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I want to install Windows 10 Technical Preview. I have downloaded its .iso file. Now I want to make a flash drive bootable. How can I do that?

I already have tried these 2 options.

  1. Making a bootable pendrive via dd command, but it's not working.

    sudo umount /dev/sdb
sudo dd if=/path/to/windows10.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M && sync

  2. I also have tried using WinUSB, but it's not working either.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colingille/freshlight
sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/colingille-freshlight-trusty.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install winusb

It was just running a process showing a message that it's formatting the USB stick, but that didn't last for 20 minutes!! And I had to cancel it.

Is there any way I can make a bootable pendrive for installing Windows 10 from Ubuntu 14.04?

Apurva
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use unetbootin! easy, fast, with GUI, give it a try! ;)

or right click on win10 image, open with disk image mounter, and copy all to your bootable pen. make sure it's empty on either way, you can use "disks"* from ubuntu, have a look on youtube, lots of ways to do that (just look for any windows image, it's all the same) ;)

*disks: select your pendrive, unmount, click on the wheels, format, fat32 (it'll say lba initializable), then copy or use unetbootin!

Rui Costa
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  • Doesn't work at all! – Apurva Apr 03 '15 at 06:55
  • are you sure that the .iso you downloaded is fine? may be corrupted ... have you tried something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09i6ERj5cik – Rui Costa Apr 03 '15 at 09:52
  • No my iso file is not currupted I'm sure. And the tutorial's link you posted is for making bootable stick for Windows 7 not 10. – Apurva Apr 03 '15 at 10:11
  • i know, it's all the same, i have booted windows xp, 7, 8, 8.1, ubuntu, xubuntu, etc, from .iso to usb using unetbootin, and that tutotial is clear ... if it doesn't work for you, i don't know how to help, unless win10 is different than other versions of windows... – Rui Costa Apr 03 '15 at 10:44