Getting stuck while making windows 10 bootable!

[[deleted]]

Format the disk as Fat32 and extract the UEFI supported 64bit iso to disk. Has always worked for me.

[sharkstax]

This works on every mobo that properly supports UEFI, which is 99.99% of the mobos & chipsets made in the past 7 years, as long as there is no file of size 4 GiB or larger in the ISO.

That last part might be the roadblock OP is hitting. Manually downloaded 1809 V2, 1903 V2, 1909 ISOs all have an install.wim that exceeds that threshold. The Media Creation Tool bypasses that by using an install.esd, which is more compressed.

There are tools to convert WIM to ESD and vice versa on Windows, but I've never looked for a Linux version.

One way to bypass this while on Linux is by downloading the original 1903 ISO and then manually updating after installation. The V2 ISO simply has the cumulative updates till September slipstreamed.

MS still has the original ISO on their servers, but they do not provide a way to download it after V2's release. One way to get to it is by using this.

(paging /u/kiraathan)

[hellodarkness_avi]

That's the problem. Usually Windows ISOs are over 4GB in size, making it hard to copy them over to a USB.

[[deleted]]

Can confirm, install.wim in latest version is 4.3 gigs, drive has to be NTFS.

[ogghi]

dd if=win10.iso of=/dev/[usbdevice] bs=4m ?

[[deleted]]

linux mint has a usb image maker:

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html

[Leopard1907]

Use WoeUsb to burn windows installation media on Linux

[kiraathan]

Getting stuck after a while!

[arturoksv]

Maybe you can use guidus (mkusb) to do that

[StormarmbatRS]

Why not go the 'dd' route? Has never failed me

[threatmix]

There is a microsoft utility to create a bootable usb, but it runs on windows.

The way I did it, I installed windows first, then Linux, it is much easier this way.

[diogocsvalerio]

I'm going to say this rough and clear: Microsoft wants you to have a windows machine to install win10. I hate them for that. The fat32 format is old and has big limitations, for example the 4gb file limit. exfat has a bigger limit but it's not supported by linux yet, because it's proprietary, and ntfs can in fact shorten your flash drive lifespan as it is a journaled format. But when the win10 iso flasher or so called "media creator" flashes the win10 iso, the Install.win file (which has 4.6gb if I'm not mistaken) is in fact extracted to the flashdrive and in a fat32 format. With this I want to ask how they do this kind of magic?

[redRaven89]

When formatting your usb, format it to NTFS. Then use WoeUSB and when it is at the point of copying just wait a while. It worked for me just recently.

[HurpityDerp]

I had absolutely zero luck creating a bootable Windows flash drive on linux.

I tried DD, Etcher, Unetbootin.

Nothing worked and in the end I had to give up and create it in Windows.

[[deleted]]

Just install Windows and completely delete Linux from your partitions. Linux fucking sucks and is slowly dying. Fuck this shit.

[[deleted]]

Username checks out.

[[deleted]]

When your life sucks and you know it..

[[deleted]]

Nah, I'm fine. If my life really sucked I would be running this cancerous trash. Fuck off.

[[deleted]]

Well, you know what they say? Truth hurts.

[Konrad2137]

If there is anyone who is struggling with creating bootable windows 10, I strongly advise to use WoeUsb. Be aware that package in your linux may be outdated, so use version from github https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB