Wednesday, March 1, 2017

How to burn a Windows .iso to a USB device?





I want to burn a Windows ISO to a USB device in Ubuntu. How do I do this?



I know how to burn a Ubuntu ISO into a USB device, but with a Windows ISO it's not the same.



UNetbootin should work: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/




Or you could try a bit-by-bit copy:




  1. Insert the USB device and then open Disk Utility (in 10.10 and older,
    System -> Administration -> Disk Utility).

  2. Select the USB device from the list in the left of the program and detect where it was mounted: /dev/sd[1 letter][optionally 1 number]. For example, /dev/sdc or /dev/sdc1.

  3. Make sure the USB device is unmounted (not safely removed, but unmounted)
    If it is mounted you can unmount it:




    sudo umount /dev/sd[1 letter][optionally 1 number]

  4. Assuming the .iso file is in your home folder, open the terminal and write:



    sudo dd bs=4M if=[ur .iso] of=/dev/sd[that 1 letter]


    Example:



    sudo dd bs=4M if=windows7.iso of=/dev/sdc




And wait for it to finish.
(The "bs=4M" - bit is optional, just makes it faster.)


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