How to create MBR bootable Windows USB installer from Linux?

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In a Windows machine I have used Rufus for creating a USB installer for Windows. How can I do the same from Linux?

I want to create a Windows USB installer (for Linux UNetbootin and many more tools work fine). For UEFI boot, simple copy pasting in FAT partition works. But I could not find solution for creating MBR bootable Windows USB.

Piyush

Posted 2016-07-10T06:39:20.660

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There's essentially a duplicate question on ServerFault, which should help you out. The whole process is pretty much the same since Windows 7: http://serverfault.com/questions/6714/how-to-make-windows-7-usb-flash-install-media-from-linux Also did you try whether you're not just missing the active/bootable flag for your partition?

– Mario – 2016-07-10T07:11:36.887

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Piyush

Posted 2016-07-10T06:39:20.660

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For the record, ms-sys is actually what Rufus uses behind the scenes to install the boot records, so, yeah, you should be able to achieve the same with ms-sys on Linux... – Akeo – 2016-07-15T17:35:39.180

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