How to Create Bootable Windows 10 USB in Ubuntu Linux Without WoeUSB [2019]
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- If you want to create a bootable Windows 10 USB in Ubuntu or other Linux distributions, the procedure is dead simple.
In an earlier tutorial, I used WoeUSB to create the bootable Windows USB: • How to Make a Bootable...
The problem is that WoeUSB is not available in all Linux versions and the software crashed for several users.
So, this time, I am showing you the method that doesn't require WoeUSB or any additional software at least in Ubuntu Linux.
You can read the text version of this tutorial here: itsfoss.com/bo...
I'll brief the process anyway. Here are the steps:
Step 1: Download Windows 10 ISO file. Here's the link to the official website: www.microsoft....
Step 2: Insert a USB disk (of capacity equal or more than 8 GB) and format it to Windows compatible format like FAT (recommended) or NTFS.
Step 3: Mount the Windows 10 ISO and copy its content and paste it to the USB disk. Once the files are copied, your bootable Windows 10 disk is ready.
To use the bootable Windows USB, plug it in the computer and restart/power on the system. Now at the boot time, press F10/F12 to go into the boot settings and choose to boot from the USB/Removable media. Once you do that, you should see that the Windows giving you the option to install it or repair the system.
Congratulations! Your bootable Windows 10 USB is working fine. Let me know in the comments if this method worked for you or not. 
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UPDATE: use NTFS to format the USB because the file is too large with the recent .ISO sizes in 2020
I can not boot in NTFS format.
yeah the usb doesn shot , but when i use fat32, the use will show in boot manager :-(
@Abdul Bah This tutorial worked for me. Isn''t so simple like previous WIn10 versions....
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@Cobie Emily Check my link in comment above.
@@emvo10 that link is private video
In case u are installing Windows 10 then format the usb to ntfs...because fat32 doesn't allow to copy files more than 4 gb
Thanks
Thank you so much for showing how to do this. I am in the middle of a tech nightmare and you really helped me.
So glad it helped you. Please do subscribe :)
Holy shit me too ..it's 2am rn and I m doing this.instead studying lol
@@Itsfoss thank you so much bro..
I read it in the website i hope it works!
@@Itsfoss how can I install tiny windows 7 or tiny 10 on and an Sd card? I have the bootable USB but the installer doesn't see my sd card formatted into NTFS which is where I want to install it on.
I just installed Windows 10 on a virtual machine and then downloaded the Windows media creation tool to create the booteable USB. It worked for me.
Fat32 only allows 4gb, windows is 4.8 if compressed so how it works with this guide??
@@amir3515 win 7 extreme ultimate liteOS its 1.8gb an works awesome..
@@amir3515 If it's a Single file then the Problem occurs else not.
What virtual machine is it
Thank you for this video! Although formatting in FAT or exFAT didn't work, formatting in NTFS did the trick. If you are getting a blinking cursor when trying to boot the usb, try formatting in NTFS and see if that helps
You're welcome, G Seven. And thanks for the tip.
Stay subscribed. Happy Linuxing :)
Oh thanks. G Seven.
Thank you very much. It was giving me an error like fat32 size limitation, then I got crazy at that. After again watching this video, it worked thanks man and a sub from me :)
That’s right thank you
@@Itsfoss I can not boot in NTFS format. Just Ubuntu normally started.
Short and simple.. some of the best linux tutorials i've seen on youtube! Earned a sub and a like, much love from East Coast USA
For those wondering, NTFS format is for windows, FAT 32 and 16 is for Ubuntu, please search the disk formats of your respective OS in order for it to work properly
Firstly, WoeUSB worked for me! I had to select NTFS because I got a size-related error when FAT was selected (Windows 10 iso content is greater than 5GBs). Secondly when I initially tried your method above, selecting FAT did not work because of the iso size, and NTFS did not work, so i selected exFat from the "other" menu (had to install dependencies first: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install exfat-utils). However, when I booted from the flashdrive, all I got was a black screen with a blinking cursor. Anyway, WoeUSB worked great. I don't know why your method did not work with NTFS because selecting NTFS with WoeUSB worked great. Thanks for your video. It helped me alot.
So glad it finally worked for you, Michael. Thanks for your comment and please do subscribe :)
this does not work with november edition of windows iso , bootdisk failure , missing operating system .
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Same for me and another commenter, but I figured it was just because my BIOS only supports Legacy boot not UEFI.
@@ohokcool so its works or not ?
got any solution?
