Creating a Windows XP installation flash drive in linux

Question

How can I create a bootable flash drive to install Windows XP from under Linux?

I have Ubuntu installed on my PC and want to install Windows XP parallelly. I already have an NTFS hard drive, so what I need is to install Windows there and make it available through a boot manager. I also have a Windows installation .iso.

So how to produce a ready-for-installation USB-stick from this?

Answer 1

The article Create A Bootable Windows 7 USB Drive From Linux (Tested On Ubuntu) describes the procedure. Below is a a summary of the steps :

1. Install Gparted and format the USB drive to NTFS.
2. Open UNetbootin, select "Diskimage" and then browse for your Windows 7 ISO file.
3. Check "Show all Drives" box and select your USB drive, example "/dev/sdb1".
   If the drive is "dev/sdb" then select "/dev/sdb1".
4. Click "OK" button and wait for the files to be copied to the USB drive.

Answer 2

Since you already have a windows .iso, you may be able to make use of a tool like UNetbootin to make a bootable usb drive from the cd image.

Answer 3

Build 494 of unetbootin is used to support the "Show All Files" option to install on a NTFS formatted drive.