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Windows 10 usb tool reddit windows 10#

Download Windows installation ISO, create new temporary directory in your home and mount it there:.

Sudo mount /dev/sdc1 ~/tmp-win10-usb-drive

Mount new USB partition to temporary directory in your home:.

Format new partition as NTFS (thx for -Q idea):.

THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!! > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries > First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 15646686 > Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33 > Partition table holds up to 128 entries > Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes > Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): 0700 > This option deletes all partitions and creates a new protective MBR.

Open USB block device using gdisk /dev/sdc, configure it as GPT and create Microsoft basic data partition (code 0700), then write changes and quit ( Next steps will destroy partition table in your USB drive!!!).

Mounted partitions can be found with mount -l | grep '/dev/sdc', then unmount with sudo umount /dev/sdcX (where X is partition number). Some distributions like to automount USB drives, so make sure you unmount them.

Insert USB drive to computer and make sure it is unmounted.

Steps for creating USB drive with name /dev/sdc ( Replace all commands with YOUR device name!): Windows installer also cannot work with an EFI partition (code ef00), so we will use Microsoft basic data partition type (code 0700).

Windows 10 usb tool reddit windows 10#

Notice, that since Windows 10 October 2018 release the installation file sources/install.wim is larger than the maximum FAT32 file size, so we will format USB drive to NTFS. Windows 10 October 2018 release UEFI bootable USB drive on any Linux distribution.