• voxel
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    1111 months ago

    huh??
    you can just flash/dd the iso directly, no need for ventoy

    • Chewy
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      2011 months ago

      It’s not possible to dd a Windows ISO to a USB stick.

      What way too many people fail to understand, because Linux ISOs are applying this method, but this is essentially a MAJOR HACK CALLED ‘ISOHYBRID’, is that, in most cases, you cannot simply take an ISO image and copy it byte for byte to a USB drive, and expect that to boot.

      https://superuser.com/questions/1527197/debian-creating-windows-10-bootable-install-usb-drive-using-terminal-dd#1527373

    • LostXOR
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      11 months ago

      That didn’t work for me the last time I tried it (and neither did Ventoy). I had to borrow a Windows PC and use the media creation tool.

      • voxel
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        I’ve literally never used the media creation tool, i always installed windows from isos flashed with rufus/balena/dd/whatever

          • voxel
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            by media creation tool, i mean specifically the proprietary “Windows Media Creation Tool” that can be downloaded from the Microsoft website

    • @[email protected]
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      damn, really? i thought windows had some weird stuff that wouldnt work properly with dd. doesnt really matter. i have no need for windows anyways