Using Windows command line, to locate only the files you want.

Boot up into a Live Linux Image. Mount your old Linux Install, and use chroot to take control of it. mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt chroot /mnt You will get grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). if you don’t mount you devices, before attempting to install GRUB. So mount all devices. mount [...]

Using GParted, or another tool, format the USB to NTFS and make the partition bootable. As root, mount your Windows ISO. mount /home/osaka/en_windows_7.iso /mnt -o loop Then copy the contents to the USB. cp -rv /mnt/* /media/USB sync # Flush file system buffers Install the Windows boot loader to the USB. ms-sys -7 /dev/sdX You [...]

To get synergy working, both the client and the server need to have a /etc/synergy.conf file, like the one below. make sure to replace “server” and “client” with their respective hostnames: section: screens server: client: end section: aliases server: 10.0.0.2 end section: aliases client: 10.0.0.50 end section: links server: left = client client: right = [...]

Add a new Windows system variable with a variable name of “CYGWIN” and variable value of “nodosfilewarning”. That should disable the very annoying error, or you could fix it by using correct UNIX pathnames.