Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Wait wait. How did it work on my mac then?I mean i had MacOS on my external HDD, and i wanted to install windows on my internal SSD.What i did is get the iso, format my SDCart as exfat in disk utility, copy all the files from the windows iso in to the SDCart main partition i just created, then copy the bootcamp drivers and it surprisingly booted up!I was kinda surprised at that too. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591495/#p591495 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Hello,in diskpart, you can specify the filesystem.When writing "create partition primary", just add "fs=ntfs" URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591463/#p591463 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Yeah, my BIOS is already configured, I've had this machine for a long time.Also yeah, I've done a lot, an *lot* of googling. I figured hey, it's linux, this is probably easily doable, so I didn't exactly give it much thought until I actually needed it. Turns out there's at least a billion and 1 guides out there, half of which tell you to use a tool that doesn't even work any more, the other half of which all disagree with 1 another and, again, tell you to do things that just plain won't work. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591452/#p591452 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat I'm pretty sure diskpart needs admin. have you just googled "make Windows install usb from linux"? This seems like one of those questions that should have a billion tutorials on it.Also: even if you do this right, if your BIOS aren't configured p[roperly you'll need a sighted person to change the boot order before it works. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591449/#p591449 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Yeah see, rufus requires admin for whatever reason, there for I can't run it. So do diskpart and, to my knowledge, the media creation tool as well.What format does diskpart use by default if you don't tell it in the command? I mean, I generally would assume fat, but then, size limitations. Just the standard windows 10 ISo is about 5.7 GB now, never mind how big it'll become when extracted. Previous attempts at using fat have just resulted in it failing after a while due to it not being able to go bigger than 4 GB, despite me having ample space on the drive. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591446/#p591446 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat You said you have a Windows 7 machine? Then go ahead, grab Rufus, run that and push your ISO over to your USB key. Thats probably the easiest solution. Plain old DD might work for simple images as well, but as soon as you want UEFI compatibility, there's more to it, and I don't know any Linux tool which can do that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591440/#p591440 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Yes, Windows media creation tool works on Windows 7.However, you can use diskpart to do this as well.Typically, it goes something like this:You insert your USB, open a command prompt and type Diskpart. Now, you need to figure out what the disk number of your USB is, typically 1 unless you have multyple hard drives in that PC. To do that, type "list disk" and that will give you each disk number along with the size.Assuming your USB is disk 1, then you write "select disk 1". Then, "clean" to format the USB drive and delete all partitions. Now, type "create partition primary". This primary switch is what places the important boot sectors on the drive. Then, you can just write "select partition 0" to select the partition you created. "active" will make it active. The last thing you will do is of course extract the ISO file to the drive itself, and this will allow you to boot. I have used this multiple times and it worked fine, typically extracting it with something like WinRar. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591434/#p591434 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Yeah I kinda figured that myself, but I've read quite a few guides which say that method works, all be it on slightly older versions of windows. At least if you're on linux, the general consensus seems to be, assuming the image is small enough, format a USB as fat, then mount the ISO and copy everything over.Hmm, guess I could just use a VM to create the thing? I feel like there must be a better way on linux though, I mean, on windows we have rufus god dam it. There's gotta be something to rival that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591433/#p591433 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat You should be able to use the media creation tool from Windows 7. I'm not sure if you need admin access though.The other way to do this is to do whatever the USB equivalent of writing an ISO to a thumbdrive is. Maybe literally writing an ISO. You can get images and do it that way. But what you can't ever do is just copy files over, that's not how this works. Windows is distributed as a byte-for-byte copy of the disk, and you need something that copies that byte-for-byte copy back over it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591423/#p591423 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Wow that's, fucky. I mean, I would use the media creation tool but, I'm kind of on linux, and the only other PC I have access to is A, windows 7, and B, not an admin system.After doing some research I found something called woeusb which supposedly can do this, but whenever I click start, it always gives me an error saying that the drive is already mounted and to try unmounting it first. But, guess what, that doesn't work either. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591413/#p591413 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Yeah, windows media creation tool and call it a day. It has to be NTFS plus some special boot sectors that aren't part of the filesystem. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591355/#p591355 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat You don't. You cannot achieve this with ex-fat, and it's not enough to burn the iso, you have to actually put some boot files in a special part of the drive.I suggest you use the windows media creation tool, or something similar which can do this.Here is quoting an answer from quora:It wouldn’t help formatting the drive before making the installer on the drive. The act of placing the downloaded ISO file onto the drive overwrites whatever is already there. At least if you use the normal Media Creation tool from Microsoft.I.e. you can format it anyway you like, it doesn’t matter an iota. it’s going to get reformatted anyway.The usual way the Media Creation tool formats the drive for you is by making 2 (or more) partitions. One of them formatted as NTFS another as FAT32. Both contain boot files, mapping to the installation OS on the NTFS partition. This way it can be booted from either a BIOS or a UEFI system.If you wish to make something like this manually then it becomes a very involved idea. Usually best to get a decent boot making tool instead, just too easy to make mistakes. Personally I tend to use MultiSystem / MultiBoot so I can place multiple ISO files onto the same USB drive and then choose URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591350/#p591350 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Re: Making a bootable windows USB with exfat You don't. You cannot achieve this with ex-fat.Here is quoting an answer from quora:It wouldn’t help formatting the drive before making the installer on the drive. The act of placing the downloaded ISO file onto the drive overwrites whatever is already there. At least if you use the normal Media Creation tool from Microsoft.I.e. you can format it anyway you like, it doesn’t matter an iota. it’s going to get reformatted anyway.The usual way the Media Creation tool formats the drive for you is by making 2 (or more) partitions. One of them formatted as NTFS another as FAT32. Both contain boot files, mapping to the installation OS on the NTFS partition. This way it can be booted from either a BIOS or a UEFI system.If you wish to make something like this manually then it becomes a very involved idea. Usually best to get a decent boot making tool instead, just too easy to make mistakes. Personally I tend to use MultiSystem / MultiBoot so I can place multiple ISO files onto the same USB drive and then choose URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591350/#p591350 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Making a bootable windows USB with exfat
Making a bootable windows USB with exfat Hey all,So I'm trying to create a windows USB. Fat doesn't appear to be an option due to it's file size limitations, but when attempting to use exfat instead, it just simply won't boot. I mean, I know my boot order is set correctly, the drive just simply won't boot. I've found a shit tun of nothing useful on the internet, how are you supposed to do this properly? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/591330/#p591330 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
