woeusb installation failed can anyone help me?

bak3

3/14/23, 7:06 PM

I am new ubuntu my local hard drive was shown corrupted so i want to reboot to windows and fix it ,but when i am trying copy the file to usb it says installation failed and something i didn't understand.

Here is the error:

Installation failed!
Exit code: 256

And here is the log:

WoeUSB v3.3.1
==============================
Mounting source filesystem...
Wiping all existing partition table and filesystem signatures in /dev/sdb...
/dev/sdb: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (dos): 55 aa
/dev/sdb: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success
Ensure that /dev/sdb is really wiped...
Creating new partition table on /dev/sdb...
Creating target partition...
Making system realize that partition table has changed...
Wait 3 seconds for block device nodes to populate...
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.
--2021-11-15 00:31:18--  https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/raw/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img
Resolving github.com (github.com)... pulse
13.234.176.102
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.176.102|:443... pulse
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... pulse
302 Found
Location: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbatard/rufus/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img [following]
--2021-11-15 00:31:19--  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbatard/rufus/master/res/uefi/uefi-ntfs.img
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... pulse
185.199.111.133, 185.199.110.133, 185.199.109.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.111.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... pulse
200 OK
Length: 1048576 (1.0M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/WoeUSB.3EvlPr.tempdir/uefi-ntfs.img’
     0K .......... ........pulse
.. .......... .......... ..........  4% 1.08M 1s
    50K .......... ...pulse
....... .......... .......... ..........  9%  975K 1s
   100K .......... .......... .......pulse

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partitioning

boot

woeusb

20.04

Nmath

3/14/23, 7:10 PM

There is not enough information here to help you. A data dump is not a question and doesn't provide enough details or context to understand what you are trying to do and the exact problem that you are facing. Edit your question and include more context. Please [format your post](https://askubuntu.com/editing-help#code) so we can actually parse the information and distinguish it from the surrounding text. Large chunks of data from your terminal should use code fences.

sudodus

3/14/23, 8:42 PM

1. There are good Linux tools to analyze and repair a file system in Ubuntu. See for example [this link](https://askubuntu.com/questions/972978/fsck-reports-that-filesystem-still-has-errors/972983#972983); 2. Try woeusb according to [this link](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1097560/woeusb-error-code-256-with-ntfs-formatted-usb/1098185#1098185) or mkusb according to [this link](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb).

C.S.Cameron

3/15/23, 2:09 AM

I have never managed to get WoeUSB to work. Mkusb works every time for me. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb#New_method_works_with_current_versions_of_Windows

karel

3/15/23, 6:52 AM

Does this answer your question? [WoeUSB Error Code 256 with NTFS formatted USB](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1097560/woeusb-error-code-256-with-ntfs-formatted-usb)