Every time I try to make a bootable USB to windows I tried using startup disk creator and power iso and both haven't worked. I have a 16gb usb Ive formated it over at lease 20 times now trying and it doesn't work. I have flashed drive before and this time on linux is the most frustrating one.
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6Does this answer your question? How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu? – lukky Aug 16 '21 at 02:35
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2Officially, the only way to do this is with Windows' media creation tool and it only works on Windows. It's closed source proprietary software – Nmath Aug 16 '21 at 02:51
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1Old information is useless. It used to be that you could just extract the Windows ISO to a FAT32 formatted flash drive with esp,boot flags & have it boot in UEFI mode. But Microsoft has made the .wim file over 4GB, so it does not fit on a FAT32 formatted partition. The Windows tools split the .wim file to make it work. Most Linux tools do not even know about splitting a .wim file. – oldfred Aug 16 '21 at 03:34
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1You can do it with mkusb. – sudodus Aug 16 '21 at 07:48
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Windows Bootable USB using Ubuntu
There are many ways to make a Windows installer using Ubuntu.
mkusb-plug is my favorite, see: https://askubuntu.com/a/1274975/43926. I have also had good luck using mkusb-guidus to make Windows installers.
Ventoy for Linux can be used to boot Windows installer, see: https://www.ventoy.net/en/isolist.html. https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_linux_webui.html. Unfortunately Ventoy only created UEFI bootable Windows USB drives for me.
Ubuntu Windows can also be installed from Ubuntu without the need for a USB drive, see: https://askubuntu.com/a/1337783/43926
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