Windows 10: Media Creation Tool Problems

Hi,

Hope someone can help here. More Windows 10 s**t that is driving me mad!

D/loaded the media creation tool hoping to put Win 10 on a USB to repair my daughters Win 10 installation on an ASUS eeePC (no optical drive).

Running the tool on a Win 7 Home pc (64-bit)

Despite the pc both offering to scan the USB stick for viruses (through Kaspersky) and Windows itself offering to open the USB folder, the Media Creation Tool says it can't find a USB flash drive(!)

Doesn't matter if I put the flash drive in other USB sockets (tried three in total), it doesn't matter whether the flash drive is inserted into the pc before launching the Media Ceation Tool or after - still says it can't find the flash drive!

When I ran the Media Creation Tool on another machine (a Win 7 laptop) it recognises that there is a USB flash drive, it goes through the long, long process of downloading the Win 10 image (which took more than an hour), it says it is then creating the media and then (after 30 mins or so) reports that there is a fault and it can't complete the job.

I have an elderly 32-bit desktop machine which is still running Vista (no, don't laugh, I inherited it). I tried running the Media Creation Tool and got a message saying that it was incompatible (is the Media Creation Tool 64-bit??). Message was "MediaCreationTool.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

Looked at the Micro$oft site and couldn't find a 32-bit version of the Media Creation Tool. There are sites on the web which purport to do this but I am not prepared to download software from companies/organisations that I do not recognise.

So some questions (and can folks please answer these specific questions rather than saying things like "well it worked for me!" or going completely off-topic)

1) Any idea tow to resolve the "Can't find flash drive error message" when Media Creation Tool deigns to run?

2) Any idea why the Creation of the media may have failed (the error message was 0x800 something - 0xA0015)

3) Where can I download a legitimate 32-bit version of the Media Creation Tool?

Cheers,

Art
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Problem with Media Creation Tool

i tried to re install my windows 10 with the use of Media Creation Tool but it says that " We're not sure what happened, but we're unable to run this tool on your PC. If you continue experiencing problems, reference the error code when contracting costumer
support. Error code: 0x80072EE4 - 0x20000". I tried troubleshooter but didn't work. How to fix this?

 

Problem with Media creation tool .

Hi Pushkal,

Thank you for showing interest in Windows 10.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and we are happy to assist you.

I would like to know, Which Windows version you are using?

I suggest you to refer to the following Microsoft article on Delete files using Disk Cleanup.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/...nup#delete-files-using-disk-cleanup=windows-8

I would recommend you to refer to the following micorsoft article on Installing Windows 10 using the media creation tool.

Windows 10 herunterladen

You can download and upgrade to Windows 10 through ISO.

Refer to the following Microsoft article to download Windows 10 ISO.

Download Windows 10

Reference: Refer to the following Microsoft article on Windows 10 Q&A.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-faq?ppud=4

Hope the above information helps. Reply with necessary information and the result to help you further.

Thank you.

 

You can try creating a Windows 10 USB media this way. It may work.

1. Download the Windows 10 ISO from this link: Windows 10 ISO
2. Create the Windows 10 USB media using Rufus: Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

This is the way I prefer to do it and it works without any issues.