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Creating a bootable windows USB from Linux

Creating a bootable windows USB from Linux Preface In these time, CD/DVD drives are becoming non-necessary part of a PC. Net-Book like PC's usually will not have any CD/DVD drive. New Operating systems like Windows 7/8 also targeting these systems. So there are official way to install a fresh copy of OS from USB drive. Situation I am Linux user and currently there is no Windows* PC s available to me . I just want to experience the Windows 8 I have a Windows 8 Image/files I have a running Ubuntu PC I have an 8 GB USB disk I want to install Windows in a old PC which doesn't have support for UEFI boot. Solution Prepare the USB drive Enable the boot flag on the target partition of the USB. It can be easily done with the use of the tool called " GParted ". It is a GUI tool for drive partitioning . Copy the files from installation files to USB If the installation image is a ISO file, Mount it and access the files. Copy the all files to root of US