Not run the liloconfig step on your local box if e.g. Or alternatively, make sure lilo is installed (but do Install ms-sys - if it is not in your repositories, get it But this method seemed to preserve the partition information on the USB drive in such a manner that Windows was able to read it. I had ignored this until now, since I didn't think I needed a bootable USB drive. Followed the instructions here on ServerFault for creating a bootable windows USB drive in Linux I've tried formatting the USB stick on both Linux (with gparted) and on Windows, both with no luck.Īm I using dd wrong? Is there something else I should use? At this point I can just download office onto that machine, but I'd like to figure this out for another time I've tried the above with the ISO on both my Linux machine's HDD, and ripping straight from the CD. The Windows Machine can read it at this point I start with the usb drive formatted to NTFS.

My problem is this: I use dd to write the ISO to the USB drive, and it looks like it took a good copy, but when I try to use it on the windows machine, I get a report that the USB stick's 'Disk structure is corrupted and unreadable'. I figured I could use another machine running Xubuntu 14.04 to make an ISO of the disk, write that ISO to a USB stick, and then install that on the first machine I have a Win7/64 laptop without a DVD drive, and a copy of Office on a DVD I'd like to install.

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