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.

  • redlemace@lemmy.world
    21·
    4 hours ago

    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

    • DanceMomsSavedMe@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      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.

      • redlemace@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 hours ago

        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