@@ohokcool Mine has UEFI and it doesn't work either.
I swear to god I go through this process once a year because I inevitably lose this install drive and get on my backup linux laptop running antix and get these lovely reminders about how install.wim is too mf big for fat32 and blah blah blahhhhhhh. Do this:
Use gparted, unmount, format partition to ntfs, right click partition, manage flags, check boot, click ok, (edit: don't forget to apply the changes by going to edit>apply all operations), browse to the mnt/windows10 folder you made, remove the drive and put it back in, copy all files from mnt/windows10 to the folder that pops up, hate yourself for taking way too long to do this.
thanks man
I'm not able to manage flags, however, most of the other options such as 'Check' and 'Mount' to are available
@@tahacharef26 I think it'll be unavailable if the drive is mounted. Not at home to check that though.
this also will not work for the firmware on most motherboards. The UEFI spec does not include support for NTFS, so a custom uefi loader is required.
The simplest solution would be for Microsoft to just provide a disk image that makes sense for thumbdrives and follow the uefi standard rather than being intentionally obtuse.
thanks a lot, great works you do at Its FOSS. (I use ubuntu in all my computer and laptop except this laptop for teen who her school "only allows MS windows")
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I have one 16 gb memory card can I make it?????
You really save my year buddy hope you get more followers🙏🙏🙏🙏
Happy to be of help :)
i do follow all instructions word by word, but when i boot it doesn't recognize my USB, also showing message no operating system found. what do i do?
Yes man, linux is very useless
When I restart and try to put the usb first to boot my system doesn't recognize it as a bootable device... Any ideas so I can fix it?
Same trouble, you did it? Did you use the ntfs format?
Format it again and this time use windows nfts format
@@DavidCarrizoGuitarra yep
@@Gigaboii-zk6um I found a better method.
@@DavidCarrizoGuitarra what was it?
This is the best video
I have been on this for almost 7 days now until I stumble upon this video.
Thank you really
It's worked. Thanks for your pure and simple guiding. This video is the best and easiest option to create bootable windows usb on linux.
I got blinking underscore issue on boot,, anyone else like me?
same
Same here :v
same here
Same here :/
Yehh
How did you fix it
I am sure it wont work, how can it be able to boot just by copying the content of win 10 without making it bootable?? I think the usb is already bootable and used before and so it bocomes bootable but not shown in this video. Copying just the content over ordinary usb drive wont ever boot.
It does work because the boot files are in the same partition as the file content
Yeah it's not wo
Worth
For win10 doesn work a file copy a file .wim is to large to fat32
I am struggling to get it to work on my computer, I am redownloading the ISO file now to see if that helps, and then starting the process over again, I get all the way into the boot launcher and then I select my flash drive and nothing happens, it just forces me to boot into Linux
I have a lenovo thinkpad t550 if that info helps at all running ubuntu 20.04 Lts
Did you find a fix? I am facing the same issue.
Thank you so much! Tried multiple linux distros and they didnt really click with me so I looked at this video and low and behold found an amazing tutorial! The files are copying onto my flash drive now so hopefully it works!
Great to hear!
When i boot , only blinking a dash when i select my bootable usb
Same
@@DMVMENACE it means you loose your os just make rebootable your usb and reinstall your os otherwise no options for this I tried it
@@kumarpritam9161 What do you mean make a rebootable usb and reinstall your OS?
Same here
Use NTFS to solve that problem.
Computers show this is not a bootable disk please insert a bootable floppy and press any key to try again help me please
My PC does not recognise my windows 10 bootable pendrive which I made with your way. But it recognises the Ubuntu bootable drive.
Same here
@@prakasheditz123 if your problem is not fixed yet. Try making bootable drive from Rufus in a different PC. Not a single app on android can create a proper bootable drive for Windows 10. My PC recognised my drive when I made it using UEFI system.
@@skygazer2678 yes I am thought that before,but I don't have another pc so now I am trying to install windows 7 on virtual box on linux and make a bootable usb using windows 7 in virtual box.I think it works. and thanks for the reply 🎉bro👍I think it works,What's your guess?
@@prakasheditz123 yeah that will definitely work.
@@skygazer2678 yeah bro👍fine I will inform you if it it's done
It didnt work for me even when i changed it to ntfs it shows the cursor it calls it a pmap
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Yes man, whenever I click the start button (in WoeUSB), it'd freeze.
I tried this in nearly all the desktop environments.
