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I already installed woeusb. I created a ~150GB partition formatted as ntfs. It currently doesn't have a mount point. I'm trying to dual boot Windows from Ubuntu, and the laptop initally came with windows boot loader and the whole shabang- lenovo yoga pro 13. Here's the output of lsblk:

lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0         7:0    0     4K  1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop1         7:1    0 219.2M  1 loop /snap/code/97
loop2         7:2    0  65.2M  1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
loop3         7:3    0  81.3M  1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1534
loop4         7:4    0 227.7M  1 loop /snap/code/96
loop5         7:5    0 248.8M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/99
loop6         7:6    0 164.8M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
loop7         7:7    0  44.7M  1 loop /snap/snapd/15904
loop8         7:8    0 110.6M  1 loop /snap/core/12834
loop9         7:9    0  54.2M  1 loop /snap/snap-store/558
loop10        7:10   0  44.7M  1 loop /snap/snapd/15534
loop11        7:11   0  55.5M  1 loop /snap/core18/2409
loop12        7:12   0  61.9M  1 loop /snap/core20/1494
loop13        7:13   0  61.9M  1 loop /snap/core20/1434
loop14        7:14   0 111.7M  1 loop /snap/core/13250
loop15        7:15   0 169.4M  1 loop /snap/spotify/60
loop16        7:16   0   5.5G  1 loop /media/elle/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9
sdc           8:32   1  14.6G  0 disk 
└─sdc1        8:33   1  14.6G  0 part /media/elle/windows
nvme0n1     259:0    0   477G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0 320.2G  0 part /
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 156.3G  0 part

I tried to follow the tutorial here: https://opensource.com/article/21/2/linux-woeusb. Here's the output of Woeusb:

sudo ./woeusb-5.2.4.bash --target-filesystem NTFS --device Win10_21H2_English_x64.iso  /dev/nvme0n1p3
WoeUSB v5.2.4
==============================
ERROR: Target media "/dev/nvme0n1p3" is not an entire storage device!

Here's a screenshot of gparted: GPARTED

Only including an image because I can't copy paste it really lol.

If anyone has any ideas, or if I actually should have mounted it before I tried, let me know. When I try the command but on the flash drive instead of the partition it gives me:

ERROR: Target media "/media/(name)/windows" is not a block device file!
Simon Sudler
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Amy S
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WoeUSB is designed to create UEFI bootable USB sticks. Therefore WoeUSB needs to create at least 2 partitions on the target device. This is way the WoeUSB, fails with "... media "/dev/nvme0n1p3" is not an entire storage device!".

If you want dual boot to work, you need to chainload the Windows UEFI boot loader.

e.g. in /etc/grub.d/40_custom add something like

menuentry 'Windows 10' {
    search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root CC66-4B02
    chainloader (${root})/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
}
Simon Sudler
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