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选题[tech]: 20210217 Use this bootable USB drive on Linux to rescue Windows users
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[#]: subject: (Use this bootable USB drive on Linux to rescue Windows users)
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[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/21/2/linux-woeusb)
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[#]: author: (Don Watkins https://opensource.com/users/don-watkins)
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Use this bootable USB drive on Linux to rescue Windows users
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WoeUSB makes Windows boot disks from Linux and help your friends unlock
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their out-of-commission machines.
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![Puzzle pieces coming together to form a computer screen][1]
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People regularly ask me to help them rescue Windows computers that have become locked or damaged. Sometimes, I can use a Linux USB boot drive to mount Windows partitions and then transfer and back up files from the damaged systems.
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Other times, clients lose their passwords or otherwise lock their login account credentials. One way to unlock an account is to create a Windows boot disk to repair the computer. Microsoft allows you to download copies of Windows from its website and offers tools to create a USB boot device. But to use them, you need a Windows computer, which means, as a Linux user, I need another way to create a boot DVD or USB drive. I have found it difficult to create Windows USBs on Linux. My reliable tools, like [Etcher.io][2], [Popsicle][3] (for Pop!_OS), and [UNetbootin][4], or using `dd` from the command line to create bootable media, have not been very successful.
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That is until I discovered [WoeUSB-ng][5], a [GPL 3.0][6] Linux tool that creates a bootable USB drive for Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10. The open source software has two programs: a command-line utility and a graphical user interface (GUI) version.
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### Install WoeUSB-ng
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The GitHub repository contains instructions for [installing][7] WoeUSB-ng on Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora, or with pip3.
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If you're on a supported Linux operating system, you can install WoeUSB-ng using your package manager. Alternatively, you can use Python's package manager, [pip][8], to install the application. This is universal across any Linux distribution. There's no functional difference between these methods, so use whichever's familiar to you.
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I'm running Pop!_OS, which is an Ubuntu derivative, but being comfortable with Python, I chose the pip3 install:
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```
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`$ sudo pip3 install WoeUSB-ng`
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```
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### Create a boot disk
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You can use WoeUSB-ng from the command line or the GUI version.
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To create a boot disk from the command line, the syntax requires the command, a path to your Windows ISO file (`/dev/sdX` in this example; use the `lsblk` command to determine your drive), and a device:
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`$ sudo woeusb --device Windows.iso /dev/sdX`
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```
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You can also launch the program for an easy-to-use interface. In the WoeUSB-ng application window, find the Windows.iso file and select it. Choose your USB target device—the drive you want to make into a Windows boot drive. This will ERASE all information on this drive, so choose carefully—and then double-check (and triple-check) your choice!
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Once you're sure you have the right destination drive selected, click the **Install** button.
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![WoeUSB-ng UI][9]
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(Don Watkins, [CC BY-SA 4.0][10])
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Creating media takes five to 10 minutes, depending on your Linux computer's processor, memory, USB port speed, etc. Be patient.
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Once the process is finished and verified, you have a functional Windows USB boot device to help someone repair their Windows computer.
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### Help others
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Open source is all about helping other people. Very often, you can help Windows users by using the Linux-based [System Rescue CD][11]. But sometimes, the only way to help is directly from Windows, and WoeUSB-ng is a great open source tool to make that possible.
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via: https://opensource.com/article/21/2/linux-woeusb
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作者：[Don Watkins][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://opensource.com/users/don-watkins
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/puzzle_computer_solve_fix_tool.png?itok=U0pH1uwj (Puzzle pieces coming together to form a computer screen)
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[2]: https://etcher.io/
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[3]: https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle
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[4]: https://github.com/unetbootin/unetbootin
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[5]: https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng
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[6]: https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng/blob/master/COPYING
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[7]: https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng#installation
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[8]: https://opensource.com/downloads/pip-cheat-sheet
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[9]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/woeusb-ng-gui.png (WoeUSB-ng UI)
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[10]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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[11]: https://www.system-rescue.org/
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