INSTALL WINDOWS FROM A MEMORY STICK

MEMSTICK PREP

apt install woeusb
#winusb

or manually:

• https://gist.github.com/kuznero/9eb62f6f0612a32d9c4446a4f1f4cf74
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/289559/how-can-i-create-a-windows-bootable-usb-stick-using-ubuntu
• https://kb.iu.edu/d/bciz
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
• https://rufus.ie/en_IE.html
• https://techfleece.com/2015/07/08/how-to-create-a-bootable-windows-usb-drive-using-rufus/

EFI MEMSTICK

• http://woshub.com/how-to-create-uefi-bootable-usb-drive-to-install-windows-7/

USB3

extract the USB3 drivers specific to your platform, e.g. from an HP pac,

rename to .zip and extract with winrar

• https://blaise.ca/blog/2009/06/14/solution-extract-exe-archive-with-7z-in-ubunu-9-04-fix-unsupported-method-error/comment-page-1/

mount the memstick and share those to the windows guest,

sources/boot.wim
sources/install.wim

then proceed,

dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:c:\tmp\boot.wim
dism /mount-wim /wimfile:c:\tmp\boot.wim /index:2 /mountdir:c:\tmp\mount
dism /image:c:\tmp\mount /add-driver:"c:\tmp\usb3" /recurse
dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:c:\tmp\mount /commit

dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:c:\tmp\install.wim
dism /mount-wim /wimfile:c:\tmp\install.wim /index:3 /mountdir:c:\tmp\mount
dism /image:c:\tmp\mount /add-driver:"c:\tmp\usb3" /recurse
dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:c:\tmp\mount /commit

• http://woshub.com/adding-usb-3-0-controller-drivers-to-windows-7-install-media/
• https://codeabitwiser.com/2014/03/how-to-install-windows-7-with-only-usb-3-0-ports/
• https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/how-to-install-windows-7-from-a-usb-3-0-thumb-drive-fast-installation.32302/
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000017241/
• http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.com/2015/09/having-trouble-installing-windows-7-by.html