I tried many tools including UNetBootin and multibootusb, but nothing seemed to work. There may be, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find it. Good lead, but not quite enough.Īt this point I decided that there must be a tool compatible with Linux out there that can attach this Windows ISO for me. There was a glimmer of hope at one point when I formatted the partition using the ExFat file system, but my hopes were dashed by a blinking cursor. So I tried every combination of formatting that the system would allow. 'It must be formatted incorrectly!', I thought. So I formatted the drive, GPT and NTFS, copied the files, booted up the ThinkPad and.still, no dice. I know, lazy), and then copy the files over manually from the mounted ISO file. Next up, I decided to do all of the formatting and partition creation myself (still through the GUI. 'There's always another method or tool out there that can get the job done!', I thought, and I was determined to do it using Linux. I've been down this road many times before with various Windows and Linux distros, so I wasn't deterred. I plugged the USB drive into my ThinkPad, fired it up, and.no dice. After about 20 minutes it was done and I was good to go. I popped my off-brand 30 GB thumb drive into my Desktop, opened up my GUI disk utility (lazy, I know), selected the thumb drive, clicked the option to restore to a disk image, selected the Windows ISO I previously spent an hour downloading, and kicked off the process. I thought that this would be the hardest part, but unfortunately my suffering had just begun. Therefore, with great trepidation, I decided to sacrifice my ThinkPad T440 for the greater good. I currently work as a contractor for the Department of State, so as anyone who's worked for the government knows, virtually everything you do involves Windows in some way. I've used many different Debian based distros over the years, and not long ago I installed Pop!_OS (created by System76 for their Linux machines) on my desktop computer(Unfortunately not a System76).

I'm pretty new here, so you probably don't know that I'm a big fan of Linux. Recently I decided that it was time to bite the bullet and start using Windows 10 on at least one of my main computers.

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