Once it’s done, you have a bootable Windows 10 USB in your hand. Wait for the copying process to finish as it may take some time in copying 4-5 GB of data. Now select ‘Open with other application’.

Go to your Windows 10 ISO, select it and right click on it. But to do that, you need to use ‘Disk Image Mounter’ tool that is installed by default in Ubuntu. ISO is basically an archive format and you can see it’s content like any zip file in Linux. You may ask, Abhishek, there is only one file and that is the ISO file itself. Now it’s time to copy the content of the Windows 10 ISO to the newly formatted USB. Step 3: Copy the content of the ISO to USB Use this tutorial to learn how to format a USB in ExFAT format in Linux. This newer format allows files bigger than 4 GB. In that case, FAT filesystem won’t work as it doesn’t allow a single file of size greater than 4 GB.You should then format the USB in ExFAT format. Newer Windows 10 ISO might have files larger than 4 GB. It is now ready for creating bootable Windows 10 USB disk. Once done, your USB should be automatically mounted. It creates a UEFI compatible bootable disk.Ĭreating a Bootable Windows 10 USB in Linux

The second method is to use a tool like Ventoy.

This works most of the times but there could be instances where it wouldn’t boot. The first method is mounting the ISO image of Windows to a USB disk formatted in ExFAT system.There are two ways to do that and I have discussed both in this tutorial. I am using Ubuntu for this tutorial but the steps should be valid for other Linux distributions as well. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to create a Windows 10 bootable USB in Linux. If you are uninstalling Linux from dual boot or if you want to reinstall Windows completely or you simply want to have a Windows installation disk ready, you’ll need a bootable Windows 10 USB or DVD. How about the other way round? How about creating a bootable Windows 10 USB in Linux?

I have talked a lot about creating bootable USB of Linux in Windows. Brief: This tutorial shows you how to create a bootable Windows 10 USB in Linux with and without a GUI tool called Ventoy.

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