How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu
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@gjacobse said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
What do you want to do with this bootable Win10 usb?
Will an existing Win10 ISO work? Like the MS Win10 install ISO, or something Hirens?
Install Win10 as @DustinB3403 said
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@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
I'll quote myself here
But the steps would be:- Partition USB with a primary bootable FAT32 partition
- Copy files from Win10 ISO onto the USB
No special software needed. Can be done on any OS.
I can make FAT32 primary partition with Gparted, but I cannot make it bootable with Gparted. It says:
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for fat32 file system support: dosfstools, mtools. -
@scottalanmiller said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@Mario-Jakovina said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
What is the normal way to make bootable USB from Win10 image on Ubuntu?
dd, I think. I've done this but it has been a while. I thought that the Disk Writer normally worked.
dd is what I use most often. Use fdisk to delete the partitions on your USB. Then you'd have something like
dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/usb/dev bs=4M
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@EddieJennings said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@Mario-Jakovina said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
What is the normal way to make bootable USB from Win10 image on Ubuntu?
dd, I think. I've done this but it has been a while. I thought that the Disk Writer normally worked.
dd is what I use most often. Use fdisk to delete the partitions on your USB. Then you'd have something like
dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/usb/dev bs=4M
But the Win10 ISO file isn't bootable. It isn't a hybrid image like many linux distros have. So it won't work.
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@Mario-Jakovina said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
I'll quote myself here
But the steps would be:- Partition USB with a primary bootable FAT32 partition
- Copy files from Win10 ISO onto the USB
No special software needed. Can be done on any OS.
I can make FAT32 primary partition with Gparted, but I cannot make it bootable with Gparted. It says:
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for fat32 file system support: dosfstools, mtools.That's strange. Bootable or not is just a flag in the partition table. You shouldn't need any additional packages for that.
Maybe ubuntu tried to mount it as soon as you made the partition.
Found this on a quick search:
"You should be able to right-click on the partition you want to set as bootable and click "Manage Flags", and then check the box for the boot flag." -
@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@EddieJennings said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@Mario-Jakovina said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
What is the normal way to make bootable USB from Win10 image on Ubuntu?
dd, I think. I've done this but it has been a while. I thought that the Disk Writer normally worked.
dd is what I use most often. Use fdisk to delete the partitions on your USB. Then you'd have something like
dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/usb/dev bs=4M
But the Win10 ISO file isn't bootable. It isn't a hybrid image like many linux distros have. So it won't work.
I see. Truth be told, I replied without actually testing :(. I should know better than to assume what works for my various Linux ISOs would work for windows :).
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@EddieJennings said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@EddieJennings said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@Mario-Jakovina said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
What is the normal way to make bootable USB from Win10 image on Ubuntu?
dd, I think. I've done this but it has been a while. I thought that the Disk Writer normally worked.
dd is what I use most often. Use fdisk to delete the partitions on your USB. Then you'd have something like
dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/usb/dev bs=4M
But the Win10 ISO file isn't bootable. It isn't a hybrid image like many linux distros have. So it won't work.
I see. Truth be told, I replied without actually testing :(. I should know better than to assume what works for my various Linux ISOs would work for windows :).
So true
Well, Microsoft's idea is that you should use their Media Creation Tool to download and write to a USB or save as an ISO file. But to do that you need Windows. Catch 22.
Problem with a lot of linux desktops are that they are too user friendly and will auto-mount and do stuff on their own.
user_friendly != sysadmin_friendly
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@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
Maybe ubuntu tried to mount it as soon as you made the partition.
Found this on a quick search:
"You should be able to right-click on the partition you want to set as bootable and click "Manage Flags", and then check the box for the boot flag."I unmounted partition.
But I cannot "Manage flags" becuase it is Fat32 (and Linnux is missing some packages for it).When I write Win10 ISO image with "Disks" app, I also can't "Manage flags", as it is udf formatted partition
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@Mario-Jakovina said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
Maybe ubuntu tried to mount it as soon as you made the partition.
Found this on a quick search:
"You should be able to right-click on the partition you want to set as bootable and click "Manage Flags", and then check the box for the boot flag."I unmounted partition.
But I cannot "Manage flags" becuase it is Fat32 (and Linnux is missing some packages for it).When I write Win10 ISO image with "Disks" app, I also can't "Manage flags", as it is udf formatted partition
OK, try and install the packages it complains about.
Run in a terminal:
sudo apt install dosfstools mtools
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@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:
Problem with a lot of linux desktops are that they are too user friendly and will auto-mount and do stuff on their own. user_friendly != sysadmin_friendly
Don't use a desktop, just use the command line
Unmounting is just the umount command, very easy to unmount it if you don't want it. Windows automounts, too.
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Don't make this complicated, use the official method. This is even what Microsoft's own site says to use when you don't have Windows already...
sudo dd if=/path/to/Windows.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M && sync
Where /dev/sdb is the partition of your USB stick. Literally, that's all you do.