As the title clearly says, creating bootable USB in the Ubuntu system is a bit challenging as compared to the Windows system. Windows system provided their own tool and we can seamlessly create a bootable thumb drive. After the less availability of CD ROMs, it is very important to know how to create bootable USB disks.
Yes, I also tried to use some of the tools I was familiar with, such as UnetBootIn, copying with dd tool, etc, but unfortunately, I was unsuccessful. It creates a bootable USB, but the problem, the installation of windows crashes, with some file related error.
Because I did not have any windows system in my machines, and I have to install windows in my newly bought notebook, I have to create anyhow a bootable Windows 10 installer using my Linux machine. I carried out some research on this, got a working tool to create a bootable Windows installer on USB.
1) Installation of WOEUSB command
What I did is, I have first of all run a couple of Linux commands to add the repository, then install the tool.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt udpate
sudo apt intall woeusb
Now installation completes.
2) Get USB Info
We have to find out the usb device id (for example: /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc). Using one of the following commands, we can find out that information:
sudo fdisk -l
lsblk
3) Unmount the USB Disk
This is important, we have to unmount the USB before carrying out the problem. There is a simple command to carry out this task:
sudo umount /dev/sdb1
3) Create the installer
The final step is to run a command to create the actual installer.
sudo woeusb --target-filesystem NTFS --device Win10_2004_English_x64.iso /dev/sdb
Here, Win10_2004_English_x64.iso is the iso file downloaded from the Microsoft site. Which can be freely downloaded.
/dev/sdb is the path of the USB disk.
It can take up to 5-6 minutes depending upon how fast your system is.
After the process finishes, we are ready to use it as a windows 10 installer.
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