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I have three computers, a Win7 laptop, a Mac and an Ubuntu box. The Win7 laptop has just died and to try to get it running again I have to run various Win7 apps, like HDScan and Intel's raid manager IAStorUI, but I can't get Windows to load.

How do I create a CD or a USB stick that will boot into a Windows GUI? My rescue disk lets me run command prompt commands, but not any app that needs a GUI.

I have looked at Oracle's virtual box and there seems to be a release called portable-virtualbox but I need Windows to run the install exe.

Are there any other solutions? e.g. iso images I can just burn to disk?

This question had been marked as a duplicate of Windows OS on external hard drive, but for new potential answerers, my situation is different from that question and is not covered by the answers there. To clarify:

  • I need a solution that I can set up using either Mac or Ubuntu, because I do not have a functional Windows OS anymore.

  • Anything like Win2Go or Windows to Disk does not help because I can't run them.

  • GRUB does not provide a solution for creating a bootable Win7 USB stick.

  • Neither does installing VMware on Linux mint.

  • BartPE is no longer available.

fixer1234
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Use dd. Example: dd bs=4M if=imagefile.iso of=/path/to/flashdrive

The bs command speeds up the process by allowing it to use a larger buffer size, if is the input file, aka the image you are reading from, and of is the output file, aka the flash drive. On Linux the flash drive would be something like /dev/sdb or sdc. Make sure you have the correct hardware point and not the system drive, and make sure to dd to the root of the drive, not a partition. For example, using dd will work if of is sdb, but it won't be boot able if you use sdb1.

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