It worked.... Very helpful and no other extra SW needed.
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Mine says no operating system found on usb
I tried it at least 10 times with win10 and older versions and it doesn't boot . I must be doing something wrong...
Same wapis
Windows 10 is currently bigger than 4gb, so it wont work with fat32, you have to choose ntfs for the partition. Besides that if you choose ntfs you cannot use uefi mode since the uefi specification says you must use fat32. I dont see how this will ever work
Can you boot directly from grub2?
what about using exFat format instead of those two?
Error splicing file: File too large Prints out
I'm using the Fat32 file system, should I use NTFS instead for solving this issue?
Yes
Bus while using ntfs... In boot menu pendruve is not showing
@@mohammedsameer1303 try getting an older windows 10 ISO file and use that with Fat32 formatting
Ab to ho gya.. 😂 Windows 8 dalni pdi... My pc configuration doesn't support windows 10 lol.. 😂
did using NTFS solve the issue???
It worked, thanks
Edit: Try this if it's not working.
In second time it did not work because, the install.wim file in sources file was more than 4GB, So I had to split .wim into .swm files.
You are welcome. Don't forget to subscribe :)
@@Itsfoss Already did.
How do I boot into windows may I ask?
Man it works thank you very much you saved me 🌹
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when i boot my pendrive it shows error in splicing file file too large
Sir please help me
yeah that also happens to me, i'd like an explanation on how to fix that
Use exFAT to format the usb. The w10 file is now larger than 4GB, so you need to use exFAT instead of FAT32
Use ntfs
I'm new to Linux and I get an error that doesn't let me open the iso with disk image mounter . It says "failed to execute child process "gio-launch-desktop" (no such file or directory)"
Nevermind , idk what I was doing before but it worked now . Thanks
Can i use this method to install other linux distro in ubuntu
Tried this with a 16gb usb. and it didn't work. The file 'sources/install.wim' was too big. I don't understand, the whole thing is only 5.4 gb
format it as NTFS not FAT
@@anshumanxda NTFS won't boot
Same, mate. I'm stuck with Linux.
@@ahamedjunaid01 try WoeUSB , It worked for me. Did yesterday only
@@anshumanxda I already tried Woe but it won't launch.
Edit: I just figured it out. Installed Wine 🍷 and used YUMI. Thanks for the suggestion this.
It says unable to copy install.wim
Format your USB to NTFS format (not as shown in this video- fat32). Fat32 allows you to write 4gb files and install.wim has around 4,5gb
@@devraj6339 check flags
Nothing is happening when I boot from my usb,, black screen
Nice, it is so simple I didn't believe it will work :D
Hahaha ... Glad it worked for you Pavao! Hope you have subscribed :)
bro i had did ths same method but in my pc when i select usb on boot menu its show me blank page and its load as hifen on corner of pc
please if you have any solution for this say to me
Did you find your answer?
I have the same problem
i have the same problem. i will come back if i find a solution
I faced the same situation. Some say that when you see the blank page with cursor, you just have to wait for 10-20 minutes and then it will work. It worked for many. So give it a try. I waited for like an hour but nothing happened. After that when I desperately searching for the answer I found one which worked for me. Firstly you have to download Windows media creation tool. So just type in Google "Windows 10 iso file download" and then enter into the Microsoft site. If you are browsing in Ubuntu it shows direct iso file download type. So here you have to use someone else's system which has Windows OS. There when you go to that Microsoft site download Windows media creation tool. After downloading open it and it will download the necessary files. Insert your flashdrive and select it in the app, it will finish the process. Use this flash drive in your system in which you wanted to install Windows. This worked for me. Hope it works for you too. Let me know if you face any more issues
i did everything correctly but when i open up boot manager it doesnt recognize my USB. What do i do?
go to disk and mount the usb
i have the same problem
Tried to just copy like you said, but it wont boot on my laptops tried on 2 (just getting blinking cursor) :/
Same issue
I solved it by creating it on Win10 pc with official Microsoft tools.
If you're having trouble like I was. Follow this..
type in terminal: sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
And push enter
when your format USB. Click on other and select exfat. The windows iOS is larger than 4gb there for exfat will be able to mount it.
Sources: appuals.com/how-to-format-a-drive-as-exfat-on-linux/
Thanks
Thank you so much! I have been wondering how to fix this for hours!
