I'm about to install Windows on a partition. And since Rufus is not available, I'm considering either using WoeUSB or the inbuilt tool Startup Disk Creator. I would prefer to use whatever comes with linux itself. But I'm reading here https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/addremove-creator.html.en that "In this context a startup disk is a USB flash drive from which you can startup and install Ubuntu(...) It's assumed that you have downloaded an Ubuntu ISO image." So, can I use it to install Windows regardless or should I just use WoeUSB?
I don't want to use Rufus.
Edit 1: I think I found my answer. I will try dd as described here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/372607/how-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive-from-terminal
Edit 2: It turns out I can't simply access USB drive in Bash on Windows. Looking for solutions.
Edit 3: Going to try this: https://www.scivision.dev/mount-usb-drives-windows-subsystem-for-linux/
mkdir /mnt/f
mount -t drvfs f: /mnt/fI've made many bootable usb disks of linux distros using Startup Disk Creator, but now I need to load a very lightweight distro for a notebook laptop. Linux Lite won't load and I suspect it's because the laptop doesn't quite meet the minimum requirements so I'm trying to load Puppy Linux to my USB. The file is easily downloaded and easily located on my personal laptop, but when I try to load it into Startup Disk Creator it can't find it. I've tried keeping it in my downloads folder and on the desktop. Is this a common problem?
I'm on kubuntu 16.04
I was about to create a bootable usb stick with 18.04. Had the usb in (also had my backup drive in). I started usb-creator-kde, after a short while a popup window appears saying "installing" with a progress bar apparently stuck at zero. Nothing else just "installing", no indication which program spawned the window, no indication what is being installing or where. I cancel after a while and the usb-creator application disappears as well - so they're related.
I start it again same thing happens - no chance for me to do anything - like choosing image, target disk.
Then suddenly my backup disk starts spinning wildly and I'm getting worried - I pull it out and now it has kubuntu 18.04 on it (or at least some of it). So it looks like usb-creator all by itself found the image it liked and and put that image on a random drive.
EDIT:
Installed the gtk version and removed the kde version
Totally different experience: It nicely asks me and I have to actually click ok for anything to happen.
I'm really curious what the thinking behind making this process automatic is. And no, I'm absolutely not happy about it.
btw. Anyone has some good advice how to get my data back?
Hi all,
After much fighting I've rolled back to Xubuntu 16.04
I have it set up pretty much exactly as I'd like it now, and I'd like to create a disk image so that I can at least immediately reinstall to this point but ideally so that I could build other machines to this exact setup.
Bonus points if I can also plug the 16gb USB that I have into another machine and use the "try Xubuntu" option to run my unique set up without installing.
Is this possible?
As you probably know, Startup Disk Creator has been rewritten. Is the new version better than the one from older Ubuntu versions?
I just tried to copy a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS file onto a USB flash drive using Startup Disk Creator... and now my computer can't even seem to recognize that I have a USB flash drive. Any idea what I should do from here?
I downloaded the lastest Tails ISO (1.1.2) a few days ago, burned it, used it, and just decided to check the integrity. As the title says, there's 5 MB additional data on that ISO compared to a freshly download copy who's checksum matches.
Should I be concerned, or is the ISO I burned inflated due to the burning process? How can I figure out what that extra 5 MB is?
The idea of the startup disk creator is nice - its a very handy tool, but sadly it doesn't work good enought (it's buggy since years). Now for the next LTS would be a good moment to update / rewrite the startup disk creator and make it the awesome tool it could be.
Are there any plans to improve the current situation?
I will preface that I don't know a lot about PCs. And I am also a little stoned right now, but this is a problem I've been trying to solve for weeks, and I think I'm good to ask.
I have a PC with Windows 10, and every time I boot it up, I open task manager to find that disk space is at 100% usage. I've implemented dozens of recommendations I find online (within reason, naturally-- I'm tech literate enough to not download everything that sticks out at me or delete system 32 or something) and every time, while they fix things in the small term, it's always back on the next session. I've disabled every automatic "launch at boot-up" process that I don't need, I run disk cleaner three times per boot, I've cleared out temporary files, it feels like I've tried everything. Any short-term solution seems to be an ice pack on an infected wound-- it'll make things feel better, but you still have something broken.
What underlying factor could be causing this? I'm sick of needing to troubleshoot for twenty minutes before I can even use my computer, and it's clearly not fixing anything. I'm worried that I'll try so many quick fixes that I'll slip and do something catastrophic to my pc.
So, is there a universal tool for booting ISOs from a USB stick? I would think something like dd would be the best but it doesn't always work.
Are there any best practices for prepping a USB stick for dd? Filesystem/flags/etc?
Thanks, Matt
My Disk II stopped working, not wanting to listen to the computer. The access light never comes on. I know the chips aren’t bad because I hadn’t changed anything when it stopped working. I also cleaned the head and nothing changed. What could it be? I’d like to get it working soon because I ordered a game an hour before it broke.
