Ubuntu – Can’t install WinUSB on Ubuntu 15.10

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I recently installed Ubuntu 15.10 on my old computer. I'm now trying to create a windows usb stick to install on a new computer I'm building. When I add the repository

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colingille/freshlight

and I try to update, I get the following errors:

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/wily/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found                         

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/wily/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

    E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Then when I try:

   sudo apt-get install winusb

I get:

   E: Unable to locate package winusb

Can anyone help me find a solution?

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To install in Ubuntu (16.04, 15.10, 15.04 and 14.04) or Linux Mint (17.x or 18) and derivatives. To add the PPA and install WinUSB, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt update

apt install winusb

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The problem here is with the method used to install GRUB. It has nothing to do with the current filesystem on thumbdrive as WinUSB formats it.

To fix it you must edit the winusb script which is located in /usr/bin. Open it with any text editor with root permissions (e.g. gksu gedit /usr/bin/winusb). Now search for grub-install in that file (it may be on line 401 - 402) and change that line so it looks like this:

grub-install --target=i386-pc --boot-directory="$partitionMountPath/boot" "$device"

Save the script. Install the package grub-pc-bin as follows:

sudo apt-get install grub-pc-bin

Now, try again to use WinUSB.

WinUSB only creates MBR bootable USB drives. If you want to install Windows in EFI mode a different method should be used.

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For anyone having trouble with this, I found a simple solution which works if you are sure that the USB stick is properly formatted to NTFS and is mounted.

Start by finding the name of the mounted disk by running sudo fdisk -l. Once you find it (it'll be something like /dev/sdc1), run the command based winusb command:

sudo winusb --install <iso path> <partition>

And with that, it should work.

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