Glad to be of help :)
Working as charm
So So glad it worked for you! I hope you have already subscribed :)
It says "this is not a bootable disc" when selecting it in the usb boot screen
Woe Usb is Useless anyways. It generally works with the older versions of Ubuntu however I was Beta Testing Ubuntu 20.04 and it failed to work. However, I generally do this which is a layman way and most efficient :) Glad you put it up here!
@asrar b - you can use GParted or disks to format your disk, create a partition and then just copy windows files in the disk. It will boot
When I boot from the USB flash drive, there's a blinking underscore, it keeps blinking and nothing happens. Please someone help me !
Same problem
Did anyone solve this problem? Same here
same problem
Same
i thought who download windows highly compressed so its prblem show
Thank you, it works, now i can install Windows by my self!
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When i boot from usb it says insert media creation tool and press enter?
Didn't work, it show "no such fylesystem found". My usb uses ntfs because win 10 has a file bigger than 5gb.
Use a tool like Ventoy. It should work.
Simple and useful 👌
mantaps gan, im from indonesian.thanks for the video
@@prospectexhangie ya dong
Many thanks for that straight forward video.
I tried woeusb, disk utility tool and even the mannual method using dd. All failed. 😢
So have you made it now ??
If so then please help me
@@exploringnaturalbeauty2102 yes I made it finally. It was fat32. I had to clear it to NTFS and try again
A very helpfull vidio - thank you very much!
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vidio
Bro can you make video of battery life comparison of laptop which running Ubuntu Linux and windows 10....
Hmm.. for that I have to use Windows ;)
Good suggestion though. I'll see if I can do that.
@@Itsfoss plz tell me results as soon as possible I am seriously consider installing Ubuntu Linux on my laptop for educational work...
@@Praxss win10 probably working for 50% more time, than ubuntu in my case
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3:20 at this time my cursor in showing
2021 it doesn't work.
NTFS
win10pro.iso
Ubuntu 20.04
God bless you 🙏
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@It's FOSS - Linux Blog, OS theme details please
Opps ! I meant to say does NOT complete. It halts and will not continue.
That does not work, the files cannot be copied because Microsoft used a file that is too big for fat32, exFAT wasn't recognized ad bootable, Linux won't mount NTFS, and Windows can't read ext4.
ExFAT worked for many users. Anyway, there is another way using Ventoy tool. You may try that.
Copy/Paste > WoeUSB. what a useless software haha
Thanks !
This method is useless if you have a modern HDD or SSD that is GPT. It also doesn't work if you have a UEFI.
Woeusb didnt work for me so i'm trying this method
yeah there are several corner cases that will prevent this from working. a custom uefi loader is required to boot from NTFS on most machines, and recent windows isos contain an install.wim too large for fat32. So its actually mandatory to use a tool that contains a custom uefi loader for most people with a recent windows disk image and normal firmware.
Which icon pack are you using?
Tela icons with Ant-Dracula GTK theme.
Please help Foss, so I followed the steps and now I just need to boot from usb. But I do not know how to do it. I tried F12, F10, or ESC but nothing works. Final screen goes to some kind of command prompt screen and I have no idea what to type in order to boot it from usb.
Use F9 maybe.
The very unfamous but effective way is to boot win98 using fat32 formating system and create partition as you like and intalling win98. Then using NTFS boot system and upgrade to windows 10 or 11 or whatever.... it always works and not many people knows it
thanks bro😀
You're welcome, Naveen. Stay subscribed. Happy Linuxing :)
The Install.wim file is not copying in my pendrive.
Format the USB as NTFS
@@32Praful okay I'll try it. Thank you
I have done each and everything but still when i boot through usb linux start up i fomatted the pendrive before installing windows in it because i used this pendrive for installing linux
I had to change the format to exfat so the usb could store de data. If you can not select it you must install "sudo apt install exfatprogs". It worked for me. Thanks for the video !
This is wrong. I boot into the USB and windows says that there is no driver available.
the one weird thing I find about this procedure is-- works well in Linux but if you try to essentially do the same thing on a Windows host, it does not work i.e. download ISO, mount it, copy it to a USB recently formatted..... does not work.... I wonder why ????
Can’t believe it was so simple! :D
Worked for me on Pop!_OS 22.04 creating a Windows 8.1 bootable USB
Doing it on Pop!_OS too!
I tried using both fat and NTFS.
But the usb is not showing up in the boot options.
So changed the boot mode to legacy.but then I can only see a blinking cursor ....
What is the problem?
How can I fix this?
