Can't tell you how much this helped. Got a computer from rent a center and they gave it to me with the previous owner still logged to the PC. Worked like a charm. Much appreciated
Absolute life saver man !!! My pc started updating everyday for a whole month then windows just broke…. Nothing worked my system was so corrupt not even factory reset worked lmao… thank god i found this vid ❤️🥰
thanks so much for this detailed tutorial. i was without internet access, missing drivers, and crucial updates for around 5-6 months until i found this solution. this has been the only thing that has actually helped me. a real lifesaver and it’s all thanks to you! ☺️
Great tutorial. Simple and easy to follow. I've just reinstalled Windows 10 on what I thought was a completely dead PC. Although I installed from the USB stick in the Recovery Mode > Use a device > I had 3 EFI options and chose the one at the top of the list (despite it not stating USB in the name). And it worked!! Before using the USB stick installation I had tried *every* troubleshooting option, PC reinstallation and uninstall update... everything... but everything failed until I tried the USB reboot method. Cheers😃 *PS.* I haven't had any problems with the missing Product Key after skipping it in the initial Windows 10 installation
Its worth remembering: Media Creation Toolkit does not actually download a full contiguous "fresh" windows ISO from microsoft servers. It assembles one *mostly* using your existing windows installation (its basically a sysprep that then hashes and compares the results to a known set of reference blocks online, then gets replacement blocks for those that fail). Follow along with process explorer or task manager (or perfmon or process hacker) if you need evidence. The most obvious evidence is that you are almost guaranteed to see significantly less than the bandwidth total needed to add up to the end file size.
I wish I'd watched this first. I lost 30GB data on my 64GB stick. Still, taking nothing away from the video. It is understandable. Pretty easy steps to follow.
you didn't lose it. just search up "how to get original data back from USB drive" and then watch a video. it's pretty simple: open cmd, diskpart, >select disk [disk index number, usually "0"], >clean. >create partition primary, format drive.
I already have windows 10 installed but not working properly and I need to reset my pc can I chose upgrade option from usb Drive and keep all file protected in other drive
Thank you for the helpful video. Question: when you download the Media Creation Tool, does it automatically include the ISO file or do you have to download that separately? The USB stick needs ISO and Media Creation Tool to boot up the PC and start the installation process -- correct? Again, thank you for your time and energy.
-- A follow up for those people who are trying without success to download Windows Media Creation Tool: it didn't work for me until I used a USB memory stick with 128 GB of free space. I had read online in several areas, even MIcrosoft's site, that a memory stick with 20 GB would be adequate space. Not in my experience. Each memory stick I used was blank and formatted clean and ready with its maximum allotted storage. 10 GB, 16GB, etc. No luck. As an experiment I downloaded Media Creation Tool onto a brand new 128 GB memory stick. It worked. Download went smoothly and installation onto a new SSD drive worked without a hitch. Just saying.
@@rerite2 Thats weird, I've just installed a bootable windows install from the MS media creater on a 16 GB sandisk. Its actually 14.5 GB once formatted and it has 10 GB of free space afterwards. But then again, thats an desktop install from the downloaded MediaCreationTool21H2 ( www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 ) which is only 18.5 MB in size, it uses the internet to then download the files needed onto the USB stick, all from within Win10 desktop environment. The ISO image is only 4.3 GB too.
@@liftylu -- Yes, it's strange. I wish I could give a tech description about why exactly it worked but I don't know. It was a shot in the dark, by process of elimination, and it worked, thankfully.
Since, I am having huge booting issues and other recovery issues have not worked. Can I use the media creation tool in a laptop that had a manufactured original copy of Windows license with it and have that license be recognized? Thank you this is an excellent video!
Hi. I am following every step of this on another pc to make a bootable USB drive for another pc. It takes me through to the part where it asks if I want to create the media for this pc or another. I then click another whilst having an already formatted 32g USB in but then it sends an error message saying that I need to clean up 8g of space but not on the USB. It is actually asking that I do that on this pc's C drive. Why would that be and how does one fix it?
@@mahnoorkhandurrani8284 Not exactly. Still having issues. Managed to install windows again but keeps saying that my memory (not storage, because that's empty) is low, so I think it comes down to hardware problem rather than software. Btw, on a different pc, I installed windows without issue. Made Bootable disc and so on. No issues there.
@@mahnoorkhandurrani8284 I would try that. My laptop is more than 10 years old so I'm really thinking it's just time to upgrade but I would try that if I were you.
