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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by foxrider on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:20AM (#27073626)
WoeUSB is what you have to use on Linux to create a bootable Windows thumbdrive, dd only works for isohybrid images, and Windows isn't one.
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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by selfhoster11 on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:25AM (#27074011)
WoeUSB hasn't been very reliable for me. I've had better results booting up a Windows VM to use Rufus with USB passthrough to the drive instead.
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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by wooben on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:19AM (#27075531)
I'm love/hating this idea because now I want to burn a LiveUSB running Linux with a QEMU Windows VM already set up on it. I can run it live and have Windows 10 "PE" or I can install it to a host and have Windows up and running fairly smoothly without going through the OOBE.
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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by moistbar on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:39PM (#27077824)
IIRC you used to be able to make a bootable Windows stick on Linux simply by extracting the contents of the ISO onto a USB stick and marking it bootable. Is that still possible now that EFI is everywhere?
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