Linux: bootable USB with Windows, without tools

Creating one USB with it's a game…. on Windows. This is because as a Windows user, there are many great USB creation tools. So downloading an ISO copy of Windows and burning it to a USB for installation can be done in minutes.bootable USB

What if you try to create a bootable USB with Windows on a Linux distribution? All the traditional USB imaging tools on the Linux platform (even the good ones like the Etcher) cannot create one bootable Windows USB. This leaves Windows and Linux users out of luck.

Below we will see a very easy way to create bootable USB with Windows without using any extra software.

Yes we will create a bootable USB only with the tools included in all distributions. For those who do not do well with the terminal, we'll explain how they can do the same thing as gparted.

First, add the USB to the port:

Open the terminal and:

sudo umount / dev / sdb (the last letter b can be changed on your system) to umount the disk

Let's format the flash drive to Fat32 with the command:

sudo mkfs.msdos -F 32 / dev / sdb1

The command requires creating a partition msdos in Fat32 format.

To do the same with gparted, run the application, do umount USB and from the menu - Device - Create Partition Table

Select msdos and click Apply.

Then choose format to FAT 32.

Logically we are ready to create USB.

Open ISO of Windows downloaded with the Disk Image Mounter, select all the files, copy and paste to the USB that we took in the above steps. 

The process

In the image above it looks like I have opened the folders as root. I had to because I was in distribution which does not allow copies of system files to ordinary users.

With some other distribution you will not have a problem even if you copy the paste as ordinary users.

Ready, try booting from USB.

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