Monday, April 14, 2025

Making UEFI bootable Win 11 USB drive on Linux

I searched for making bootable win 11 drive on Linux. Many results point to WoeUSB. I read WoeUSB's code and found out I can do it manually.

Steps,

  1. Format the USB drive with MBR.
  2. Create two partitions, one 10MB, the other bigger than Windows installer ISO.
  3. Write this image into the first partition. 
  4. Format the second partition in NTFS/exFAT.
  5. Copy everything inside the ISO into the second partition.
  6. Umount the second partition.
  7. Remove USB drive.