How do you use the media creation tool to burn a win 10 dvd if it dowloaded the iso file but then you closed it before it could burn the DVD. Do you have to download the iso all over again?
I tried to create installation media for another PC for both 32 and 64 bit, Win 10 Pro, ISO file format (on a partition other than windows partition). My download was complete, it was verified, but when it started creating windows 10 media suddenly my windows partition started to fill up and my windows partition was completely used.
All of a sudden the media creation tool and my windows partition is left with a very small amount of free space. Can you help me to resume the media creation.
Note: Initially my windows partition was not having 8 GB free space. It was approx 5 GB, but after this download its 1.83 GB only. Also No traces of ISO file on the location I specified.
You should make space on your partition. Otherwise, it will not work. You see, the ISO file isn’t just downloaded. You actually get the install files which are then packed into the ISO. So, you need to have more free space than the actual ISO you create.
You should uninstall large programs, delete unneeded files or even use Disk Management to resize your partition.
Michael Looper
8 years ago
Very helpful article!
One additional thing I found out the hard way with creating an install for multiple PCs:
If your connection is interrupted in the middle of the download, you have to start over from the beginning.
Ouch – especially if you have a slow connection.
Imagine getting 95% of a 3.5Gb download done and then having to start over.
Come on Microsoft, recoverable downloads are not that hard to manage.
Loni
8 years ago
Where do I get the product key if I download Windows 10 onto a DVD?
Korieee
8 years ago
I got error when i want to create usb tool
Something Happend
0x800704DD – 0x90016
HELP PLS
John H. Mountcastle
8 years ago
What if I’ve already upgraded a machine ? The upgrade files appear to remain in C:$Windows.~BT. Can I create a bootable upgrade USB from these and save the expensive download.
Vampy
8 years ago
I would like a clear guide on how to burn this to a DVD not a flash drive. I have been searching for days and can’t find one. I’ve download Windows 10 twice and saved the folder to my desktop which is always empty! Found two folders on my hard drive named $WINDOWS.~BT and $Windows.~WS. I assume windows is overriding my folder and put the files in there. So now how do I burn this ?!?
solomon
8 years ago
good day pls i tried to upgrade my pc.
after download complete and verify, then creating window 10 media my pc off itself. pls can i continue from the installation from where it stop since the $windows folder is already 2.4 gb pls help
Vinay
8 years ago
I had downloaded MediaCreationToolx64.exe and choose my media as USB Flash Drive it started downloading, after downloading 3 GB of Data noting happens my USB drive is blank,, where to find my Windows 10 setup file which was downloaded. Do I need to download again .. Please Help
Robert
7 years ago
Followed the instructions, but after choosing USB to install to, the next window showed something like ‘choose drive to save deleted files from the USB drive’ with no option to ‘ignore’. My USB drive was clean and formatted anyway, but I chose E:drive thinking that nothing would be transferred (i.e. saved), but the Media Creator failed after over 50% done, saying something like ‘Can’t create the installation on this computer’, and my whole E: drive was wiped out.
I used Media Creator to go from 8.1 to 10, and this didn’t happen.
BTW, for anyone updating Win 10, don’t forget to configure Restore and create a Restore point for all your drives right after the update is complete, because the update deletes all your old restore points! I remembered last time, but forgot to do it right away this time.
tazmo8448
6 years ago
Still don’t understand why when downloading something from M$ that is so dog gone slow…they have to have the worst speeds on the internet period.
Bullets
6 years ago
I just want to verify that this will not wipe clean my computer that I am trying to fix.
Thanks
I did as suggested on using the USB to create Win 10 installation disk but my machine will not recognize the usb. ???
John Marshall
5 years ago
After I chose “Create installation media”- or whatever the phrase for using a flash drive, it doesn’t give me the options shown here for choosing a drive, language, etc. It goes to directly downloading the files. Advice or suggestions?
shreyas
5 years ago
I have installed windows 10 pro version 1803(i.e. not genuine) which is not activating as I have licence for windows 10 home single language edition . so, i ran troubleshooter and the troubleshooter told me that i have digital code for windows 10 home single language. can I downgrade windows 10 pro to my previous genuine windows 10 home single language edition?
