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I'm quite new of Ubuntu... I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and what I want is to burn a Windows ISO image on a USB Flash Drive. Now, using the default Startup Disk Creator, seems that it doesn't recognize ISO images different from Ubuntu (or at least, I try to select the Windows ISO but nothing really happens). Then I've installed K3b but, then again, this time the problem is that it seems to not recognize media different from a CD. I'm sure that there's a way to do it with K3b and I'm just missing it. Anybody can help me?

Pella
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You can't burn an arbitrary ISO image to USB stick. Technically, you can, but it will not boot. For image to boot, it must have special USB-ish header, in which case it is called a "hybrid" image.

Is you image hybrid? If yes, just use dd command to copy it directly to your USB device, like:

dd if=EvilOS.iso of=/dev/sdh

Be very careful with what you put for the of argument (which will not necessarily be sdh) and read some manual on dd beforehand.

If no, find instructions specific to OS you want to put on USB. You will need to run some scripts or change ISO content in the process.

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