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Trying to burn a USB bootable with Win10 from linux. Wasted a whole evening by now. :-(

Installed woeUSB and read the tutorials. Tried various things, even switched from USB drive. Did not format it at 1st then NTFS. It seems uefi-ntfs is larger than 512kB.

Here's the 'curse' and result from CLI:

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sudo woeusb -d /home/xxx/Downloads/Win10_21H1_EnglishInternational_x64.iso /dev/sdc --tgt-fs NTFS --no-color
WoeUSB v3.3.1
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Mounting source filesystem...
Wiping all existing partition table and filesystem signatures in /dev/sdc...
/dev/sdc: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (dos): 55 aa
/dev/sdc: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success
Ensure that /dev/sdc is really wiped...
Creating new partition table on /dev/sdc...
Creating target partition...
Making system realize that partition table has changed...
Wait 3 seconds for block device nodes to populate...
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.
--2021-10-26 00:13:33--  https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/raw/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.121.3
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.121.3|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbatard/rufus/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img [following]
--2021-10-26 00:13:33--  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbatard/rufus/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.110.133, 185.199.111.133, 185.199.109.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.110.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1048576 (1,0M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/WoeUSB.CsW6q3.tempdir/uefi-ntfs.img’

uefi-ntfs.img       100%[===================>]   1,00M  --.-KB/s    in 0,1s


2021-10-26 00:13:33 (8,75 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/WoeUSB.CsW6q3.tempdir/uefi-ntfs.img’ saved [1048576/1048576]


dd: writing to '/dev/sdc2': No space left on device
1025+0 records in
1024+0 records out
524288 bytes (524 kB, 512 KiB) copied, 0,589478 s, 889 kB/s
The command "dd if="${download_directory}/uefi-ntfs.img" of="${uefi_ntfs_partition}"" failed with exit status "1", program is prematurely aborted
Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_source_1635200001_9737"...
You may now safely detach the target device

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I am at a loss, searching the net for solutions... I downloaded the latest W10 and that did not work either.... What am I missing?

Hope you can help

user535733
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ARV
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UEFI:NTFS developer here (I am not the person developing WoeUSB but I am the person publishing the uefi-ntfs.img image used by WoeUSB).

We recently increased the size of the uefi-ntfs.img image from 512 KB to 1 MB, so that we could include binaries that are signed for Secure Boot, but it seems the WoeUSB developers hardcoded the size of the target partition where the image should be written to 512 KB, hence your issue.

As with any Open Source project that has a dedicated issue tracker, you should report this issue to the WoeUSB issue tracker so that they can update their code. Thanks.

Akeo
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WoeUSB maintainer passing by, this bug is now fixed in WoeUSB 5.1.3.

Buo-ren Lin
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Now we talk about the github version of woeusb

The github version is at 5.1.3 and works in Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS (and 18.04.x LTS, probably all current versions of Ubuntu, but I have not tested them).

PPA version of woeusb deprecated

Please be aware that the woeusb PPA version at ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 is deprecated (works in Ubuntu 18.04.x LTS but fails in 20.04.x LTS). Today (2021-11-07) it is at version 3.3.1 (dated 2020-02-13).

Test

  • From the WoeUSB github I downloaded and tested woeusb-5.1.3.bash as well as the version in the tarball. they differ only in the line specifying the version. So I used the separate version with explicit version number.

  • I used the command line

    sudo ./woeusb-5.1.3.bash --target-filesystem NTFS --device Windows11.iso /dev/sdx

  • wimlib-imagex was not found, and woeusb quit. It can be installed from the repository universe with the command

    sudo apt install wimtools

    It is needed, when installing into a FAT32 file system in order to split the huge wim file, but when selecting NTFS, the installation should continue without wimtools. That way the WoeUSB bash shellscript will work without wimtools (but it wants an internet connection in order to get uefi-ntfs.img).

  • The USB drive with Windows installer

    • created in 18.04.6 LTS and 20.04.3 LTS
    • boots both
      • in UEFI mode (also with secure boot) and
      • in BIOS mode (alias CSM alias legacy mode).
sudodus
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