Creating a bootable USB with Windows is a game…. in Windows. This is because as a Windows user, there are many great USB creation tools. So downloading a copy of Windows to ISO and burning it to a USB for installation can be done in minutes.
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 a working bootable Windows USB. That leaves them users who use Windows and Linux by chance.
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 may change on your system) for its umount disk
Let's do it format to the flash drive in 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 Disk Image Mounter, select all files, copy and pasting to the USB we dealt with in the steps above.
The process
In the above picture it seems that I have opened the folders as root. I had to do it because I was in the MX Linux distribution that does not allow copying 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.