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Adding USB 3.0 Drivers to a Windows 7 Installation ISO File
Copy install.wim and boot.wim from the sources directory in the iso to a temporary place accessible from a Windows machine, as you will need to use DISM, a built-in command-line tool in Windows. From inside Windows, create a directory called mount in the same location as the .wim files. Create a folder called USB3 in…
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Installing Windows to external drive from Windows
This has been tested to work with Windows 10. Insert or mount Windows installation disc/iso. Note the drive letter. For the sake of this post, I’m using D: as the iso mount point, and E: as the usb drive letter. From an administrator-level command prompt or powershell, use diskpart to prepare the external drive (replacing…
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Accessing Windows Shares from Linux
Once in a while, you may want to access or mount a Windows shared folder from Linux. Doing do is actually quite simple. First, create a directory where the share will be mounted. This should be an empty directory. I think it’s best to put it under /mnt. You can call it whatever you want.…