@@landibear6509 I am just wondering that how I will do that...right now I am trying to use rufus ...if it goes well than ok...otherwise I will try to change the path
In media creator tool I made bootable usb but then during windows instalation It did not ask me which version of windows I want to install, so I do not have this step there and also no step for putting product key and after instalation I check which version It installed so I have Home version. I do not understand this...I need to change for Pro version but I am not sure how to do...
Thank you. all of the large youtuber, tell you how to find the mediacreationtool, but if you just stick it into the new computer, it does nothing. You explain that the mediacreationtool needs to be executed first on the flash drive, then it becomes an installable boot device on the new computer.
My Win 10 crashed with the October update and its no longer on my drive which I do not want to reinstall win 10 on it...instead i bought a SSD drive...do u still recommend only use the Media creation tool with customs? BTW, you don't mention on unplugging the other drives in order to avoid a mistake...why?
Very well explained however mine isn't hat fast when it comes to copy win10 bootablefiles to the flash drive but just waiting for it to proceed. Thank you for this, keep it up
i have a new hard drive on my laptop. I want to reinstall windows because the hard drive must be formatted for me to be able to use a system image recovery i have with all my stuff on it. I have a windows digital license. Do i install using Custom install Windows only or the first one: upgrade install windows and keep files? thanks
after I plugged in a brand new 32 USB I'm on a laptop and it's still processing under HP I'm wondering is it frozen my hard drive I think bit the dust 😔
Hey i know this isn't installation but, due to the fact i saw your C: disk management partition had "page file" in it I was able to solve the issue of why i couldn't delete a partition to format it into 1 on my HDD. So thanks for that, moved it to my SDD and now I have on big hard drive partition rather than 3 that were split up for some godawful reason.
Does it required to turn off every permission it asks like location and send diagnostics and many more? And if we turned it off what will happen and by chance we kept those settings on then what will happen please anyone reply it
Hello, I have a fuzzy screen on my Windows 11 computer, how would I access the bio with this? I’ve ordered a memory stick which will arrive tomorrow, but I wouldn’t be able to access this mode which you’re showing in terms of the installation. Any suggestions?
When I get to the part where it says choose which media to use this never appears, it looks like its reading my C drive instead of my F drive which is my USB drive, so it says you need to make room on your C drive. How do I get it to read my USB drive?
I had a pirated version of win 10 on my pc...now i had got the media creation tool from Microsoft.. My question is do i have to choose the CUSTOM INSTALL option or UPGRADE option ? Please help somebody
Hi, after I press install now it sends me directly to where I want to install windows instead of sending me to where I need to select the operating system. What should I do in this case if I want something else other than Windows 10 Home?
mine doesn't go to the choose which media screen. any help on this would be great. Mine is giving me an error saying I need 8GB of free disk space on (C:) I have plenty of disk space, not to mention its not giving me the option to save this to my 16Gb USB drive. any fix for this?
Same message for me too. I am using a 32g usb and it is giving me not only the same message but because I am using a different pc to make the usb on, it is actually asking me not for the usb but for my c drive. So it does not give me the option to make my usb bootable, instead it wants to do it with this pc's os.
Hi I did everything you said I got to the restart after taking flash drive back out A blue screen comes back saying why did my pc restart 1-4 My pc is connected to wired network I hit next and it keeps repeating to this same screen Why did my pc restart
So systematic, clear, precise, thoughtful and well prepared. Wish other uploaders could match you. Much appreciated.
Hi i have a question can I make my external hard disk Bootable with media creation?
@@ninjaopsyt8520 you could, but the performance would be absolutely horrendous.(i.e Slow)
Can't tell you how much this helped. Got a computer from rent a center and they gave it to me with the previous owner still logged to the PC. Worked like a charm. Much appreciated
Everytime this happens to my pc my whole day gets thrown out the window
My weekend was a bust lol.
Haha 2 days for me im still strugling, waiting on the media tool to download onto the usb now hope it works
There goes other tech needs this week.....mainly because finding the downloads I need requires a Google search and 8 TH-cam videos
@@chacaabbaylee768 4 days in on my girls computer lol dont give up!
