I bought a laptop that came with Windows 8 on it. Used another laptop running Linux mint and the dd command to make a ubuntu bootable USB and thats what I'm running now. I want to create a Windows 10 bootable USB on my Ubuntu machine but I'll be damned if I can get this thing working. I downloaded a fresh .iso from microsoft (and tried three others I had on hand, including a Windows 7 .iso) and used the following procedure:
Created partition table on the USB drive (Tried msdos and gpt) and formatted a new partition (Tried NTFS and FAT32).
Flagged partition as bootable within gparted.
Unmounted the partition with:
sudo umount /dev/sdb1
Copied Win10 image over to the drive with:
sudo dd if=Win10.iso of=/dev/sdb && sync
Now when I reboot and try to boot to the USB I get no error messages it just boots right into my Ubuntu installation on my hard drive.
Funny thing is if I plug in my Ubuntu bootable USB it works just fine. Any ideas on what the problem could be?