issues making Windows usb bootdisk from linux...

[Kilroywashere]

Hey Im having a hard time making a usb boot drive for windows 7  using Linux Ubuntu.....I use GParted to format the Fat32 drive and FuriusISO to mount  but its not working it wont let me mount the ISO ....  WinUSB does not seem to want to install on my computer as well... Im sort of at a loss.... I even made a virtualbox windows  to try and download Rufis.exe  but its too slow  ....

Help please ! I badly need to this laptop on windows again

[Kilroywashere]

So just copy and past the Windows.ISO onto the Fat 32 usb? and if my computer is not super old it will run and install windows?

[Kilroywashere]

Ok, Whats dd?  Dungeons and dragons?

It wont let me Extract the files...


I right click the file and i click "Extract to" I pick the USB drive  and


An Error occurred wile extracting files
Ignoring out-of-order file @19 (readme.text) 51200 <55296

[Kilroywashere]

Ok thanks a bunch ... I will have to look up how to do this device dump a bit more ....

I would of liked to just extract the files onto the usb .... but i dunno why its not letting me .... Maybe this disk dump might work for me ....
It just seems a little confusing at the moment


Thank you so much for your help !!

[Kilroywashere]

dd is a tool that allows you to directly writing/reading a device at block level. dd = device dump.

To use dd, first get the device path of your flash drive. You can do so by open gparted and it will list all drives. Select your flash drive, and you should see a path like /dev/sdx, where x is a letter.

You should always double check it as if you F up, you can nuke your main hard drive. You can check it by using "sudo fdisk -l" to see if it's properly mounted to a removable media mounting path, such as /Media.

Then, use "sudo dd if=xxx of=/dev/sdx bs=1m; sync" to nuke everything on your flash drive and substitute with the new iso.

xxx is the full path of your ISO file. Quote it with quotation marks if it contains spaces. /dev/sdx is the device path of your flash drive.

Then pray that you did dd to the correct device. You will find EVERYTHING is nuked if you dd to the wrong place, so please check it very carefully.

After a long time (after all, you're writing 3.x GB to a flash drive), the command should finish and you should see the command prompt again. Eject your flash drive and you are good to go.

 "first get the device path of your flash drive"                            /dev/sdb

Then, use "sudo dd if=xxx of=/dev/sdx bs=1m; sync"            So open a terminal and type sudo dd if=xxx of=/dev/sdx bs=1m; sync

xxx is the full path of your ISO file                                            So like the name of the folder i have the iso file? /home/kilroy/Downloads/


Im lost right here

[Kilroywashere]

Urg.. Im sorry to bug you.... I did it but it might not of worked ... It just said ....

sudo dd if=/home/kilroy/Downloads/Windows.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1m; sync

dd: invalid number: ‘1m’

[retiredcaps]

I just used woeusb today to make a Windows 10 USB 4GB boot disk.

https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB

[Kilroywashere]

I just used woeusb today to make a Windows 10 USB 4GB boot disk.

https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB

WoeUSB also does not want to install on this computer .... its odd i tried like 3 different programs woeUSB and WinUSB did not work ... they would not open ...

[Kilroywashere]

The dd did not work....  unless i did not do it right but i think i did ... Maybe my computer is too old? but ill have to find another way...