Windows 8 ISO image to USB stick

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I want to make a bootable USB stick from a Windows8 CTP DVD.
(so that I don't have to waste a DVD).

On Ubuntu (Linux) there is a program that does that automatically for oneself,
but I think it only works for Linux images (not sure, I didn't try).

For Windows, is this still the quickest way to go? As advised in Bootable ISO to USB stick xp quickest method

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Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool - from Microsoft & free.

If you choose to download an ISO file (so that you can create a bootable file from a DVD or USB flash drive), copy your Windows 7 ISO file onto your media and, run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. After you do this, you can install Windows 7 onto your computer directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.

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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.

Unable to Make Bootable USB Stick from ISO

It would seem that bootsect was failing because the device was already bootable.

This morning I decided to try using it to boot with the Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installer image loaded on it, despite the failure, just to see what would happen. Surprise-surprise, it worked. -_-

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