PROBLEM: ALL MY WINDOWS IMAGES ARE ON MY LINUX WORKSTATION AND I NEED TO BOOT WINDOWS OFF A USB DRIVE.
Historically, I've used Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool on a Windows guest OS in VirtualBox to get this done. Well after doing the research and several stick formats later: I've pieced together a better recipe.
Some other solutions/tutorials have some shortcomings. WinUSB is too complicated and doesn't work with certain versions of GRUB. This post comes very close but assumes the drive has a Windows 7 bootloader already.
Give the USB device one primary partition. This is what I did, other partitioning schemes may work. I'm using fdisk
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