how to create a Windows 11 boot USB

On Windows, the easiest way to create a bootable Windows installation on a USB drive would be via Rufus. On Linux, the manual way is described at

https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/how-to-create-a-bootable-windows-11-usb-on-linux/

either woeusb via python or manually with gparted creation of two partitions.

Method 1. sudo apt install git p7zip-full python3-pip python3-wxgtk4.0

sudo pip3 install WoeUSB-ng

Method 2. (a) Using GParted, repartition the USB drive as GPT from the menu - Device - Create Partition Table - GPT

(b) create two partitions - the first one FAT32, 128 MB or so labelled as BOOT (all caps), the next one NTFS with the rest of the space.

(c) mount the Win11 iso, copy over the files to the NTFS partition. 

(d) copy the files from all the folders except the sources folder to the BOOT partition, and the sources folder to the NTFS partition - according to https://www.elevenforum.com/t/create-windows-11-bootable-usb-installation-media.750/. 

 

(In a Rufus created USB Windows-to-go, only the BOOT and EFI folders as well as the files in the root folder are seen inside the BOOT partition. So, maybe it would be a good idea to copy all the files to both partitions - except the sources folder, which is too big, and can only be copied to the NTFS partition.)