I've been using 9.04 for my netbook and plan to upgrade to 10.10 because 9.04 is no longer being supported. I intend to back everything up and do a clean installation.
So I went to the Ubuntu website and at step 2 I selected Ubuntu and clicked "Show me how." Well, my setup doesn't look like that. I found my way to my Administration panel and I don't see Startup Disk Creator. Anywhere. I poked around a little bit, did a search, but nothing.
Is it hidden somewhere, or am I going to have to create the USB installation on a different machine?
Hi.
I'm trying to create a liveusb using Ubuntu that have the boot menu (Try ubuntu without install, check disk defect, test memory, etc...)
When i create a bootable usb using the startup disk creator and boot the computer using it, it skips the menu and goes straight to a gui where i can choose to try or install Ubuntu.
Is there a way to see the boot menu?
Thanks.
MacBook5,1
I did a fresh install of the Catalina Patcher on a new SSD. I had some small issues with it, so I decided to give Mojave Patcher a try. I created a new volume on the SSD for Mojave and installed it. Everything installed fine.
I tried to change the startup disk back to Catalina, but it never "sticks". The machine always reboots into Mojave. IIRC, I had a kernel panic after Software Update ran, but I booted off the Mojave Patcher USB stick I made and reapplied the patches.
Is this known? I haven't read of anyone else having this issue, but maybe other people aren't trying?
My guess right now is the custom EFI bootloader script is designed to only boot into Mojave. If thats the case, and the Catalina one supports switching, I'll reinstall that. If this isn't supported, I guess I'll just have to decide which OS i want on this drive.
First time deploying Bitlocker and first time deploying anything via Intune.
Here are my settings: Part 1 Part 2
I deployed to 5 newer Lenovo laptops (4 TPM 2.0 and 1 TPM 1.2) All devices encrypt both the OS drive and D: drives fine, keys are shown in AAD etc.
Looking at the policy under the device > device configuration in AAD all parts come out with a green checkmark except Startup authentication which reports an error with a pointless generic error code: https://i.imgur.com/JYKYm9I.png
Logs under Bitlocker-API in EventViewer report only an informational message:
The following DMA (Direct Memory Access) capable devices are not declared as protected from external access, which can block security features such as BitLocker automatic device encryption:
ISA Bridge: PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_790E (PCI standard ISA bridge)
PCI-to-PCI Bridge: PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_15DB (PCI Express Root Port x5
Is this informational message what is causing the error message in Intune or do i need to look elsewhere?
iMac 27-Inch "Core i5" 3.2 (5K, Late 2015) with Monterey
I reformatted a Samsung T5 1TB to APFS
I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the HDD to my SSD
The drive is recognized and showing on the desktop, I have the ability to read and write to it, and it is showing in Disk Utility
When turning on the computer and holding down the Option key to get to Startup Manager, only the internal HDD is listed. I waited a few minutes but the external SSD still does not show up
When accessing Startup Disk in System Preferences, the SSD is not listed. Only the internal HDD
I booted in Recovery mode and accessed Startup Security Utility in an attempt to change the External Boot (or "Allowed Boot Media") setting to allow booting from external media, but I don't even see this option. All I see is this. Despite the description, I tried turning on the firmware password in hopes that it would allow me to change the External Boot setting, but after restart the option is still not even showing.
WTF??? It shouldn't be this hard to do. What else can I do????? From online research there doesn't seem to be one answer. Should I try resetting the PRAM and NVRAM?
Worth noting: I also installed new RAM during all of this. That should have nothing to do with the external SSD though... I verified the RAM's compatibility: OWC 16GB (2 x 8GB) 1867 MHZ DDR3 SO-DIMM PC3-14900 204 Pin CL11
So my windows support software wasn't working right on Windows 10 bootcamp with my Macbook Air 2015 and I figured a reinstallation of the windows support software would do the trick. I went ahead and booted up MacOS , went to Bootcamp assistant, then went to "action" --> "download windows support software " and setup a usb with the proper software to use on my windows partition. Afterwards, I shut down the Macbook and booted it back up to the disk selection menu only to be greeted with the Mac OS partition, no C drive for windows anymore. And when I boot into Mac OS and check the partitions, there's only one partition for Mac OS. It's like Windows just got deleted off my hard drive with no consent or action for me whatsoever. Anyone know what happened here?
Hiya,
So, I got Hackintosh with macOS Monterey 12.1, and I decided to encrypt both of my drives, that I'm using under the Apple system.
For some reason, at the every boot, I get "Disk is not readable" monit, probably because the Mac computers in general have one disk, and secondary disks are almost always the one you externally attach - and maybe Apple developers never though about that (not sure about Macs Pro in general).
I want to just get rid of it, any ideas?
