I am using linux is why i posted this here
I have tried every single guide i could find.
it wont work.
I am trying to make a bootable win10 usb so i can install it on an old laptop to update a piece of equipment that requires windows.
It’s been hours and hours of my time I never imagined this could burn a whole afternooon…
I treid this one
GNOME Disks provides an intuitive graphical interface to manage storage drives. It comes pre-installed on popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian. If Disks is already available on your system, simply launch it and jump to Step 4.
TIP: If GNOME Disks is not installed, use your distribution‘s package manager to install. For example, on Ubuntu/Debian run: sudo apt install gnome-disks
Insert your USB drive and launch GNOME Disks.
In the sidebar, click your flash drive‘s entry (check the size to verify)
Select USB in Disks sidebar
Click the menu icon next to the drive name and select "Format Disk" from the context menu.
Format disk menu option
Confirm your selection in the prompt and click "Format" in the dialog after setting "(MBR/DOS)" for the new partition table. This will completely erase all data on the drive.
Format disk confirmation prompt
Wait for formatting to complete. Then click the "+" button to create a new partition.
Create partition button
In the "Create Partition" dialog, set capacity and partition type as NTFS.
Set partition details
Open your Windows 10 ISO image file, right click the icon, and select "Open With Disk Image Mounter". This will mount it as a virtual drive.
Open the newly mounted drive, select all files/folders, copy them over to your flash drive partition you just formatted.
Copy Windows ISO contents
After the copy completes, right click the USB partition and eject it safely. The drive is now ready to be used for installing or repairing Windows.
The GNOME Disks utility provides an easy graphical way to format drives and configure partitions. But if you‘re looking for advanced storage management, GParted is an excellent choice. Let‘s see how to create Windows 10 media with it.
I tried several other ones too I tried restoring disk image like i do with linux iso and NOTHING IS WORKING IT JUST WONT WORK MAN…
what am i doing wrong???
I honestly should never have removed windows from it. I knew I would need that pos OS at some point for something and they seriously make it harder than anything i have ever installed ever, to install on a computer. I don;'t get it man. It’s ruining my entire day.
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To flash a windows USB you need woe USB. Full instructions are on the github. https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng
This worked dude thank you so much.
I tried getting it to run on the old laptop since I didn’t care a bout it but my god of course that user (which is the only one ) wasn’t allwoed to run root adn instead of reading up for an hour on how to edit the groups I finally just ran it as root on my personal machine and it worked. thank you man I was for real about to snap the laptop in half i was getting blinded with rage.
I normally don’t lose my cool like this so easily but I have to update this to use it or else I lose my job so windows just doing everything it could to not work was making me lose it man.
Figured this would be like making a linux usb. HAHAHAHAHAHA
No, windows is weird, the ISO is not actually a compressed copy of a disk with all the correct partitions and filesystems, instead it’s some goofy UFS thing. So unlike Linux, burning it won’t work - you can’t do or use anything like dd to end up with a bootable drive.
You can create it by hand though, iirc all you’d need to do is make a separate FAT32.EFI partition and copy some of the EFI files in the ISO’s EFI folder into that, while placing the rest in a normal NTFS partition, there might be more to it with a recovery partition or something like that involved so def look it up if you ever need to, but that’s the gist of it.
The specialized tools like WoeUSB basically do this for you.
Is it normal to have to be running this as superuser?
Man I can not believe Microsoft makes it this fucking difficult to make a bootable usb. It is honestly insane
Yes, unfortunately. You might be able to use it as a normal user if you are a member of the ‘disk’ group, but its not consistent and it may still actually need root to do all the loopback setup and so forth that you need to make the Windows install ISO sane.
Yes, you need root to write to a disk device. The tool needs to create completely new partitions so Windows works.
Microsoft comes preinstalled on most computers and their Creation Tool works ok. I don’t think they care for the rest.
Whenever I need a bootable USB I always go for ventoy, much easier to just copy over the image.
That said, if you’re having a lot of trouble it might be something else, say a bad USB, port or image. I’ve had devices that can’t recognise particular usb sticks or from a particular port for no apparently reason. Sometimes its just cursed.
Making a windows11 bootable flash drive is a mega pain in the balls on anything other than windows. The easiest way to do it is to install ventoy. Then make a bootable ventoy flash drive, download the win11 iso, copy that iso onto the ventoy bootable drive. As long as you’re using a newish version of ventoy, you won’t run into secure boot issues.
Way way way easier than trying to make a dedicated windows bootable installer.
Edit: everything applies to win10 as well
Assuming you already have a valid Windows .iso installer:
Just use Ventoy (it can be used on Linux as well as Windows).
Or if you have access to a running Windows system then Rufus or YUMI are other options you can use.
Any chance you could achieve what you are trying to do from a Windows VM instead?
You don’t need to format the drive if you’re writing from an image.
Install Balena Etcher (also available in Gnome Software), select the ISO you want to write from, and the target USB drive, write it, then it’s usable.
Windows install ISOs won’t work like that, you must use WoeUSB to write it or Ventoy to boot it
Plus ventoy has the advantage that you can just throw a bunch of ISOs on the drove and it’ll boot them all.
If you want dual boot, then usually: install windows, repartition and install linux.
But… Why not just run windows as a vm on your linux desktop? Not wine and the likes, just a vm in virtualbox or boxes or kvm
Because it will have errors with device access I am almost 100% sure. But yeah, I’ll try it with GNOME Boxes or something but I already know it’s going to start talking about udev rules and stuff like that and then it’s another time sink to figure out.
I tried going to the library to use their windows but you cant download anything (like the garmin updater) so I don’t even know what the point is of having them there honestly.
I fear the day my garmin forerunner 305 dies on me … I push and pull all directly in gpx format using just my debian desktop. It auto-imports into workout-tracker too
Have you considered gadgedbridge? I use it for my huawei band instead of the huawei apps. Everything lands in a sql database you can even query directly using sqlite3 and script around the data
