[mdlug] Convert Windows 10 USB Stick to iso

[Brian Brodsky]

Ron,

I tried this and it did not work.

Brian

On 02/05/2016 11:03 AM, Ron Blanchett wrote:
> 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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> within what you are trying to defend from without." -- President Dwight
> Eisenhower
>
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> character, give him power."
> -- President Abraham Lincoln
>
> 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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