anyone know how to make a windows bootible usb with a chromebook

[Ryanwake]

i just bought a chromebook, and i have 2 laptops without hard drives and wanted to fix them before  bought more ssds. 

[Ryanwake]

also there sosent seem to be a way to right click with this trackpad anyone know how to. i can get by with some things like copying with ctrl cv but in used to having some fourm of auto correct

 

[WaggishOhio383]

1 minute ago, Ryanwake said:

also there sosent seem to be a way to right click with this trackpad anyone know how to. i can get by with some things like copying with ctrl cv but in used to having some fourm of auto correct

 

I believe you just click with two fingers, same as a mac

[Ryanwake]

8 minutes ago, WaggishOhio383 said:

I believe you just click with two fingers, same as a mac

thx it works

 

[WhitetailAni]

Double click, yes.

And, as far as I know, no, there is not yet a way to make a bootable USB from a Chromebook.

Because of this:

Chrome OS: Linux + Chrome - Terminal

 

[Ryanwake]

1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Double click, yes.

And, as far as I know, no, there is not yet a way to make a bootable USB from a Chromebook.

Because of this:

Chrome OS: Linux + Chrome - Terminal

 

even with an andriod app

 

[Master Disaster]

If the laptops support UEFI then you can simply format the USB to FAT32, download the ISO, extract its contents and copy paste everything onto the USB.

 

If you need a legacy boot USB then grab the ISO, rename it and change the .iso extension to .bin, open Chrome Recovery Center, click the gear icon then click "Use Local Image", point it to the bin file, select the USB as the destination and it will create the drive for you.

[Ryanwake]

2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

If the laptops support UEFI then you can simply format the USB to FAT32, download the ISO, extract its contents and copy paste everything onto the USB.

 

If you need a legacy boot USB then grab the ISO, rename it and change the .iso extension to .bin, open Chrome Recovery Center, click the gear icon then click "Use Local Image", point it to the bin file, select the USB as the source and it will create the drive for you.

i can format it to fat 32 idk how to check if my laptop supports uefi

 

[Master Disaster]

Just now, Ryanwake said:

i can format it to fat 32 idk how to check if my laptop supports uefi

 

Use the second method, this should support both UEFI & Legacy.

[kelvinhall05]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

If the laptops support UEFI then you can simply format the USB to FAT32, download the ISO, extract its contents and copy paste everything onto the USB.

 

If you need a legacy boot USB then grab the ISO, rename it and change the .iso extension to .bin, open Chrome Recovery Center, click the gear icon then click "Use Local Image", point it to the bin file, select the USB as the destination and it will create the drive for you.

This will not work, Windows is so special that it needs its own proprietary tool to be burned to a USB drive, and that tool will not run on ChromeOS.

[Master Disaster]

13 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

This will not work, Windows is so special that it needs its own proprietary tool to be burned to a USB drive, and that tool will not run on ChromeOS.

Theres nothing special about Windows at all and any software capable of doing byte by byte transfers is capable of writing Windows onto a USB drive. There are 3 tools I can name for Windows alone, you can use DD on Linux & macOS and UEFI booting requires nothing more than an EFI folder containing the boot files on a FAT32 partition.

 

I assure you, both methods I posted work.

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

Theres nothing special about Windows at all and any software capable of doing byte by byte transfers is capable of writing Windows onto a USB drive. There are 3 tools I can name for Windows alone, you can use DD on Linux & macOS and UEFI booting requires nothing more than an EFI folder containing the boot files on a FAT32 partition.

 

I assure you, both methods I posted work.

I've never been able to make a bootable Windows USB using DD, Etcher, or Rufus, and afaik nobody else has without extra work.

[Master Disaster]

19 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I've never been able to make a bootable Windows USB using DD, Etcher, or Rufus, and afaik nobody else has without extra work.

Then you're doing something wrong because its possible in all the tools you listed. Sure it takes a few extra steps but the point is, it can be done. To say Windows is somehow special is demonstrably wrong, its a standard ISO9660 format image with a bootable MBR partition for legacy booting and an EFI folder for UEFI booting. Its literally how any modern bootable OS disc works (the only exception to this might be macOS but I'm not familiar enough with it or macs in general to know if that's true or not).

 

RUFUS can write any ISO to a USB, it doesn't care what it is, as long as you select the correct boot options it will write it (it will write it regardless, if the correct settings are not given the result might not boot)..

With Etcher you simply rename the image and change the .iso extension to .bin.

With DD again you have to tell it the correct boot options.

[BigRom]

2 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I've never been able to make a bootable Windows USB using DD, Etcher, or Rufus, and afaik nobody else has without extra work.

Just select the correct ISO file and a couple of checkboxes, then let it be for about 10minutes and I have a bootable USB ready to go.

 

I don't know how much more simpler could Rufus possibly get

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Operating Systems

[Ryanwake]

On 11/3/2020 at 8:21 PM, BigRom said:

Just select the correct ISO file and a couple of checkboxes, then let it be for about 10minutes and I have a bootable USB ready to go.

 

I don't know how much more simpler could Rufus possibly get

my internet is shitty and the download keeps crashing u think a torrent would be better