Mig
4 years ago
What’s up…. So what if you don’t have enough memory on computer 1 and you are creating an installation media tool for computer 2. Computer 2’s OS vanished for some reason and I’m trying to reboot/reinstall it. Please advise. NOTE: WHEN ATTEMPTING TO DOWNLOAD COMPUTER 1 STATES NEED 8 GB OF MEMORY TO COMPLETE. That’s my error
Carol Feld
4 years ago
I was told there was a problem in using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. I received the following error message. Can you pls. tell me what’s wrong?
Error Code Ox80042405 – OxA001B
Thanks.
Waiz
4 years ago
I am trying to install windows 10 in my laptop but it gives the error that we couldn’t find any drivers, click load driver, and when I click it says TO INSTALL DEVICE DRIVER FOR YOUR DRIVE INSERT THE INSTALLATION MEDIA CONTAINING THE DRIVER FILES AND THEN CLICK OK
what to do please help
Deepanjan Das
3 years ago
I don’t know why I am not able to download windows 10 in my pendrive. Its is showing an error always. Can you please help me to solve my problem. I had conducted the same steps shown by you. Please help me.
However folks at microsoft need to buy a few different computers with different setups before releasing a seriously or somewhat flawed (depending on your skill set) media creation tool. If someone puts a flash drive in their computer and dont pay attention, media creation tool sees all flash based drives as removable. So its possible to hit enter and delete your primary SSD drive to an unbootable state because it saw it as removable so went and erased it so it could put installation files on it. REMOVABLE??? This is what I experienced. My SSD, every partition was seen as removable as was the intended 32gig flash drive. Of course the choice of drives to erase and setup installation to was the SSD’s C: partition, the first usable flash drive. I halted the routine to find another way to install since folks have reported deletions where install was not pointed at.
bob
2 years ago
That was a very good article on how to do it. I would also have liked the knowledge of how to download a Windows 10 ISO and make multiple bootable USBs from it. Thanks, bob.
Shane`
6 months ago
I installed the Media Creation to a USB drive and at the beginning of Win10 installation I was prompted to find Media Drivers that were not on the USB.
How do you use the media creation tool to burn a win 10 dvd if it dowloaded the iso file but then you closed it before it could burn the DVD. Do you have to download the iso all over again?
Use this guide. It works also in Windows 10: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/burn-iso-file-windows/
I tried to create installation media for another PC for both 32 and 64 bit, Win 10 Pro, ISO file format (on a partition other than windows partition). My download was complete, it was verified, but when it started creating windows 10 media suddenly my windows partition started to fill up and my windows partition was completely used.
All of a sudden the media creation tool and my windows partition is left with a very small amount of free space. Can you help me to resume the media creation.
Note: Initially my windows partition was not having 8 GB free space. It was approx 5 GB, but after this download its 1.83 GB only. Also No traces of ISO file on the location I specified.
Can anyone please help
There exists a file C:$Windows.~WSSourcesPanthersetuperr
Also I traced error from file C:$Windows.~WSSourcesPanthersetupact
2015-08-03 21:52:50, FatalError [0x090001] PANTHR Exception (code 0xC0000005: ACCESS_VIOLATION) occurred at 0x5CD1DFA4 in C:$Windows.~WSSourcesunbcl.dll (+0002DFA4). Minidump attached (114616 bytes).
You should make space on your partition. Otherwise, it will not work. You see, the ISO file isn’t just downloaded. You actually get the install files which are then packed into the ISO. So, you need to have more free space than the actual ISO you create.
You should uninstall large programs, delete unneeded files or even use Disk Management to resize your partition.
Very helpful article!
One additional thing I found out the hard way with creating an install for multiple PCs:
If your connection is interrupted in the middle of the download, you have to start over from the beginning.
Ouch – especially if you have a slow connection.
Imagine getting 95% of a 3.5Gb download done and then having to start over.
Come on Microsoft, recoverable downloads are not that hard to manage.
Where do I get the product key if I download Windows 10 onto a DVD?
I got error when i want to create usb tool
Something Happend
0x800704DD – 0x90016
HELP PLS
What if I’ve already upgraded a machine ? The upgrade files appear to remain in C:$Windows.~BT. Can I create a bootable upgrade USB from these and save the expensive download.
