Install Windows 7 from a USB

>>370024
sudo fdisk -l
Remember what drive the Flash drive is (sdX)
sudo umount /dev/sdX
sudo dd if=/home/user/windows.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M && sync

>>370063
Can't boot from the USB for some reason. Tried partitioning the disk as ntfs before using dd and doesn't work either. USB is recognised as a disk but nothing beyond that.

>>370110
Does the laptop have other boot options other than usb? You can also try other gui USB loaders like unetbootin or something similar.

I was having problems with dd and booting. For some reason the one laptop refused to boot from a USB created with dd or even unetbootin. For unetbootin I had to change it to boot from fdisk. For dd I needed to write it do the drive using a different drive letter with dd. You can write to the actual drive or to the partition, I can't remember which worked. But you should be able to see the difference with gparted.

>>370133
Also format it as fat32

>>370133
Yes the laptop has other boot options. But dd worked fine so far I though with windows it wouldn't be hard.

If you're actually instaling 7 I found that I need to sometimes reformat the drive in gparted to ntfs for it to pick up the drive.