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Feb 16, 2015 4:36 AM in response to Tokidoby Loner T,On a Late2013 rMBP, you can use the ISO (from the DVD) to create a USB which contains both Windows installer and BC drivers.
Please see How to install Windows using Boot Camp - Apple Support and Boot Camp: Creating an ISO image from a Windows installation DVD - Apple Support.
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Feb 16, 2015 7:01 AM in response to Loner Tby Tokido,I'm afraid that doesn't quite answer my question. I'm still not sure the bootable drive created by Bootcamp would work on a PC because doesn't Mac use FAT32, whereas you need NTFS in a Windows environment?
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Feb 16, 2015 7:18 AM in response to Tokidoby Loner T,★HelpfulOn a Mac create an ISO from the DVD and put it in a folder. Run BCA (Bootcamp Assistant) and use it to create a USB2 which will contain both the ISO and BC drivers. Uncheck the last "Install/Remove..." option, if you do not intend to install Windows on Mac.
Macs have no read-write NTFS drivers (Apple provides a read-only drivers), so the partition on Macs created by BCA is FAT, which is converted by the Windows installer to NTFS.
Please also see https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/mac/5.0/help/#/bcmp173b3bf2 and http://imgur.com/a/DuGxr#0.
The USB2 has an AutoUnattend.xml which will silently install BC drivers, but these drivers are intended for Macs to support Mac-specific hardware.
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Feb 16, 2015 7:25 AM in response to Loner Tby Tokido,I see. So the NTFS/FAT issue doesn't really matter.
I still have one final issue though: I can deselect the 'install/remove...' option, but the 'Download the latest Windows support software from Apple option' is greyed out, so I can't deselect it.
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Feb 16, 2015 8:10 AM in response to Tokidoby Loner T,There is no way to deselect it on a Mac. Are you planning to use the USB2 flash drive to install Windows on a Mac or on a Windows PC?
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Feb 16, 2015 8:54 AM in response to Tokidoby Loner T,If you need to use it on a PC, use Rufus USB tool (https://rufus.akeo.ie) or https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124.aspx and you can avoid BCA putting BC drivers on the USB. This will give you a clean USB2 without any Mac drivers. You should use the two links and the ISO on the PC directly, instead of creating it on the Mac.
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Feb 16, 2015 9:31 AM in response to Loner Tby Tokido,As I mentioned in my opening post, I don't have access to a PC. I only have my Macbook. This is why I'm trying to use my Macbook to create a USB boot drive that will work on PC.
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Feb 16, 2015 9:42 AM in response to Tokidoby Loner T,Just use one of the two links and put the ISO on the USB2 drive. Do not use Bootcamp Assistant. Rufus should work much better since you will not have the diskpart executable (it is Windows only). Do you have Bootcamp/Windows on your Mac?
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Feb 16, 2015 2:57 PM in response to Loner Tby Tokido,Thanks. I didn't realise Rufus worked on Mac. I ended up just creating a Windows partition and creating a boot drive in that though.
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Feb 16, 2015 3:06 PM in response to Tokidoby Loner T,You can use https://www.winehq.org to run Windows programs on the Mac.
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Jun 19, 2015 2:55 PM in response to Tokidoby vbilous,Hey there, this is so late, but maybe will be helpful for somebody.
You can install your iso to VirtualBox and then write to USB drive from windows.