Now it's the last step, boot your Mac from the created bootable USB drive. Now you can see there are two separated partitions. You can name it anything as you want, and make sure the format is set to MS-DOS (FAT), then click Apply. Click on the small "+", then select the size of the partition, it should be at least 30 GB. Open Disk Utility, select your local drive (SSD or HDD) on the left and click Partition. On Mac computers, you can apply the Disk Utility. As the Windows OS should be installed on a separated partition, it is an essential step to partition your drive. Here are the detailed steps of these two procedures. If you still want to install Windows on your Mac, you can first create a bootable Windows USB with ISO files, then you need to partition the Mac drive and boot the Mac from the USB. Then follow the onscreen instruction to boot your Mac. Choose the yellow EFI Boot icon to boot from the USB drive.
Insert the portable Windows USB and start your Mac. Then follow the detailed guide below to create a Windows portable USB. Create Windows Portable USBįirst, you need to download and install EaseUS OS2Go on your computer. All you need is to prepare a larger enough USB drive, then leave the rest to EaseUS OS2Go. There are plenty of third-party tools that can help users to create a portable Windows USB, one of such tools is EaseUS OS2Go.
If you prefer not to use Boot Camp, then the easiest method is to create a portable Windows USB so that you can use it on the Mac computer.