😂😂
Absolute life saver man !!! My pc started updating everyday for a whole month then windows just broke…. Nothing worked my system was so corrupt not even factory reset worked lmao… thank god i found this vid ❤️🥰
thanks so much for this detailed tutorial. i was without internet access, missing drivers, and crucial updates for around 5-6 months until i found this solution. this has been the only thing that has actually helped me. a real lifesaver and it’s all thanks to you! ☺️
Great tutorial. Simple and easy to follow. I've just reinstalled Windows 10 on what I thought was a completely dead PC. Although I installed from the USB stick in the Recovery Mode > Use a device > I had 3 EFI options and chose the one at the top of the list (despite it not stating USB in the name). And it worked!! Before using the USB stick installation I had tried *every* troubleshooting option, PC reinstallation and uninstall update... everything... but everything failed until I tried the USB reboot method. Cheers😃
*PS.* I haven't had any problems with the missing Product Key after skipping it in the initial Windows 10 installation
Got me back on line.. downloaded a bad driver on my MSI and this got me past it through the BIOS.. Bless you and great job!!!
Glad I could help
@@vcloudbitsbytes hi if i was to install windows 10 on an old laptop would i still be able to install 11 afterwards
You are an absolute life-saver, sir! This might be the best guide I've ever seen on the Internet! Much appreciated!
This video is the only thing that helped me break out of HP restart loop. Thank you! I spent hours on it.
Your video saved me. NOTE: if you have a pre-installed window, it will automatically activate it after these steps.
Managed to create boot media and resurrect a dead machine. Many thanks Bud !
One of the best presentation and a good step by step guide I've come across well done and thank you
Glad it was helpful!
@@vcloudbitsbytes How can i come back all my files in pc?? It was erased all 😢
Its worth remembering: Media Creation Toolkit does not actually download a full contiguous "fresh" windows ISO from microsoft servers. It assembles one *mostly* using your existing windows installation (its basically a sysprep that then hashes and compares the results to a known set of reference blocks online, then gets replacement blocks for those that fail).
Follow along with process explorer or task manager (or perfmon or process hacker) if you need evidence.
The most obvious evidence is that you are almost guaranteed to see significantly less than the bandwidth total needed to add up to the end file size.
Thank you! Thought I'd never use my pc again. Much appreciated 🙏🏾
I wish I'd watched this first. I lost 30GB data on my 64GB stick.
Still, taking nothing away from the video. It is understandable. Pretty easy steps to follow.
you didn't lose it. just search up "how to get original data back from USB drive" and then watch a video. it's pretty simple: open cmd, diskpart, >select disk [disk index number, usually "0"], >clean. >create partition primary, format drive.
Great explanation, really appreciated that! exact solution for my problem and with a very clean route.
step by step very clean and clear thanks man
Glad it helped
Even hp recommended me this video so you should be proud of this video
Thank you, Sir. Very nice presentation. Very clear and detailed.
You are most welcome
I am like listening to a Filipino Speaker Sir the way you explain it is so comprehensable👍👍👍
I already have windows 10 installed but not working properly and I need to reset my pc can I chose upgrade option from usb Drive and keep all file protected in other drive
Thank you so kindly for this Tutorial it as been very helpful indeed
Thank you so much.. it's helped me a lot.. successfully upgraded to windows 11 pro
You helped me out big time. Easy to follow for sure
Thank you for the helpful video.
Question: when you download the Media Creation Tool, does it automatically include the ISO file or do you have to download that separately?
The USB stick needs ISO and Media Creation Tool to boot up the PC and start the installation process -- correct?
Again, thank you for your time and energy.
-- A follow up for those people who are trying without success to download Windows Media Creation Tool: it didn't work for me until I used a USB memory stick with 128 GB of free space. I had read online in several areas, even MIcrosoft's site, that a memory stick with 20 GB would be adequate space. Not in my experience. Each memory stick I used was blank and formatted clean and ready with its maximum allotted storage. 10 GB, 16GB, etc. No luck. As an experiment I downloaded Media Creation Tool onto a brand new 128 GB memory stick. It worked. Download went smoothly and installation onto a new SSD drive worked without a hitch. Just saying.
@@rerite2 Thats weird, I've just installed a bootable windows install from the MS media creater on a 16 GB sandisk. Its actually 14.5 GB once formatted and it has 10 GB of free space afterwards.
But then again, thats an desktop install from the downloaded MediaCreationTool21H2 ( www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 ) which is only 18.5 MB in size, it uses the internet to then download the files needed onto the USB stick, all from within Win10 desktop environment.
