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Is there an Ubuntu 16.04 counterpart to these instructions ? I need to create a bootable Windows Server 2016 USB drive; since it contains file larger than 2Gb, mkusb and similar tools, which try to format the target as FAT32, fail.

unetbootin refuses to accept NTFS-formatted USB drive, either.

As far as I understand, the problem is in finding Linux counterpart for "bootsect /nt60" command, to copy Bootmgr boot sector to target USB drive.

Is it possible without actually using a Windows computer?

Konstantin Boyandin
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  • I always use dd;-) See https://askubuntu.com/questions/372607/how-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive-from-terminal I would assume it does not matter to dd what the FS is and what the contents of the ISO are. – Rinzwind May 28 '18 at 13:41

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Last time I had problems making USB with 64 bit Windows, the dd command helped:

First unmount the drive:

sudo umount /dev/sd<?>

Then write the iso to /dev/sd? drive, replace question mark with your usb drive letter from lsblk command.

sudo dd bs=4M if=input.iso of=/dev/sd<?> conv=fdatasync
kukulo
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    Problem here is that dd will format the drive with the udf filesystem which doesn't seem to work on many laptops, and won't be recognized as a bootable device. – Douglas Gaskell Nov 28 '18 at 06:09