[mdlug] Convert Windows 10 USB Stick to iso

[Ron Blanchett]

VirtualBox will boot from USB even though it does not have a boot option
for it.
You have to attach the USB drive to the VM and VBox will see it as a normal
drive and allow you to boot.

-Ron

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Brian Brodsky <brianbrodsky at ameritech.net>
wrote:

> I am feeling like a total newb. I bought Windows 10 that I want to run
> in VirtualBox as a guest on a Linux host. When you buy Windows 10 you
> get a bootable USB stick. VirtualBox does not have an option to boot
> from USB. I did see hacks, but I figured made more sense to create an
> iso and boot from that. I was able to do this using k3b gui program (I'm
> a kde user), but my first attempt using cli dd failed. The command I
> used (at root prompt) was dd if=/dev/sdc of=./windows10.iso. USB was not
> mounted and lsblk showed this was device I wanted. It did create a 15G
> iso file but VirtualBox said it was not bootable. I did create a
> bootable iso using k3b which is only 6.8G. Size difference is
> understandable since dd is an image copy and k3b is a file copy. Can
> somebody tell me how I could have created a bootable iso from the cli?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Brian
>
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