DanceMomsSavedMePlease please please help me with a windows install
https://piefed.social/c/linux/p/1875171/please-please-please-help-me-with-a-windows-install
DoomguyTo flash a windows USB you need woe USB. Full instructions are on the github. github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng
Is it normal to have to be running this as superuser?
Man I can not believe Microsoft makes it this fucking difficult to make a bootable usb. It is honestly insane
This worked dude thank you so much.
I tried getting it to run on the old laptop since I didn’t care a bout it but my god of course that user (which is the only one ) wasn’t allwoed to run root adn instead of reading up for an hour on how to edit the groups I finally just ran it as root on my personal machine and it worked. thank you man I was for real about to snap the laptop in half i was getting blinded with rage.
I normally don’t lose my cool like this so easily but I have to update this to use it or else I lose my job so windows just doing everything it could to not work was making me lose it man.
Figured this would be like making a linux usb. HAHAHAHAHAHA
LainTrainNo, windows is weird, the ISO is not actually a compressed copy of a disk with all the correct partitions and filesystems, instead it’s some goofy UFS thing. So unlike Linux, burning it won’t work - you can’t do or use anything like dd to end up with a bootable drive.
You can create it by hand though, iirc all you’d need to do is make a separate FAT32.EFI partition and copy some of the EFI files in the ISO’s EFI folder into that, while placing the rest in a normal NTFS partition, there might be more to it with a recovery partition or something like that involved so def look it up if you ever need to, but that’s the gist of it.
The specialized tools like WoeUSB basically do this for you.