The ISO image is only 4.3 GB too.
@@rerite2 that’s strange. According to the Microsoft community forum, that says at least 8 GB. That’s what I’ve ordered.
@@liftylu -- Yes, it's strange. I wish I could give a tech description about why exactly it worked but I don't know. It was a shot in the dark, by process of elimination, and it worked, thankfully.
This man saved me it worked thanks a lot
Thank you this worked for our issue.
Thank you for this clear and detailed tutorial
You’re welcome 😊
This was so useful. Thank you so much!
You're so welcome!
Thank you 🤗! The video was helpful to me
Installation will ask you if you want to Install Windows, keeping your files. Will it erase programs though?
Helped me with my windows crashing, thanks man
thanks for this one man 👍
Very useful. I learnt from your video
Since, I am having huge booting issues and other recovery issues have not worked. Can I use the media creation tool in a laptop that had a manufactured original copy of Windows license with it and have that license be recognized? Thank you this is an excellent video!
if you signed in to a Microsoft account, you shouldn't worry, as the hardware of that laptop will be linked to your windows copy
@@hiragitee5088 Thanks for your reply
Thank you so much for your video. It is details and clear instructions.
You are welcome!
Very well explained, my compliments!
Great to hear!
Thank you omg, I was worried! 😮💨
Whats the diference between doing it this way and just clicking the setup button on our flash device??
Thank you very much! great video, it was super helpful!
Thanx bro....Bahut hi badiya explain kiya he ....
Thank you for this video!, Really helpful.. ❤❤
Glad it was helpful!
thank you so much this was a huge help!!
Thank you, Great tutorial. 👍
thank you so much from philippines you solve my problem
Bro does it contains MBR or GPT ?
Thankyouuuuuuuuu very helpful and informative
Very helpful, thank you..
this worked 100% on me and I also have a bootable usb for this one🥰
Hi. I am following every step of this on another pc to make a bootable USB drive for another pc. It takes me through to the part where it asks if I want to create the media for this pc or another. I then click another whilst having an already formatted 32g USB in but then it sends an error message saying that I need to clean up 8g of space but not on the USB. It is actually asking that I do that on this pc's C drive. Why would that be and how does one fix it?
I have the same problem ...have u got any solution for this
@@mahnoorkhandurrani8284 Not exactly. Still having issues. Managed to install windows again but keeps saying that my memory (not storage, because that's empty) is low, so I think it comes down to hardware problem rather than software. Btw, on a different pc, I installed windows without issue. Made Bootable disc and so on. No issues there.
@@landibear6509 I think if we can change the installation path from drive c to another drive will it resolve the issue....?
@@mahnoorkhandurrani8284 I would try that. My laptop is more than 10 years old so I'm really thinking it's just time to upgrade but I would try that if I were you.
@@landibear6509 I am just wondering that how I will do that...right now I am trying to use rufus ...if it goes well than ok...otherwise I will try to change the path
I have a valid licensed version of 8.1 pro. Wish to upgrade to 10 Pro. Do I need to purchase a product key seperately for 10 Pro again?
not woring thise run time show error code 0x8007005 - 0x20000 how to solve problem
In media creator tool I made bootable usb but then during windows instalation It did not ask me which version of windows I want to install, so I do not have this step there and also no step for putting product key and after instalation I check which version It installed so I have Home version. I do not understand this...I need to change for Pro version but I am not sure how to do...
Thank you. all of the large youtuber, tell you how to find the mediacreationtool, but if you just stick it into the new computer, it does nothing. You explain that the mediacreationtool needs to be executed first on the flash drive, then it becomes an installable boot device on the new computer.
My Win 10 crashed with the October update and its no longer on my drive which I do not want to reinstall win 10 on it...instead i bought a SSD drive...do u still recommend only use the Media creation tool with customs? BTW, you don't mention on unplugging the other drives in order to avoid a mistake...why?
