I have a windows 7 install disk that I would like to make into a bootable USB key so that I can install the OS on a computer without an optical drive. I have tried a number of different tutorials/methods on my kubuntu 10.04 laptop (64 bit), but so far nothing has worked.
The first thing I thought of was to try kubuntu's startup disk creator, but I would get an error like: Could not move syslinux files in "/media/8F0E-C29F": [Errno 2] No such file or directory. Maybe "/media/U3 System" is not an Ubuntu image? I then tried ripping the install disk as an iso file and then using UNetbootin to make a bootable USB. I used K3B with "copy medium" to create an iso image of the install DVD; I assume that there is nothing fancy about this operation. I saw no error messages during the process. However UNetbootin takes about 1 sec to go through the process of copying everything to the USB and saying "done" (no errors are generated). Not surprisingly, the USB key is not recognized as a bootable medium. I have even tried using Gparted to format the USB as fat32 with a boot flag, then mounting the iso file and using dd to copy all of the contents to the USB key. There were no errors in copying, but it was never recognized as bootable (yes, the BIOS is set to first boot to the USB). I used kubuntu's startup disk creator to put kubuntu 10.10 on this same USB key and it worked correctly, so I don't think it is the USB key. My question is, has anyone successfully made a bootable windows USB key using Linux? If so, how did you do it? Thomas _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
