Linux – Windows 10 ISO on USB stick won’t boot

bootable-mediaiso-imagelinuxusbwindows 10

I've been trying to install Windows 10 on a Thinkpad R60 for two weeks and went through several tutorials on how to create a bootable ISO on Linux/Debian 9. This one finally seemed to work (i.e. without running into any trouble in between):

https://wycd.net/posts/2015-03-10-creating-a-bootable-windows-10-usb-drive-on-linux.html

Unfortunately, the laptop won't boot the ISO. I already set the boot order in BIOS to check for external USB drives first. What am I missing?

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SOLVED: Need to set the drive as bootable

Can be done using Gnome-Disk - in Debian: Applications >> Accessories >> Disks >> Additional partition options >> Edit partition >> Bootable

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ThinkPad_Edge has the process:

Grab and unpack https://gna.org/projects/grub4dos/ (the wiki has an old link)
In the grub4dos directory, sudo ./bootlace.com /dev/sdb
cp grldr /media/USBSTICK
cp menu.lst /media/USBSTICK
cp /path/to/7yuj40uc.iso /media/USBSTICK

Finally you have to add the following code to the menu.lst on your pendrive to make the USB-Stick boot the PC DOS program made by lenovo:

title Thinkpad-BIOS-UPDATE
find --set-root /7yuj40uc.iso
map /7yuj40uc.iso (0xff) || map --mem /7yuj40uc.iso (0xff)
map --hook
chainloader (0xff)
boot

And that's about it.

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