How to Create a (persitent) Bootable Windows 10 USB in Linux

[Akito]

@HadaDeLaLuna

I only have Ubuntu PC and need some Windows app for school those apps have not any conversion from proprietary to Open Source and homeworks have to be done in those proprietary files formats

What’s the program called?

@HadaDeLaLuna

I don’t like to destabilise my OS and totally failed to virtualized Windows (with PlayOnLinux and Wine) so I need a persistent MS Windows on an external USB disk.

Persistent as in a portable Windows?

@HadaDeLaLuna

How can I proceed to get an Bootable External Win10 USB disk using my Ubuntu 22.04LTS?

You can install Windows to Go, if you want a portable Windows.

I usually create bootable USB sticks on Windows with Rufus.

On Linux there is no such convenient and great to use tool, which is why you need to do it like a cave man, if you want to do it the best way, on Linux.

Once you have Windows to Go at your disposal, you can follow several ways of installation, or you can do it the Linux way, as described in Q6.

@Akito

Q6: Installation of Linux fails. How do I fix it?

First make sure the following things are correct.

If you are on Windows

1. Download the ISO image of the distribution you want to install.
2. Go to the distribution’s download location, once the download finished completely.
3. Shift + Right click the file.
4. “Copy as path”.
5. Press Windows button + R.
6. Enter “powershell” without the quotes and press Enter.
7. Enter following command: Get-FileHash paste-here -Algorithm SHA512 | Format-List. Replace paste-here with the path you copied in step 4, by right clicking into powershell. This process can take some time, so be patient.
8. Check if the hash output is the same as provided on the distribution’s website.
9. If it is the same, proceed with further steps. If it is not the same, repeat step 1-9.
10. Now download Rufus .
11. Open the program and burn the ISO to the medium of your choice in DD mode (very important).
12. Optionally, enable bad blocks check, if you aren’t sure that your live medium is good to go.
13. Once the burn process completed succesfully, retry the installation, once again.

If you are on Linux

1. Download the ISO image of the distribution you want to install copy the path to your downloaded ISO file.
2. Open a terminal and execute sudo apt install -y rhash.
3. Execute the following in a terminal: rhash --sha512 /path/to/file, replacing /path/to/file with the path you copied in step 1.
4. Check if the hash output is the same as provided on the distribution’s website.
5. Burn the ISO image, as described here .
6. Once it is burned, check the hash of the CD itself, as described in step 3, but this time replacing /path/to/file with the path to the actual CD.
7. If the hash is again the same, then retry the installation, once again. If not, repeat all above steps.