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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?

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SO, the answer from @harrymc turn out well? – fénix May 21 at 13:05
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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.
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Alex, thanks for awarding me the bounty. Just to remark that it would be clearer to visitors of this site if you also marked this as the answer. – harrymc Aug 1 '11 at 13:46
Did you try this? – fénix May 21 at 13:05
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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.

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