Ubuntu :: Startup Disk With Windows ISO?
Jul 18, 2010
I have a 1 tb external hard drive and I was trying to put a windows.iso on it with startup disk creator but everytime I would select the windows iso it wouldn't show up.
Some background:
- the disk images are from the reboot disks that came with my labtop
- I do not have access to windows
Edits:
Using gparted, I turned my external hard drive into a bootable and put both ISO disc on it. Once I plugged it in my labtop and turned my labtop on, I get an error messages that says "BOOTMGR is missing".
- I ripped the both ISO images from the 2 system recovery disc that I ordered from HP specially for my brand of laptop.
- My CD-ROM drive does not work, or else I would have just used the disc regularly
- The operating system currently on the labtop is Ubuntu 10.04
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Nov 27, 2010
Ubuntu have a great tool (the best) Startup Disk Creator help we make a live USB for Ubuntu!My question is: can I use it for an windows.iso!? Can I use this to make an USB to Install window!?After that i will bring my two USB around, see my friend and say:"Hey, do you want a fress install Window (they will lost there license) and after that - Sr, but why dont try Ubuntu!)
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Jun 20, 2011
I have the windows 7 install iso but no windows computers! startup disk creator only lets me use ubuntu variants. I have a mac and ubuntu 10.10, and i have so far found no way to write an ISO to a disk without paid windows applications like ultra ISO, its driving e ******* crazy, every time i want to write an ISO to a USB stick i need windows! and now i have a virus (trust windows)! Why can we only write .iso files to a disk in this world?
Can someone please point me in the direction of modern civilisation, were i can write an ISO to a pendrive for FREE with linux or macoh and i forgot to mention, im a sensible human being, so i dont have a disk drive - im not booting to the mac
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Apr 28, 2010
This utility doesn't work it won't format and won't boot the one time I got it working. Now it has broken my usb flash drive as gparted won't format it to anything . I tried the alternate unetbootin program and now it won't see the flash drive because the startup program trashed it. I still think the external usb devices is the most frustrating part of ubuntu and needs serious fixing. My new netbook install won't see any of my external drives.
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The program damage my external hard disk brand Western Digital of 1 TB and 3 partition of that disk. I'm deeply sad and hopeless... googling a little bit I found that this is and old problem, was my first try. I have a lot, of very important information, I don't even know if is this the right group on this forum to put my question.
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In /media/....Directory not empty, maybe "/temp/..." is not an ubuntu image
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