![]() ![]() You came here with a USB drive that seemed to work but complained about a missing install.wim You have a little patience, internet available and have the right permissions to install a couple packages required to achieve our goal of a bootable Windows 10 USB.but why aren't you using the Microsoft tool if you have Windows available (maybe you like doing it the "hard" way to learn more about how things work?). You have a USB drive you have formatted with FAT32, either using "Files" in ChromeOS or Disk Utility or Gparted or the command line equivalents (fdisk, mkfs.fat32, and/or parted) in Linux or the Disk Utility or the command line diskutil in macOS or just formatting the drive by right clicking and doing "Format" in Windows.You have an ISO downloaded to $HOME/Downloads/Win10_1903_V2_English_圆4.iso or your native language equivalent.Assumptions (yes I know what assume does to do U and Me) Since FAT32 can only handle files up to 4GB (it truncates anything larger), the "fluffy" install.wim that exceeds this limit gets corrupted and results in a USB that you can boot from, but fails partway through attempting to install Windows, luckily it usually stops before it deletes the partitions that currently exist on the destination hard drive, so you may still have a bootable system that you can follow these directions to salvage or properly prepare the USB drive. This might have been E_FAIL from p7zip/7zip, or a hard to spot error in the logs when you cp or 7z x the entire contents of the ISO over to a FAT32 USB. You probably stumbled across this post because you got an error trying to use Unetbootin or 7zip or hdiutil and diskutil or Disk Utility when trying to make a bootable Windows USB. Problem statement (Your biggest problem is you need Windows. Whatever operating system you are using to create the USB, you will need to have a Windows 10 ISO, either from Microsoft or your system manufacturer and have a USB drive 8GB or larger (or one with at least 5GB of free space and using the FAT32 filesystem, but using a fresh and empty one is best). MAGIC aka Making Anything Gruelingly "Impossible" Coherent ![]()
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