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Flash USB stick for Windows from Ubuntu πŸš€

This article will should you how to create a bootable USB stick for installing Windows 10 / 11 from MacOS, here you can find ISO images for Windows.

🧹 Format your USB stick to NTFS

Install gparted to format your USB stick:

sudo apt-get install -y gparted
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  1. Select your USB device in the top right corner.
  2. Delete all your partitions so that you have only one (if you cant delete a partition then unmount it first by selecting that option through the context menu of that table item).
  3. Create the NTFS partition.

GParted GUI with one partition which is ntfs

πŸ’Ώ Installing & opening unetbootin

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gezakovacs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y unetbootin

sudo mkdir /media/hdd1
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/hdd1
sudo unetbootin installtype=USB targetdrive=/dev/sda1
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πŸš€ Flash it!

Select your Windows ISO image and flash it πŸ™Œ

UNetbootin with ISO & USB stick selected

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