Ok first off, Im a newb, I’ve only used linux for a few weeks and was trying to learn it, long story short I no longer have windows installed, and now I want it back. I have already formatted a usb and have a copy of windows 10 on it. Now my problem is that none of the tutorials have shown what to do after that, I have no idea, I went into boot options and didn’t see my usb listed and I can’t mount my usb in file manager, sorry if this is cringey, I just need some help and am aware im an idiot.
As a one time only favor - booting windows and installing windows is completely unrelated to Manjaro.
The only known way to create a Windows USB on Linux is to use woeUSB to create a bootable Windows stick.
Build woeusb using AUR script.
pamac build woeusb
Download the ISO assuming you save it in your downloads folder
Open a terminal and cd into your downloads folder (assuming it is named Downloads)
$ cd ~/Downloads
Then list your block devices
$ lsblk
Insert your usb device and list the devices once again
$ lsblk
Locate the new device - /dev/sdy
Write the ISO to usb
$ sudo woeusb --device Win10-bla-bla.iso /dev/sdy
Wait - done - reboot
Use what ever key combo to enter your firmware and locate the device boot order - make sure you can boot usb and set it as first device - save firmware settings - reboot - now booting windows installer.
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