formatting sd card for iso

[stray shadow]

I just bought a new laptop and I want to download a windows iso on an sd card to make it bootable. what format should I make my sd card?

[lost island]

You should write the ISO itself to the SD card, not format it with a filesystem. You can use dd or a GUI like Popsicle.

[stray shadow]

I have a MacBook I am using to put the iso onto the sd card

[lost island]

With macOS?

[stray shadow]

My MacBook is macOS yes

I downloaded on it the windows iso

and I want to move the iso to the sd card

exFAT should be good right?

[lost island]

Take a look at this https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager

[lost island]

No, you don’t create a filesystem to write an ISO to an SD card

The ISO itself contains the filesystem

[stray shadow]

ah ok

[lost island]

If you do want to just copy over the ISO to a drive to make it work you could use Ventoy, but that doesn’t work if the target device to boot is a Mac @stray shadow.

If this isn’t meant for a Mac, then you probably want to use Ventoy

[stray shadow]

no the target device has no OS

[lost island]

But is it a Mac?

[stray shadow]

and isn’t a mac

[lost island]

Then go ahead and use Ventoy

[stray shadow]

ok

[lost island]

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

If Ventoy doesn’t work, go back to my original suggestion

[stray shadow]

there’s the windows the Linux version and the livecd

which one should I download?

I’m used to doing this on windows but not mac

[lost island]

For what

[stray shadow]

for ventoy

[lost island]

Oh, then just use my original suggestion

[lost island]

.

[stray shadow]

II want to write the iso on a mac to use on a non-mac device

should I use ventoy or the usbimager?

[lost island]

Both would work, but you can’t install Ventoy from macOS so use the latter.

usbimager, my original suggestion

[stray shadow]

ah ok

[stray shadow]

now it says this

I even tried opening the app with ctrl as a sudo

@lost island still there?

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[pulsar mural]

you have to be absolutely sure that the computer you're planning to boot from also supports doing so FROM A CARD READER slot on it. (otherwise you'll need a USB card-reader, and boot via USB)

[lost island]

Not sure why this is happening if you ran it with sudo

I don’t have much experience with macOS

[stray shadow]

I fixed things

idk how but it suddenly got fixed

done