How do I make Windows bootable from flash drive using Ubuntu?

[ufo8mymunky]

While installing Ubuntu I messed up and took off Windows completely from my hard drive.....I have the ISO saved on a flash drive but how can I make it bootable? I would like to keep both OS's but I can't seem to find instructions to make my flash drive boot up with windows...

[Peter D]

You may need to go into the BIOS to set up the boot order to boot from the USB drive first. Or you may be able to press F12 at the opening screen to choose boot device.

[ufo8mymunky]

yeah i already knew that...im just thinking that if i just start up my laptop with the flash drive that has the iso on it its not going to work right...i dont have to do anything special? or will it just work?

[jayd512]

So long as it's a bootable image, you need do nothing special.
But make sure that you have space set aside on your drive for Windows.
I've not installed Windows in quite some time, but this page might help.

[ufo8mymunky]

Thanks I appreciate it.

[ufo8mymunky]

So......it didn't work...I guess I need to make the flash drive bootable? When I shut down the laptop and restarted it...it said that the boot manager was missing...

[jayd512]

I've never installed Windows from a USB drive.
But as long as it's a standard .iso file, and your computer is set to boot from USB, then you should be able to boot it up.
Have you checked your BIOS options to boot from USB first?

[jonyo]

So......it didn't work...I guess I need to make the flash drive bootable? When I shut down the laptop and restarted it...it said that the boot manager was missing...

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...tml#post874720

You may need to go into the BIOS to set up the boot order to boot from the USB drive first. Or you may be able to press F12 at the opening screen to choose boot device.

did you check the above? doesn't sound like it's booting off the usb drive and could be a few reasons for that,

you could also try the usb flash drive iso on another 'pute known to boot up that way, to confirm the iso is good to boot up, how did you go about makin it?

how do you know win (which vers?) is gone off your HD? all depends what you did when installing ubuntu

can you boot from CD? what model 'pute?

bottom line is if your 'pute is usb boot capable, which you need to determine, and if you have a good iso image on your flash drive, it should fire right up

sounds like your may have put the ubuntu boot-loader in the wrong place when installing, where did you install it? in a partition or start of the HD?
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first sort out what you have, then have a plan for your next moves, what's on the HD? 1 partition?

lotsa stuff you can do to sort out the above, to know what you have right now, it could be you only have a bootloader scenario to sort out

[ufo8mymunky]

i was doing a system restore on my laptop which is a satellite c655d-s5209 and it froze on me so i had to restart it...so i borrowed a hotel managers laptop and downloaded ubuntu and the pen drive thing to make it bootable on the flash drive....i installed it over windows so it obviously reformatted my hard drive and now i want to keep ubuntu and reinstall windows also...but i want to just keep ubuntu on the fash drive and not install it onto the hard drive...the problem is the iso that i have for windows is not bootable from a flash drive and there are tons of programs to make it bootable from the usb IF i was on windows...so what do i have to do to get it to work from linux....i know that i have to go into the bios and make it boot up from the usb first...i have already done that...i just need to get windows back because...well...lets face it...there are somethings that windows can do better and there are soemthing that linux can do better and I want them both...


and yes right now i have only one partition on my hard drive...

i could burn windows onto a cd but i'd rather have it on a flash drive...cds get scratched, lost broke...etc...it is just more convenient for me to have it on a flash drive...

[ufo8mymunky]

I've never installed Windows from a USB drive.
But as long as it's a standard .iso file, and your computer is set to boot from USB, then you should be able to boot it up.
Have you checked your BIOS options to boot from USB first?

i had a pos hp mini and i had to keep windows on a flash drive because i kept getting mad and breaking my laptop so i would have to buy a new hard drive and reload windows on to it....so i know it works...and i know its do-able...