How can I burn an ISO to USB without using the command line?

Restore volumes on 10.11 does not seem to work, always giving "Restore process has failed."

I am trying to copy a Windows disc to a USB stick. The instructions do mention to erase the volume to restore first, which leads to a choice of format and scheme, with 18 possible permutations. I tried all those that seemed likely, with no success.

If anyone from Apple is listening, I agree with Bebias that right clicking a disc image in the finder should give the option of not only burning a disc, but also of writing to a USB stick. The two actions are similar from a user perspective.

dfxgordon wrote:

If anyone from Apple is listening, I agree with Bebias that right clicking a disc image in the finder should give the option of not only burning a disc, but also of writing to a USB stick. The two actions are similar from a user perspective.

Don't count on anyone from Apple listening here, tell them directly if you want any chance of it being added as a feature…

http://feedback.apple.com/

Have you tried Etcher?

https://www.etcher.io

I don't know what the Windows disk is so it may not work, let us know what happens.

I was able to use the command line approach per your old post to write the image. It is a Windows install disk. Unfortunately the PC doesn't seem to want to boot off of the USB stick I created this way. I suppose Microsoft copy protection measures may be in play? The motivation is simply to restore a PC whose hard drive failed. Why not use the disk directly? Well, the PC has an optical drive that can't recognize the DVD, while ironically, the Mac sees it fine. So I thought maybe I could use the Mac to make something the PC could read.

I've had this same problem here's my fix without having to use TERMINAL. I'm a PC guy and bought a MAC for school and downloaded some WINDOWS .exe. files on my MAC and couldn't copy to my USB drive because Apple removed the file system for copy. HERE'S WHAT YOU DO!!!

Upload the .iso to Dropbox then download it to the USB drive destination. Takes awhile and I'm in mid download now but it seems like it's going to work. Terminal wouldn't recognize the disc etc. Sooooo much work to just copy a file to a USB drive.

Etcher is beautiful! Thanks for pointing this one out.

In my case, I'm on a Mac and am trying to create a bootable Windows USB to repair a friend's laptop (all jokes welcome!). When I tried doing this in Etcher, it actually directed me to use Rufus, which worked great for me, but it's a Windows app, so you need to have Bootcamp/Parallels, or an actual Windows machine at hand.

Thanks for the link. I spent a lot of time finding a solution and Etcher pointed me in the right direction!

Since we're being pedantic AND nerdy AND need to get this done AND already have a Windows Install image on .ISO, just download VirtualBox, set up a Windows VM with it and the .iso, then use that to download and use Microsoft's own ISO to USB tool and be done with it. Or Rufus. Or ISOtoUSB. Whatever...

Give up & try the Burn app?

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

Toast Titanium will do it to if you want to purchase an app. There may be others in the App Store.

have you tried unetbootin.dmg? seems to work reliably for me.

Etcher is neat, I'm glad to help 🙂

Good luck with the Windows laptop, I think there are free bootable Windows repair OS's out there but can't recommend any personally.

seriously???? are you attempting to clone a fully functional OS from an intermediary OS???...strictly with usb....?