Windows 11 bootable usb not found/ not recognizd as a bootable usb in bios

Fovu · September 14, 2022, 7:02am

Greetings, I was trying to install Windows 11 from ubuntu, and rufus didn’t work, so I used balena etcher, first thing I saw was missing partition table, I don’t know if it might be because of that, but I flashed the iso into an usb and balena etcher told me it was successful, I went to bios and first time it showed up the usb in the boot options, however when i booted in it I got an error telling me that I need to select a bootable usb and try again even tho I did select a bootable usb, after a few tries the usb dissapeared from the boot options, any ideas why? Thanks in advance!

mcraa · September 16, 2022, 12:23pm

Hi,

Sorry you had these obstacles, here you can see our recommendations about writing win11 (i guess you crossed out rufus already).

github.com

balena-io/etcher/blob/master/docs/USER-DOCUMENTATION.md#why-is-my-drive-not-bootable

Etcher User Documentation
=========================

This document contains how-tos and FAQs oriented to Etcher users.

Why is my drive not bootable?
-----------------------------

Etcher copies images to drives byte by byte, without doing any transformation
to the final device, which means images that require special treatment to be
made bootable, like Windows images, will not work out of the box. In these
cases, the general advice is to use software specific to those kind of
images, usually available from the image publishers themselves.

Images known to require special treatment:

- Microsoft Windows (use [Windows USB/DVD Download Tool][windows-usb-tool], 
  [Rufus][rufus], or [WoeUSB][woeusb]).

- Windows 10 IoT (use the [Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard][windows-iot-dashboard])

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We are working on extending etcher to add those extra steps a win11 image needs, but it is not available at the moment.