Use this tutorial to learn how to format a USB in ExFAT format in Linux. This newer format allows files bigger than 4 GB. You should then format the USB in ExFAT format. In that case, FAT filesystem won’t work as it doesn’t allow a single file of size greater than 4 GB. Newer Windows 10 ISO might have files larger than 4GB. It is now ready for creating bootable Windows 10 USB disk. Once done, your USB should be automatically mounted. Give a name to your USB and hit Create button. Select the entire USB disk as the partition size. Now, you need to create a partition on the newly formatted USB. It will show you a warning that you data will be erased. It will ask to choose a partitioning scheme. Format USB before creating Windows 10 Bootable USB In the Disks tool, make sure to select your USB drive and hit format. You have to use this tool to format the USB key. In Ubuntu, press Super key (Windows key) and search for ‘Disks’. You have to format it so make sure that you don’t have important data on the USB key. Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel for More Linux Videos Step 2: Properly format the USB for creating bootable Windows USB If you want to use WoeUSB graphical tool for creating Windows bootable USB, you can jump to that section directly. It creates a UEFI compatible bootable disk.

The second method is to use a tool like Ventoy.

This works most of the times but there could be instances where it wouldn’t boot.

The first method is mounting the ISO image of Windows to a USB disk formatted in ExFAT system.There are two ways to do that and I have discussed both in this tutorial. I am using Ubuntu for this tutorial but the steps should be valid for other Linux distributions as well. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to create a Windows 10 bootable USB in Linux. If you are uninstalling Linux from dual boot or if you want to reinstall Windows completely or you simply want to have a Windows installation disk ready, you’ll need a bootable Windows 10 USB or DVD. How about the other way round? How about creating a bootable Windows 10 USB in Linux? I have talked a lot about creating bootable USB of Linux in Windows. Brief: This tutorial shows you how to create a bootable Windows 10 USB in Linux with and without a GUI tool called WoeUSB.

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