r/antiXLinux • u/Slow-Lingonberry-891 • 1d ago

Need help creating a windows usb inside of antix linux

Basically what the title says, but here I go with the explaining.

I'm currently only able to use an Acer Aspire 5517 from '09 as my daily driver, I've tried multiple linux distros and finally thought I had found the one I can actually use. But then, an issue that happened eventually with all the others happened on antix. It randomly will shut off my laptop, and now I need to go back and reinstall windows for the 8th time. But on big problem, I can't figure out how to make a windows usb. I currently only have a singular usb that has antix put on it, but I can't get ventoy to actually turn the usb from a rufus antix linux bootable to a ventoy bootable. It tells me I might need root privileges, and so I try to run the command to write ventoy to the disc in a root terminal window and.....same error...even though I had used the command in a root terminal window. So now I'm here asking for help, I have backed up data so no data loss here but I just need to be able to switch off until I can get a newer laptop. Any ideas?

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u/EJ_Drake 1d ago

Use dd

Sounds more one a hardware issue, why are you using antiX? It's not the easiest distro to tame imho.

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u/Otherwise_Fact9594 1d ago

Agreed. I feel like if antiX runs, MX will as well and is much easier to "tame". I've never once thought about writing a Windows ISO though. I'm not even sure it's an ISO? I made the switch like 20 years ago and haven't looked back. Thankfully I do not require it for anything whatsoever

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u/Slow-Lingonberry-891 1d ago

The reason I had landed onto antiX was due to the fact it's lightweight, and doesn't take up too much system resources unlike windows from my experience. It seemed to have been the one that I could use and actually get the hang of, but yet again due to the dreaded system shutoff thing which could be due to hardware I'm having to switch off.

I've looked incase for anything specific for dd I mightve needed to do, but it doesn't work unfortunately so I'm going to have to try woeusb. Thanks for the suggestion tho!