I would like a clear guide on how to burn this to a DVD not a flash drive. I have been searching for days and can’t find one. I’ve download Windows 10 twice and saved the folder to my desktop which is always empty! Found two folders on my hard drive named $WINDOWS.~BT and $Windows.~WS. I assume windows is overriding my folder and put the files in there. So now how do I burn this ?!?
good day pls i tried to upgrade my pc.
after download complete and verify, then creating window 10 media my pc off itself. pls can i continue from the installation from where it stop since the $windows folder is already 2.4 gb pls help
I had downloaded MediaCreationToolx64.exe and choose my media as USB Flash Drive it started downloading, after downloading 3 GB of Data noting happens my USB drive is blank,, where to find my Windows 10 setup file which was downloaded. Do I need to download again .. Please Help
Followed the instructions, but after choosing USB to install to, the next window showed something like ‘choose drive to save deleted files from the USB drive’ with no option to ‘ignore’. My USB drive was clean and formatted anyway, but I chose E:drive thinking that nothing would be transferred (i.e. saved), but the Media Creator failed after over 50% done, saying something like ‘Can’t create the installation on this computer’, and my whole E: drive was wiped out.
I used Media Creator to go from 8.1 to 10, and this didn’t happen.
BTW, for anyone updating Win 10, don’t forget to configure Restore and create a Restore point for all your drives right after the update is complete, because the update deletes all your old restore points! I remembered last time, but forgot to do it right away this time.
Still don’t understand why when downloading something from M$ that is so dog gone slow…they have to have the worst speeds on the internet period.
I just want to verify that this will not wipe clean my computer that I am trying to fix.
Thanks
Not, it won’t.
I did as suggested on using the USB to create Win 10 installation disk but my machine will not recognize the usb. ???
After I chose “Create installation media”- or whatever the phrase for using a flash drive, it doesn’t give me the options shown here for choosing a drive, language, etc. It goes to directly downloading the files. Advice or suggestions?
I have installed windows 10 pro version 1803(i.e. not genuine) which is not activating as I have licence for windows 10 home single language edition . so, i ran troubleshooter and the troubleshooter told me that i have digital code for windows 10 home single language. can I downgrade windows 10 pro to my previous genuine windows 10 home single language edition?
What’s up…. So what if you don’t have enough memory on computer 1 and you are creating an installation media tool for computer 2. Computer 2’s OS vanished for some reason and I’m trying to reboot/reinstall it. Please advise. NOTE: WHEN ATTEMPTING TO DOWNLOAD COMPUTER 1 STATES NEED 8 GB OF MEMORY TO COMPLETE. That’s my error
I was told there was a problem in using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. I received the following error message. Can you pls. tell me what’s wrong?
Error Code Ox80042405 – OxA001B
Thanks.
I am trying to install windows 10 in my laptop but it gives the error that we couldn’t find any drivers, click load driver, and when I click it says TO INSTALL DEVICE DRIVER FOR YOUR DRIVE INSERT THE INSTALLATION MEDIA CONTAINING THE DRIVER FILES AND THEN CLICK OK
what to do please help
I don’t know why I am not able to download windows 10 in my pendrive. Its is showing an error always. Can you please help me to solve my problem. I had conducted the same steps shown by you. Please help me.
I am currently using windows 8.1
However folks at microsoft need to buy a few different computers with different setups before releasing a seriously or somewhat flawed (depending on your skill set) media creation tool. If someone puts a flash drive in their computer and dont pay attention, media creation tool sees all flash based drives as removable. So its possible to hit enter and delete your primary SSD drive to an unbootable state because it saw it as removable so went and erased it so it could put installation files on it. REMOVABLE??? This is what I experienced. My SSD, every partition was seen as removable as was the intended 32gig flash drive. Of course the choice of drives to erase and setup installation to was the SSD’s C: partition, the first usable flash drive. I halted the routine to find another way to install since folks have reported deletions where install was not pointed at.
That was a very good article on how to do it. I would also have liked the knowledge of how to download a Windows 10 ISO and make multiple bootable USBs from it. Thanks, bob.
I installed the Media Creation to a USB drive and at the beginning of Win10 installation I was prompted to find Media Drivers that were not on the USB.