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I am running Ubuntu, but I need to boot from Windows PE so that I can install a firmware update (only available as a Win32 exe).

I tried following steps from this Web Upd8 guide but the resulting USB is not bootable:

  1. sudo apt install wimtools (required for mkwinpeimg, below)

  2. Download Microsoft WAIK ISO

  3. sudo mount KB3AIK_EN.iso $HOME/waik

  4. mkwinpeimg --iso --waik-dir=$HOME/waik winpe.iso --overlay=/path/to/exe/folder

  5. Write winpe.iso to USB drive with balenaEtcher (also tried mkusb)

How can I copy the ISO to the USB drive and make it bootable?

lofidevops
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  • might be relevant? https://www.onetransistor.eu/2014/09/make-bootable-windows-usb-from-ubuntu.html – lofidevops Jul 15 '22 at 14:01
  • HP UEFI update - extract .bin from .exe file and copy into FAT32 partition. https://askubuntu.com/questions/539120/how-to-perform-a-hp-bios-upgrade-with-only-ubuntu/1234098#1234098 & https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/How-to-update-BIOS-on-Linux/m-p/5441775#M1205498 – oldfred Jul 15 '22 at 21:52

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