- #Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive how to#
- #Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive install#
- #Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive windows 8.1#
- #Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive Pc#
- #Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive iso#
To create a bootable Windows USB drive from Linux using WoeUSB in partition mode, use: Important: double-check that the USB device is correct before running the command! All the data on that drive will be lost! You must specify a different -target-filesystem. Without this, you'll get into an error in most cases, saying that the source image has exceeded the FAT32 4GiB file size limitation, like this: Error: File "/media/woeusb_source_1602672597_513603/sources/install.wim" in source image has exceed the FAT32 Filesystem 4GiB Single File Size Limitation and cannot be installed.
#Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive iso#
Wait a couple of seconds, then use the command below to list all disks connected to your computer, including the USB drive:Įxample with this command showing an USB drive attached to my computer: To get started, plug the USB stick you want to use to create a bootable Windows installation, into your computer.
#Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive how to#
How to use WoeUSB command line tool to create a bootable Windows USB driveġ.
#Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive install#
Wget -O /tmp/woeusbsudo install /tmp/woeusb /usr/local/binĪnother command line tool that can create bootable USB drives from Linux and Windows ISO files is bootiso. Now you can install the new, command line only WoeUSB somewhere in your PATH (the commands below download it and install it to /usr/local/bin): Sudo pacman -S coreutils util-linux gawk parted wget p7zip Sudo dnf install coreutils util-linux gawk parted wget p7zip Sudo apt install coreutils util-linux gawk parted wget p7zip On Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux distributions based on these, like Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, etc., you can install these dependencies by using (most are already installed, but just in case I'm skipping some packages that are almost always installed, like Bash or Find): p7zip is an optional dependency, required for example when the Windows 7 installation media doesn't ship with the USEFI bootloader in the proper location. The new WoeUSB has the following dependencies: Bash >= 4.3, Coreutils, util-linux, Grep and Gawk, Find Utilities, Parted, and Wget. How to install WoeUSB (command line tool) Windows PE is also supported.Įasy to use alternative to WoeUSB: Create A Bootable USB Drive By Simply Copying The ISO To The USB With Ventoy (Linux And Windows)
#Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive windows 8.1#
It's also wroth noting that WoeUSB supports non-ASCII filenames.Īs for supported Windows installation images, WoeUSB supports Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, in any language or edition. The filesystem can be either FAT32 or NTFS, and the source can be a disk image or a physical installation disk.
#Windows 10 usb tool to create boot drive Pc#
The new WoeUSB, which is now just a command line tool, supports creating a bootable Windows USB drive from Linux with support for both Legacy PC and UEFI booting. There's also an independent Python port of WoeUSB, called WoeUSB-ng, that's actively maintained. The tool that's used to create bootable Windows USB drives from Linux has been split into a command line program called WoeUSB, which is under active development, and a GUI called WoeUSB-frontend-wxgtk that's currently unmaintained.