In Ubuntu how to burn a Windows .iso to a USB device with WoeUSB?
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Solved - How to burn a Windows .iso to a USB device?
sudo woeusb --target-filesystem NTFS --device Win10_1809Oct_English_x64.iso /dev/sdb
sagar@sagar-HP-Pavilion-Notebook:~/Documents$ sudo woeusb --target-filesystem NTFS --device Win10_1809Oct_English_x64.iso /dev/sdb WoeUSB v@@WOEUSB_VERSION@@ ============================== Mounting source filesystem... Wiping all existing partition table and filesystem signatures in /dev/sdb... /dev/sdb: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (dos): 55 aa /dev/sdb: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success Ensure that /dev/sdb is really wiped... Creating new partition table on /dev/sdb... Creating target partition... Making system realize that partition table has changed... Wait 3 seconds for block device nodes to populate... Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes. Creating NTFS volume structures. mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day. --2018-12-16 08:28:04-- https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/raw/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113 Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbatard/rufus/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img [following] --2018-12-16 08:28:05-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbatard/rufus/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.192.133, 151.101.128.133, 151.101.64.133, ... Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.192.133|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 524288 (512K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘/tmp/WoeUSB.BeXrvh.tempdir/uefi-ntfs.img’ uefi-ntfs.img 100%[===================>] 512.00K 3.19MB/s in 0.2s 2018-12-16 08:28:06 (3.19 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/WoeUSB.BeXrvh.tempdir/uefi-ntfs.img’ saved [524288/524288] 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 524288 bytes (524 kB, 512 KiB) copied, 0.289953 s, 1.8 MB/s Mounting target filesystem... Applying workaround to prevent 64-bit systems with big primary memory from being unresponsive during copying files. Copying files from source media... Installing GRUB bootloader for legacy PC booting support... Installing for i386-pc platform. Installation finished. No error reported. Installing custom GRUB config for legacy PC booting... Resetting workaround to prevent 64-bit systems with big primary memory from being unresponsive during copying files. Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_source_1544929040_7202"... Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_target_1544929040_7202"... You may now safely detach the target device Done :) The target device should be bootable now sagar@sagar-HP-Pavilion-Notebook:~/Documents$
It took around two hours, 120 minutes or so.
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1This doesn't work for me, I get
wipefs: error: /dev/sdb: probing initialisation failed: No medium found
. With the USB stick mounted it's certainly mounting at/dev/sdb1
, so I don't really get it.– KingsleyFeb 14, 2019 at 2:06