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How do I go about creating a boot disk, or any other type of disk that will allow me to get command prompt access, on Ubuntu for a Windows laptop?

It has to be USB, as the second laptop contains no CD drive. But I cant seem to figure out anywhere what it takes to create a bootable USB from Ubuntu that will work in a Windows environment (NTFS).

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  • You're not very clear about what you want to achieve. You have two laptops, one with Ubuntu (U) and one with Windows XP (W). Do you want to access W from U? Do you want a bootable USB with full Windows on it, or only the command prompt? Will you use it on computer U or W?
    – theodorn
    Nov 20, 2016 at 19:27
  • Sorry for not being clear. What I want is to be able to access the computer with Windows, via command line, as all the passwords are lost to access it. In order for me to do that, I need command line boot options. For that I need to create some startup disk. The other computer that has to do that is a Ubuntu machine. Nov 21, 2016 at 8:18
  • OK, basically a lost Windows password problem. Have you seen this article on Wikihow? wikihow.com/…
    – theodorn
    Nov 21, 2016 at 19:07
  • Manipulating an external computer from within a Ubuntu one, is something I know very little about, but you may find something about that in this question. askubuntu.com/questions/104474/… I would suggest trying the Wikihow steps first, though.
    – theodorn
    Nov 21, 2016 at 19:12
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    NTFS is not visible on Unetbootin, but I worked around that. Nov 23, 2016 at 14:27

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I found a way to fix this!

Since Windows requires an NTFS bootable USB, it has to be created as such.

I installed http://gparted.org/ and formatted the USB as NTFS, and subsequently set a flag within Gparted to "boot", so that it can be treated as the boot drive.

After the USB is formatted, any ISO content can be moved to it.

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