Having trouble making a Windows 10 start up USB drive in Mint 19.1
by Lazlo Woodbine from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5GGF8)
Hi all. I'm messing about with an old Dell Vostro 200 desktop with two HDDs; One with a working installation of Ubuntu Gamepack and one I want to put W10 on.
Using my laptop running Mint 19.1 I made the Ubuntu Gamepack bootable drive using a 16GB Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 on "USB Image Writer". I used this to install it on the Vostro with no problems.
I then downloaded a W10 image and made a bootable drive the same way but when trying to boot from it the Vostro says "no boot device available".
I've tried re-writing the image after formatting the USB drive to ex-fat & NTFS but get the same error message.
I even installed Multiwriter on the laptop and used that, same result.
That same W10 iso installs fine on Virtualbox running in Ubuntu Gamepack on the Vostro so it must be good.
I'm a bit lost as to why I can't boot from a good USB drive with a good iso on a good machine. Any help would be gratefully accepted.
Using my laptop running Mint 19.1 I made the Ubuntu Gamepack bootable drive using a 16GB Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 on "USB Image Writer". I used this to install it on the Vostro with no problems.
I then downloaded a W10 image and made a bootable drive the same way but when trying to boot from it the Vostro says "no boot device available".
I've tried re-writing the image after formatting the USB drive to ex-fat & NTFS but get the same error message.
I even installed Multiwriter on the laptop and used that, same result.
That same W10 iso installs fine on Virtualbox running in Ubuntu Gamepack on the Vostro so it must be good.
I'm a bit lost as to why I can't boot from a good USB drive with a good iso on a good machine. Any help would be gratefully accepted.