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Why MediaCreationTool takes forever to download. any alternative?
Why MediaCreationTool1803.exe takes forever to download the ISO into USB. I am trying to download a copy of bootable windows 10 pro 64 bit.
It downloaded the files and when it was processing it, internet got disconnected and it give me error "something went wrong" and here i am in the first square again.
when MediaCreationTool got closed it also deleted the downloaded files without even giving me any warning. the flash disk got corrupted as well.
now when i launched it again, it is downloading again. I have the highest fiber internet speed which can download 40MB per second, but it takes more than 2 hours for the mediatool to download the win 10.
there has to be a easy way. i am so annoyed with this Mediacreationtool.
can anyone please help me?
It downloaded the files and when it was processing it, internet got disconnected and it give me error "something went wrong" and here i am in the first square again.
when MediaCreationTool got closed it also deleted the downloaded files without even giving me any warning. the flash disk got corrupted as well.
now when i launched it again, it is downloading again. I have the highest fiber internet speed which can download 40MB per second, but it takes more than 2 hours for the mediatool to download the win 10.
there has to be a easy way. i am so annoyed with this Mediacreationtool.
can anyone please help me?
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Don,
I downloaded the Windows ISO Downloader.exe tool but my antivirus does not allow it to be opened, it states that publisher is unknown
I downloaded the Windows ISO Downloader.exe tool but my antivirus does not allow it to be opened, it states that publisher is unknown
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If i download the Iso from microsoft. is there a free portable tool to create a bootable usb? I want to contact microsoft to send me the iso link.
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thanks arnold
can Rufus portable create a bootable usb disk?
can Rufus portable create a bootable usb disk?
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McKnife
what a wonderful site . downloading , it is almost finishing in few more minutes.
so now how do i make this the 4GB file into the flash (Bootable)?
what a wonderful site . downloading , it is almost finishing in few more minutes.
so now how do i make this the 4GB file into the flash (Bootable)?
If you want to upgrade just that machine where you are dowloading on, double click the ISO ->it gets mounted as a drive in explorer and on it, you can start setup right away to upgrade.
If it's for another computer, use Rufus or this MS tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool to create a bootable usb with it.
If it's for another computer, use Rufus or this MS tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool to create a bootable usb with it.
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many thanks to all of you!
To be fair, I did mention TCP overhead (yes, that's real) and ISP oversubscription, and of course Windows own use of BITS (which the media creation tool uses last I checked) ...you aren't ever going to get the full 40. That's a theoretical. I still stand by the advice to use the media creation tool if you can. If you can get a genuine ISO from MS then use, there are good ISO to bootable USB tools (rufus or the USB-DVD tool McKnife linked to), but I haven't seen MS giving out links to non-trial non-VL media. That's what the media creation tool is meant to address. Which means using rufus or another tool requires getting an ISO by other means, and then we are back to the reliability of the non-MS source.
Would I trust an ISO from Dell for a specific OEM model? Yes. Would I trust an ISO from a forum that just offers various ISOs of windows and office and such? Nope. I don't know who modified that ISO or why, and there is no reliable way to validate that it wasn't tampered with. Just too sketchy.
Would I trust an ISO from Dell for a specific OEM model? Yes. Would I trust an ISO from a forum that just offers various ISOs of windows and office and such? Nope. I don't know who modified that ISO or why, and there is no reliable way to validate that it wasn't tampered with. Just too sketchy.
Making a device/storage bootable simply requires two things, active prinary partition and a ..
Rufus is in itself a bootable, the point you need a Windows compliant, have not looked recently, but after making the USB partition, fat32 active, copying all data from ISO, should ........
Rufus is in itself a bootable, the point you need a Windows compliant, have not looked recently, but after making the USB partition, fat32 active, copying all data from ISO, should ........
"Would I trust an ISO from a forum that just offers various ISOs of windows and office and such? Nope" - Nor would I. The site I linked, as said, uses Microsoft's own download servers.
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Many thanks Cliff, arnold and McKnife.
""Would I trust an ISO from a forum that just offers various ISOs of windows and office and such? Nope" -"
Just to clear things up, that tool uses official Microsoft download links.
Just to clear things up, that tool uses official Microsoft download links.
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Thanks Don.
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I tried again and again. now the media tool is giving me the attached error.