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      Mario Jakovina @1337
      last edited by Mario Jakovina

      @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.

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        EddieJennings @scottalanmiller
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        @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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          1337 @EddieJennings
          last edited by 1337

          @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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            1337 @Mario Jakovina
            last edited by 1337

            @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."

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            • EddieJenningsE
              EddieJennings @1337
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              @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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                1337 @EddieJennings
                last edited by 1337

                @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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                  Mario Jakovina @1337
                  last edited by

                  @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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                    1337 @Mario Jakovina
                    last edited by

                    @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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @1337
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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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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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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.

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