Can I use Ubuntu to write a Windows 7 ISO to USB?

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Published on 2012-03-28T23:24:53Z Indexed on 2014/05/30 9:38 UTC
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I need to create a Windows installation USB drive from an ISO file. I used UNetbootin which seems to be the only tool that can write non-Linux images.

The USB disk boots (sort of), but it gets stuck at the very first stage. A UNetbootin splash screen appears that keeps counting down from 10 to 0, and then restarts.

The screen looks like this:

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Is there a way to make Windows boot from a USB image created on Linux?

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