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If you have been trying to create a Windows 10 bootable USB stick on Ubuntu, using the popular WoeUSB tool, chances are you are getting stuck at downloading uefi-ntfs.img from github.  https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/raw/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img Resolving github.com (github.com)... 64:ff9b::8c52:7004, 140.82.114.4 Connecting to github.com (github.com)|64:ff9b::8c52:7004|:443...  This time-out error is due to an IP issue with the way the Wget command is trying to get the uefi-ntfs.img file from Github.  "wget --directory-prefix="${download_directory}" https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/raw/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img"  To fix this, you can just add a -4 after the wget so that wget resolves the GitHub address properly. However, since you can't manually change this command when running the WoeUSB tool ( unless you go into the source file and then make a new version of WoeUSB ), we will have to find another way. Easy Fix - Use the alternate  WoeUSB-ng sof...

If you have been searching online to find a good, working and easy way to create a bootable Windows 10 USB install drive on Ubuntu Linux, chances are, almost all the ones you tried didn't work out. I had to try a lot and finally one worked - i am posting below the one that worked for me. OMGUbuntu has a tutorial "How to Create a Bootable Windows 10 USB on Ubuntu" which used to work, but no longer works properly. We can call this tutorial a modified version of that How to article as we are going to use the same software to create the bootable USB. First Step : Install WoeUSB - it is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501's WinUSB.  I am on Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo 64bit - so i have to i nstall this WoeUSB.deb package.  You can find other WoeUSB.deb files here . Alternately, you can install it using a PPA PPA Method to install WoeUSB sudo add-apt-repository p...