I hardly subscribe to anyone. This is great. I love your laptop!
And I like your demeanor lol
Hi Abhishek,
I Received an error 'install.wim' is missing when iso is mounted.
Please resolve this issue asap.
Thanks in advance
You probably format you USB devise in FAT32 filesystem. So try to format in NTFS filesystem. Personally, it helped me.
Here's the link: github.com/slacka/WoeUSB/wiki/Limitations#fat32-filesystem-4gib-single-file-size-limitation
Hope, that will turn out helpful for you as well.
Nice! Work very well!
The USB option doesn't appear in the boot menu, what do I do?
same here
Thank you Bro with the help of your video I installed my windows 10 in my pc thank you❤️❤️❤️❤️
Glad I could help. Enjoy!
I had problems getting WoeUSB to install onto Linux Mint 18.3 xfce so I tried using VMWare Player & virtualised Windows 10 to make Windows 10 install usb. I just used the media creation tool on the MS W10 download page. It worked flawlessly, & I made a second usb to be sure. Both usbs boot perfectly into the Windows 10 setup. To avoid any disasters I suggest unplugging any external hard drives before doing this in case you choose the wrong usb device! While VMWare player installed perfectly on my Linux Mint 18.3 I have had problems getting VMWare Player to work on recent Ubuntu distros. However, I was amazed at how effortlessly this method worked to make a bootable W10 usb. So anyway I hope this may help someone.
Just to add that I had tried the method in this FOSS Linux Blog tutorial & for some reason it didn't work so I decided to give the VMWare Player method a shot! (Yet another option & not needing VMWare Player at all, would be to download the Windows 10 32 bit version which is smaller & can be burned to a DVD. Then install W10 32 bit version. Then go back to the W10 download page & use the media creation tool to get the W10 64 bit version onto a usb. Finally install W10 64 bit version.)
I tried this and for FAT32 you cannot simply copy paste for files more than 4GB. So I reformatted to NTFS and works
thanks a lot bro
i cannot forgot this day
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This method failed. It opens to a "Grub" system and rescue prompt. I have no ways of knowing what the rescue entry is. Thus a waste of time for me.
This won't work. The file install.wim in the sources directory is more than 4gb which is above fat32 limitations. You need to use a utility called wimlib to split the file into chunks ta make it work.
Did you try using ntfs instead of fat32?
Didn't work for me, it did not start the installation...
Same problem on Ubuntu 18. Do you find the solution?
@@marijuanimation4250 No, I'm sorry. I did ask a friend, who has a computer with windows 10 installed. It worked this way, but any other way with Endless OS and MacOSX didn't work...
super, I was struggling with installing external apps like woeusb, or even through cli. now, I know the procedure is so simple just the same as windows. I also got to know about formatting the drive using the 'disks' utility. thanks
Thank you so much for the tutorial, whenever I would copy the iso files to the usb it would freeze and not work but now it works so thanks
i booted my usb with windows 10 when i boot my laptop i go to device boot manager i clicked on usb its booting on ubuntu not windows 10 please help me
u need to use an other windows pc to put on the usb with the microsoft tool
Really Helpful Guidance. Thanks Buddy !
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when i started to booting the usb it only shows blinking curson and a black screen i waited for 1 hour if windows setup might show but nothing is happening instead the blinking black cursor any solutions ......
@TinyOne I go to the third option as u said it's System setup something so I taken me to BIOS settings then I selected f9 it says default configuration so I pressed (yes) then exit the BIOS I won't get the option of "UNIK" or whatever u said
@TinyOne plz help me bro I badly wanna install Windows 10
Partiton of Exfat file system will only work. Exfat is not by default installed on linux. To install exfat : sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
thanks, sadly didnt work (did everything like you in the video and chose the usb-stick as first boot option and plugged it at the backside of the Pc. When trying to boot from it nothing happens.
This is old method. I have shared a newer method in the article which is mentioned in the description.
Thank u for this tutorial :)!
Worked perfectly.
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When I go to start the pen it starts Ubuntu again and not the installation of Windows. How do I solve it? Help me please
Have your tried prioritizing your boot menu ?
You have to press f2, f8, f12 or delete key (whichever works depends on laptop models)
and go to the boot options, I assume you can change the values with f5/f6 prioritize the menu, save and restart
I have the same issue. The USB Drive is on top of the boot order, but nothing happens and then Ubuntu starts again.
It doesn't work. The cursor is blinking.
Thank you for this tutorial!!
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