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Why didn't dd make a bootable Windows USB stick?

Has anyone tried to burn a Windows 7 USB installer in Ubuntu?

Usually I run dd to burn linux ISOs, and I thought it would work for Windows 7, but the stick I burned with dd doesn't boot up on my Thinkpad T42.

The dd command ran successfully, so why didn't it work? Do you think the boot information wasn't recorded into the USB stick correctly?

dd if=SW_DVD5_Win_Pro_7w_SP1_32BIT_ChnSimp_-2_MLF_X17-59520.ISO of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
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