Install Windows 10 IoT Core operating system On Your Raspberry Pi 2 from Windows, Mac OS X and Linux

Windows 10 IoT Core is useful only to give you easy access to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO over your network and it doesn't to run normal Windows applications. Before to start this tutorial go and buy a good SD 16Gb class 10 or better.

Download the IOT Core RPi.ISO from the Microsoft Download Center, the file is about 508 MB.


If you are using Windows 10 or Windows 7, 8 follow these steps

Windows 10 or Windows 8 

Open the ISO file you have downloaded, double click on the file to open it.
Run "Windows_10_IoT_Core_RPi2.msi" to install the necessary files and tools on your system,
and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft IoT\ to view the installed files.

Insert the Plug in a MicroSD card into your pc and click "IoTCoreImageHelper.exe" and click on the Refresh button.  Select the MicroSD card with a mouse click.  Click on the Browse button and choose the file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft IoT\FFU\RaspberryPi2\flash.ffu" Click on the Flash button to start flashing the image to the MicroSD card.

Windows 7

• Open the ISO file using the free program like 7-Zip [dowload here]
• Inside the ISO there is the file Windows_10_IoT_Core_RPi2.msi, you must not install it but open it using 7-Zip again and exstract the file named "File_WindowsIoTRpi2Flash.ffu"
• Download and install Python 2.7 [download here]
• Download ffu2img, a python script that converts Microsoft's FFU format to the standardized IMG format [download here]
• Decompress the master.zip file in the same directory of the "File_WindowsIoTRpi2Flash.ffu" file.
• Open a command prompt and go to the directory where you decompressed the master.zip file 
• Type the command: python ffu2img.py File_WindowsIoTRpi2Flash.ffu Windows10_IoT_Core_for_RP2.img
• Flash the IMG file to the MicroSD card with Win32DiskImager, follow instrunction here.

If you are using Linux or Mac OS X follow these instructions

Install 7zip to decompress the files

Linux

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

Mac OS X

sudo port install p7zip

Decompress files with 7zip commands:

• 7z x IOT-Core-RPi.ISO 

• 7z x Windows_10_IoT_Core_RPi2.msi

Download ffu2img, a python script that converts Microsoft's FFU format to the IMG format:

• curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/t0x0/random/master/ffu2img.py > ffu2img.py

Convert the ffu file:

• python ffu2img.py File_WindowsIoTRpi2Flash.ffu Windows10_IoT_Core_for_RP2.img

Flash the IMG file to the MicroSD card by following instrunctions here.

Now you are ready to run Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi 2



Note : If you are connecting RasberryPI 2 to VGA monitor, you may need to change a config file. You can get more details here.