[sf-lug] creating Windows 7 installation USB from Linux, no good

[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

Hi to all,
I need to reinstall Windows 7 on my girlfriend's computer (netbook) using USB drive and I'm failing to do so.

First I have tried to install Gparted and format the drive to ntfs based on  this manual

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/create-bootable-windows-7-usb-drive.html


which seems to work.

In the next step I have installed Unetbootin but I did not manage to install the older version which is suppose to allow to create Windows 7 image based on ntfs, new version is suppose to cause troubles based on the manual (and now on my experience). If I format the drive to ntfs in the gparted, the Unetbootin doesn't recognize the drive as available and tells me to format it to fat32, which if I do it recognize the drive, do the installation of the ISO image but when I restart the computer it gives me the option to boot at the beginning from the USB but there is no select able option to click on, no Windows 7 installation available, so no good.

I'm now trying the terminal approach now fallowing this manual

http://anl4u.com/blog/how-to-create-live-bootable-usb-via-terminal-in-linux/


I have successfully formatted the drive to ntfs file system 

sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdc1

which took a while but it worked and I used the dd command to create the bootable device from it using the Windows 7 iso image

sudo dd if=/home/algoldor/Downloads/Windows7Ultimate/Windows7Ultimate.iso of=/dev/sdc


It took a while to happen but it worked (well I did not wrote the message down, mistake but it was claiming to finish successfully). I've tried to reboot the computer and nothing, I just booted to my Ubuntu distro (and I have USB booting as priority in BIOS).

I'm getting this output when using mount command

/dev/sdb on /media/CD_ROM type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500,uhelper=udisks)


and this if using df -lh

/dev/sdb        3.5G  3.5G     0 100% /media/CD_ROM


Please note that this is 16 GB memory stick.

So now, what can I do to either to create the bootable installation USB with Windows 7 on it or what is the other way to install windows 7 on a netbook which is connected to the network - final plan is dual boot with Linux (Ubuntu or Mint) and Windows 7. 

Please note that I do not have LAN yet, I have a problem to set up my own router somehow (next thing to sort out), so just direct connection to the Internet not to my Ubuntu machine.

Many thanks for any info,

Sincerely from Jeju,

FAA

Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck


biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker


http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org


"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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