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12bitfloat
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Trying to flash a windows iso on a usb stick from linux is making me wanna fucking kill myself

IS THERE ONE FUCKING SOFTWARE WHICH CAN FLASH A FUCKING WINDOWS ISO SUCESSFULLY??

From the 4 ive tried so far none of them worked. What the actual fuck is wrong with desktop linux sometimes

Ive already wasted 1 and half hour of this shit. On windows I would have done this in literally 3 minutes

Holy shit fuck me

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  • 3
    22d
    I thought the most reliable way to make windows iso was to use that windows flash drive program you have to download from microsoft. No idea if that will work under wine. I had problems so I make all usb flash drives in windows 10 using rufus. But windows bootable media I use the microsoft tool.
  • 3
    22d
    @YourMom Probably doesnt since it has to access to raw device

    I'm now using my windows laptop too. Linux is a fucking disaster sometimes
  • 3
    22d
    I flashed a Linux .iso to a USB earlier and it's so sexy

    you just cp

    that's it

    you don't even mount it first

    sexy.

    (pls don't take this out of context)
  • 4
    22d
    @jestdotty You'd have to dd it instead of cp it but that sadly doesn't work with windows ISOs because windows is retarded

    Dont ask my why but it needs special sauce to become bootable
  • 1
    22d
    @whimsical yeah but windoze.... sadly not that easy :P
  • 0
    22d
    You also need to format as FAT32 and mark the partition as bootable. And if It's EFI I think there's another special thing to do according to the spec, not all mobos follow the spec but some do. Can't remember what it was
  • 3
    21d
    @12bitfloat If it helps you, I like the 'Medicat'

    https://medicatusb.com/

    which provides a bootable rescue environment, that includes a Windows 10.

    Comes in handy when I need to repair a PC.
  • 2
    21d
    @D-4got10-01 Can you reinstall windows with it?
  • 2
    21d
    @12bitfloat It's a set of tools, one of which is a working bootable Windows 10.

    So if, for example, you need a Windows machine to run some Windows-based software, like Rufus, it'll be very helpful.

    Like a live ISO of a Linux distro - try before you install thing.
  • 1
    21d
    @12bitfloat Why didn't you just add the iso to the grub boot menu? ;P
  • 2
    21d
    @12bitfloat I've prepared a quick video which I can upload on snek, if you want to see a preview.
  • 2
    21d
    @D-4got10-01 Sure send a link
  • 1
    21d
    @BordedDev I was like 5 minutes before jumping off a bridge, I definitely didnt have the patience for grub :P
  • 2
    21d
    @12bitfloat To the main snek channel? Surely you have it bookmarked.
  • 2
    21d
    @D-4got10-01 Just watched your clip

    Looks pretty fucking rad to be honest
  • 2
    21d
    @12bitfloat Indeed. The thing has been prepared in such a way, that it's easy to add your ISOs to it, as seen by all those Linux distros, as well as the Windows running off of the flash drive, which comes in handy. Also, it comes preloaded w/ a bunch of tools for recovery && PortableApps so you have pretty much all the tools you need to recover a PC that is down.
  • 1
    21d
    @12bitfloat BTW you might want to look into ventoy, sets up your USB that you can just put ISOs directly on it to boot
  • 1
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    @BordedDev I give you one guess how the Medicat's been created.
  • 1
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    @D-4got10-01 hahahah nice
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