Bootable USB drive on a Mac running macOS

Hey there,

So, I've got this machine running macOS (it's a Hackintosh)
And now I need to make a bootable Windows 7 USB stick,
I grabbed the ISO, but I can't for the life of me get it onto the USB,
I found some software online, but apparently, they don't actually make the drive bootable,
Tried using Boot Camp Assistant, but since this is just a Hackintosh, that's a dead end...
Disk Utility isn't doing the trick either..

Any ideas? help me out :/

So, you don't have a CD/DVD drive to burn those Windows 7 ISO files?

Larry Ortiz5 said:So you don't have a CD/DVD drive to burn that Windows 7 ISO?

I actually have an official Windows 7 DVD with the key, but I don't have an optical drive... I guess I stopped using those a long time ago..

Rufus is honestly one of the best—and definitely one of the simplest—little tools out there for turning an ISO file into a bootable USB drive. I’m not entirely sure if your current setup will play nice with it, but it might be worth a shot—you don't exactly have anything to lose, right?

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

I guess I'll give it a shot after school.

@ Jack James65

Just grab UNetbootin for mac. For the specifics, check out Installing Other Distributions Using UNetbootin.

Larry Ortiz5 said:Rufus is pretty much one of the best, most straightforward little tools out there for turning an ISO file into a bootable USB... though I'm not sure if your system even supports it, but hey, might as well give it a shot, nothing to lose, I guess.

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

There's no Rufus for Mac.

Noah Sanchez39 said:@ Jack James65

Just grab UNetbootin for mac. If you need more info, check out Installing Other Distributions Using UNetbootin.

I guess I'll give it a shot now.🙂

Jack James65 said:I guess I'll give it a shot now. 🙂

Tried it, but the whole thing just dies after three seconds and starts dumping files onto the USB:
idlinux.sys
menu.c32
syslinux.cfg
unbfilel.txt
ubnpathl.txt

Here's what I did:
plugged in the drive
selected it
picked the ISO
selected the ISO
hit OK

What's up?

It’d honestly be easiest if you just used a Windows computer to put together that bootable USB... You could probably swing by a friend's place or a neighbor's—it really only takes about five minutes to get it done.

Larry Ortiz5 said:It’d probably be easiest if you just made that bootable USB on a Windows machine. Hit up a friend or a neighbor, it'll take like five minutes and you're done...

Yeah, true, but I don't really have anyone to ask :P
Every single person I know with a computer just says:
"No way, I'm not letting you touch my rig. You're gonna break something or install like a billion viruses."

So now I'm digging through some old junk to find an ancient PC with a disc drive. If I can actually get it running, maybe that'll help.

So, I found some reader that actually works, but it’s loud as hell... I'll let you know if I can get it installed