Hey #KDE you know what would be really nice?

If KDE Partition Manager had feature parity with GNOME Disks

#kdepartitionmanager #gnomedisks

Creating a Windows Boot Disk with Linux

Recently I’ve been helping folks who have Windows machines. In one case I needed to create a Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 bootable drives to install the operating system on physical hardware. Microsoft has a media creation tool that works very well if you have a Windows host system to make the media on. My daily driver is a Linux Mint 22.2 system.

In the past I have used WoeUSB-ng but for whatever reason i could not get that to work properly. I have had no success creating Windows media with the dd command which works great for many assignments but I does not work well when creating bootable media for Windows. Another one of my favorite tools for creating bootable media is Etcher but it will not create USB boot drives for Windows systems.

That’s when I discovered a new way to create a USB drive that would solve my problem. I found the answer and it worked quite well. The first thing you need to do is open the ‘disk tool’ on Linux Mint or Gnome-disks. Attach the USB drive to your computer and open up Gnome-disks. Choose the disk to be prepared and format it.

Click on “Gear” to configure how the drive will be formatted and select the “Format Partition” at the top of the options box. Give the volume a name and then be sure that “For use with Windows (NTFS) is selected and finish formatting the drive.

Now your USB is ready to accept the files from the ISO you downloaded from Microsoft. Mount the Windows ISO by right-clicking on it and choosing Open with disk image mounter.

Once the disk image is mounted you copy all the files to the newly NTFS formatted drive and you are ready to use the drive to install on physical hardware.

In the end, the solution was refreshingly simple: format the USB with NTFS, mount the ISO, copy the files, and you’re ready to roll. Microsoft makes their installation media rock‑solid, and with a little Linux ingenuity, you can create Windows boot drives without ever leaving your desk.

#gnomeDisks #linux #windowsBootDisk

DF-mini-tutos : Comment utiliser #GParted ou #GnomeDisks pour #formater simplement un #disque dur externe ou interne avec #Debian #GNU #Linux

rendez-vous sur notre chaîne #PeerTube

https://video.tedomum.net/videos/watch/7c440747-c8ea-440e-a1c8-3afff729eea2

DF-mini-tutos : Comment formater simplement un disque dur sur Debian GNU/Linux

https://video.tedomum.net/w/gm17TeVT5g8WN1Nwhj2kRm

If you want to see Gnome Disks in action on a Phone in a video, check out my "Flashing the PinePhone from on the PinePhone" video starting at 9:30: https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/010aa5d1-ecdf-434e-aa92-ebad781d75af?start=9m30s

#Pinephone #GnomeDisks #Pine64 #MobileLinux #librem5
cc @gamey

Just some screenshots of Gnome Disks running on the Pinephone.
#Pinephone #GnomeDisks #Pine64 #MobileLinux #Librem5

Note: With Gnome Disks you can easily manage your partitions and drives/sdcards. As you can see it scales really well and is in my opinion a absolute must have.