Very well explained however mine isn't hat fast when it comes to copy win10 bootablefiles to the flash drive but just waiting for it to proceed. Thank you for this, keep it up
i have a new hard drive on my laptop. I want to reinstall windows because the hard drive must be formatted for me to be able to use a system image recovery i have with all my stuff on it. I have a windows digital license. Do i install using Custom install Windows only or the first one: upgrade install windows and keep files? thanks
i didnt know about this video yesterday and i clicked on the wrong drive and now windows in install somewhere else is their anyway it could be fixed
Very helpful.... Thanks
Thx
Help
I get a blue screen when booting
Stop code is "unsupported processor"
Checked if my drivers were out dated but they are all up to date
after I plugged in a brand new 32 USB I'm on a laptop and it's still processing under HP I'm wondering is it frozen my hard drive I think bit the dust 😔
Thanks bro love uu u ur the best
My computer gives no image after boot up from USB. I dont ever see the windows icon part. plz help
TY BRO / WAS VERY HELPFUL // PERFECT VIDEO // I DIDNT GET CONFUSED // rty
Ive done this perfectly but every time it just spits me back into the bios, any ideas?
I’m getting issues downloading my installation media. Progress bar keeps resetting.
Hey i know this isn't installation but, due to the fact i saw your C: disk management partition had "page file" in it I was able to solve the issue of why i couldn't delete a partition to format it into 1 on my HDD.
So thanks for that, moved it to my SDD and now I have on big hard drive partition rather than 3 that were split up for some godawful reason.
After installing windows, can I recover an image recovery backup during the setup?
This tutorial was great! Really made things clear and simple.
You are telling us that it is only necessary to delete the windows partition in order to repair a corrupted computer?
Will this delete all my existing files in my laptop? I hope you notice 🙏
Does it required to turn off every permission it asks like location and send diagnostics and many more? And if we turned it off what will happen and by chance we kept those settings on then what will happen please anyone reply it
Does it only remove the disk you pick or all of the disk?
Near the end of the driver download my pc restarts and doesnt work, any solutions?
when restarting after installing windows 10 it repeatedly started blue screening and idk what to do
Well I don’t remember the license key and I don’t have my manual or box it came in how do I activate it
Thank you so much!
Well done. Thank you!
Thank you too!
would i still have to download if its already been used
thank you, i kept the usb on after the restart and kept getting sent back to the media tool creator
I want to completely wipe all files. Do I just remove all partitions on the "Where do you want to install Windows?" page?
Hello, I have a fuzzy screen on my Windows 11 computer, how would I access the bio with this? I’ve ordered a memory stick which will arrive tomorrow, but I wouldn’t be able to access this mode which you’re showing in terms of the installation. Any suggestions?
When I get to the part where it says choose which media to use this never appears, it looks like its reading my C drive instead of my F drive which is my USB drive, so it says you need to make room on your C drive. How do I get it to read my USB drive?
Did you get it to work?
Each time I try to install it, it restarts and shows a new "windows on volume 4" I'm up to 5 now.
I had a pirated version of win 10 on my pc...now i had got the media creation tool from Microsoft..
My question is do i have to choose the CUSTOM INSTALL option or UPGRADE option ?
Please help somebody
Hi, after I press install now it sends me directly to where I want to install windows instead of sending me to where I need to select the operating system. What should I do in this case if I want something else other than Windows 10 Home?
It says driver error, there are drivers missing it needs to install windows 10.
Same
@@nightmarevortex8876 sounds like u fucked up
I followed all the steps and configured boot from USB but on the boot screen I still see the writing ASUS and a spinning wheel
I didnt understand at the driver part i inserted my usb flash into the bios usb hub in motherboard and it says i couldnt find any of my drivers
Same
Can’t see my usb drive while trying to download the creation tool
mine doesn't go to the choose which media screen. any help on this would be great. Mine is giving me an error saying I need 8GB of free disk space on (C:) I have plenty of disk space, not to mention its not giving me the option to save this to my 16Gb USB drive. any fix for this?
Same message for me too. I am using a 32g usb and it is giving me not only the same message but because I am using a different pc to make the usb on, it is actually asking me not for the usb but for my c drive. So it does not give me the option to make my usb bootable, instead it wants to do it with this pc's os.
Thank you 👍👍👍
I see my internal hard disk not the USB drive, please help
The choose media screen wont appear for me.
it tries to download it to the C: drive even if I have a usb drive in the pc.
big big big thanks brother
I can't find the Media Creation Tool, and when I visit the site it redirects me to the ISO installation. Any ideas?
Hi I did everything you said I got to the restart after taking flash drive back out
A blue screen comes back saying why did my pc restart
1-4
My pc is connected to wired network
I hit next and it keeps repeating to this same screen
Why did my pc restart
I have the exact same issue.. -____-
For my first experiance on pc after 20 year ,you show me the light ! Tank you
Thank you very much.