How To Write An Embedded FreeNAS 8 Image Under Windows

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Overview
FreeNAS 7 provided an embedded .img file which the end user was able to write a device under Windows using the physdiskwrite software. With the introduction of FreeNAS 8, the developers have moved away from the uncompressed .img embedded image to the compressed .xz image. This new image file type does not have a direct way to write under Windows.

This work instruction was developed under Microsoft Windows XP SP3 and used a USB flash drive for the destination media. This work instruction has not been tested with newer versions of Windows, nor other destination devices.

How to write the embedded FreeNAS 8 image under Windows.