Windows 10: Making a file on C: drive bootable from BIOS/UEFI

My dad won't let me install my favorite operating system Debian on his computer alongside Windows. However, I have a feeling he'd let me use Debian in a VM or in WSL2. So, my question is, how do I make a VM or Linux Subsystem using VirtualBox or WSL2 and then make it bootable from the BIOS so I can run Debian while remaining 'technically' within his rules.

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Install Windows 10 using UEFI bootable USB thumb drive

You need to go into you system bios and select allow uefi usb drive. Then add the UEFI usb drive to the boot menu

better way to partition aand create an bootable usb.

For the UEFI system, we can use these steps to create the bootable USB:

1.Locate a 4GB or larger USB flash drive

2.Open Diskpart and run the following command cmd admin type diskpart

• Type DiskPart in the command prompt.
• Type "List Disk” (make note of the disk number of the target USB drive).
• Type "Select Disk X”, where X is the target USB drive noted in step 4.
• Type "Clean”.
• Type "Create Partition Primary”.
• Type "format FS=fat32 quick”.
• Type "Active”.
• Type "Assign".
• Type "Exit".

Copy your ISO files to the drive and reboot

never use UEFI it better to repartition and remove UEFI go with legacy bois

 

How to make active@boot disk bootable on uefi/gpt?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...(v=ws.11).aspx

Read the important note under step 9. The procedure is written for legacy BIOS, and if the computer has UEFI, than the important note under step 9 says to format it as FAT32 instead of NTFS to make it UEFI compatible. The procedure is obviously meant for legacy BIOS because regular step 9 without the note has you format the flash drive as NTFS which is NOT UEFI compatible.

And I have several bootable USB flash drives that boot on legacy BIOS created with that exact procedure and not used the bootsect command on any of them. The bootsect command is only required to make HDDs and SSDs bootable. They are all formatted as FAT32 so they will also boot under UEFI.

 

Ipod bootable drive?

I want to know if I can make my ipod a usb bootable drive.. will it mess up my ipod? I need to flash my video card back to normal.. Neros bootable cd gave me an error. I used a step by step guide, but thats another story.