.
After googling around I learned that there's a built-in OS X utility that does this exact thing; Boot Camp Assistant. Unfortunately for me, when I run this program I get an error.
No problem, I've made bootable USBs for Windows and Linux before using a program called UNetBootIn. I download the OS X version and make my 4 GB USB a Windows 7 install USB (formatted with FAT32), which I've used this exact same device for in the past.
Now here's where I start to run into problems. I swap in my second hard drive, remove my OS X hard drive, plug in the USB key and set it to the highest boot priority in the BIOS. When I reboot my system however, it skips over the USB and boots straight to the OS I had installed on the old hard drive, even when I hit F12 during the boot and manually select my USB drive. I try removing all of the hard drives and only keep the USB drive plugged in, but now it hangs and says it can't find a bootable drive.
I figure that I've either messed up in creating the bootable USB or in setting up the BIOS to boot from a USB drive. I've tried a few different things - I made the bootable USB drive manually using a unix command I found on Stack Exchange, I tried installing Paragon NTFS to allow my mac to read/write NTFS so I could make the install USB NTFS, and I've tried changing almost every setting in the BIOS to see if it will finally read my USB drive. None have worked, so I'm wondering if I'm either missing something obvious in the creation of the bootable USB or some BIOS setting that I changed to be able to boot my OS X USB when I started my Hackintosh project.
It should be noted that I haven't...
- tried the Windows USB on another PC (don't have access to one right now)
- tried another iso
- tried to create a different bootable USB to check if my process is correct, i.e. Ubuntu
Does anyone have any similar experience with these sort of problems when trying to create a dual boot system? How did you get your Windows USB working from OS X? If you encountered the Boot Camp error and that was the only way to get your install USB working, how did you get around it? Is there an important setting in my BIOS that is only making it work with OS X USBs?
Thanks for your time, any help is really appreciated!
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