Windows 10: How to flash an internal ssd partition with a linux iso in windows

Hi everyone so i was learning how to dual boot and want to flash an arch linux iso on my internal partition on win 10 can anyone advise me how to do it as rufus and etcher sometimes have the issue of corruption when flashing to an internal partition.

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A way to install W10 on a external SSD with Linux on internal SSD?

Hi there

@doriandiaconu

Windows2GO is quite easy to do -- works perfectly :

Here's how to do it easily :

so assuming you have the Windows iso and a spare ssd external USB drive

target Windows partition -> drive W
target EFI partition -> drive S
Source windows iso image drive Q

i've put quotes around the dism commands to stop "smiley's" being generated in the command lines.

1) create EFI partition

in administrator mode : -- diskpart,list disk select disk nn clean convert gpt, create partition efi size 250
format fs=fat32
assign letter=S

2) create Windows target partition -- still in diskpart create partition primary, format fs=ntfs quick
assign letter=W, exit

3) mount the windows iso -- simply click on the iso with file explorer -- will mount - here I assume it's Q

4) you might have more than one windows image on the iso - especially if you created the iso from UUPDUMP so you need to display what windows versions are on the iso image :

"dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:Q:\sources\install.wim"
in my case it shows that windows for workstations has index 2 so that's the version I'll use on WTG drive

5) use dism to get the image on to the target drive

"dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:Q:\sources\install.wim /Index:2 /ApplyDir:W:"

On a decent SSD could take around 10 mins for this step

5) now create the boot entry on the target drive in the UEFI :

W:\Windows\System32\bcdboot W:\Windows /f UEFI /s S:

note - you must run this command using the program from the image copied to the target Windows drive--not your running Windows system or the mounted iso.

Now all done -- simply re-boot your external Windows to Go drive - install and update at will.

@Megahertz - if you run Windows2Go on an SSD connected to the machine via UXB3/USB3.1/USBC >SATA connector Windows runs perfectly fast enough on an external device as Win2GO - probably similar to internal HDD's - and if your internal HDD's are older Spinners (non SSD / NVme) then it will run a lot faster.

(If boot fails use Macrium Free stand alone recovery media and use "Fix Windows Boot problems" - this for me has always worked - and I've done a load of these "WintoGO" things.


However depending on what you use most - I'd have LINUX on the external drive and Windows on the internal one -- or run Windows as a VM on a Linux Host - simple to do - or run Linux on a Windows Host.

You've loads of choices here.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Bootable USB with ISO - What am I missing?

Have you copied all the files from the ISO to the flash drive? I can't see that step.


After step 10. (after formatting and making it the active partition)

Copy files from the ISO to flash drive.

Open CMD as administrator.

navigate to the flash drive, lets call it drive Z and type in the following commands.
Z:
cd boot
bootsect.exe /nt60 z:
exit


Then try again.

 

DualBooting Gentoo Linux with Windows 10

Hello, a few weeks ago I backed up my Windows 10 PC, so that I could install Gentoo Linux. This backup includes a full backup of my entire Windows 10 System onto my 1 TB Toshiba External Hard Drive. This also includes a system image, and a separate backup
of my Windows Registry. Then I created an installation media ISO via the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool, with it set to create for "This PC". I used Rufus 2.12 to attach the ISO image to my 16 GB usb flash drive, with it set to create for UEFI gpt, but it
ended up creating it with an mbr instead, also my SSD had an mbr partitioning scheme at the time, and I wanted my SSD to have a gpt partitioning scheme. Before I went through the Gentoo Installation process, I of course made sure the usb was bootable and
it was, although like I said before my SSD was still an mbr partition and I did create the ISO using "This PC", also I had my CSM set to Legacy mode on my motherboard which is off now. I also have a Windows Repair Disk that I had created a few days earlier.

For my Gentoo Linux installation, I have the GPT partition scheme setup like so:

• /dev/sda1 - efi Fat32
  
• /dev/sda2 - swap
  
• /dev/sda3 - root ext4
  
• unallocated

The file system looks like this if you need to know:

/dev/sda3 is mounted on to the root of the file system /,

Which has the following directories mounted on the file system

• /boot - has /boot/efi directory;has /dev/sda1 mounted on to the /efi directory
  
• /proc
• /sys
• /dev

I ended up using rEFInd as my default boot manager, so those are the files on my efi partition.

What I want to know is how can I install Windows 10 to the unallocated portion on my SSD?

• Where can I download a new ISO for Windows 10 on Linux, if I need a new one?
  
• Do I need to create a new partition within the unallocated portion of my SSD, before or after boot the Windows Installation media?
• How many partitions do I need for the Windows partitions?

I'm sure that I have left out some information so just ask if you need anything else,

Thanks,