Monday, April 4, 2016

usb installation - How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu?



I'd like to create a Windows bootable USB stick, but I don't have a Windows machine with me at the moment to do so. How could I achieve the same using Ubuntu?






Some answers are outdated, since WinUSB is not working anymore. But there is a working fork called WoeUSB.



Github: https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB



Installation



It does not uninstall grub-efi anymore!



☞ Ubuntu / Debian




sudo add-apt-repository universe # contains the p7zip-full dependency
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install woeusb


☞ Arch



pacaur -S woeusb-git



☞ Fedora



dnf install -y WoeUSB


☞ OpenSUSE



zypper install WoeUSB



Writing the ISO



After installation, write the windows ISO with the following command:



sudo woeusb --device /path/to/your.iso /dev/sdX


(Replace the X in /dev/sdX with the letter corresponding to your USB. You can find which is the correct one in the program Disks.)



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