Windows 10: Installing Windows 10 through Ubuntu Linux 20.04 without usb stick

Hi, I'm helping my friend installing W10 on his new device, thing is, neither of us have a usb drive of large enough size.
So, I'm under the impression that it is possible to install W10 if you boot into a partition which contains the ISO image.

I have some Ubuntu usbs (all 4GB so not large enough) So we installed this to his PC in the hope that we can install W10 through this. (We could go and get an 8GB USB but ideally W10 is needed ASAP.)

We've made a partition formatted with NTFS and it contains a windows 10 ISO that we downloaded. Is there anything we need to do to make this work (To boot to it and install W10)? We gave the partition the "boot" flag.

Unreleated but still an issue, since i've also tried this with a non-windows ISO lying around, the partition that we made isn't showing up in the Linux bootloader, GRUB, so I don't really know how to boot to it.

:)

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Windows 10 USB boot

Hi there, am not a windows 10 expert. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system.

System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.

Downloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus; as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick.

So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.
If i were to use the usb win10 installer to "repair installation" does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?

There is three options:
Windows 10
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 N

Also is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. Preferably with more compatibility.

System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6.

Also is there any other software I can load onto the usb that can repair the bootloader easily?
That would be the ideal alternative. Thanks

 

Planning on installing Linux (Ubuntu?) for the first time

I have a very old laptop which slow as hell, so I want to install Linux on it and give it to my mum (she literally just browses the internet)

I've never used Linux before, but I've read you can boot linux and run it from a USB stick; I want to do this first before installing it to the hard drive to see what it's like

I've tried this , but it says "an error occured while executing syslinux. Your USB drive won't be bootable" *Frown

Also on the drop down list provided in the install app, which version of Ubuntu should I install? 'cos there's loadsss