Windows 10: MSMedia Creation Tool Question

Hello

Can the MS Media Creation Tool
(on a usb stick) be used to boot
a pc on startup, simply, withot having to go thru the complete w10 re-install that is in the Tool ?

Bob

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Media creation tool question

Sure, this is an option. Download the MCT on another PC, create the installation drive there, and then plug the newly created media into the PC you want to upgrade. All the files needed for Windows 10 Setup will be on the flash drive.





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Media creation tool question

Can I do the download and USB setup on a different computer then the one I want to do a clean reinstall on. The computer I am using seems to keep having an error at 50%. I was wondering if I can set it up on a different computer and then plug it into this
one. Will that work or does the Media Creation Tool pull some needed info off of my computer during setup of the usb drive?

Thanks for helping!

- Ryan

 

The Media Creation Tool can make the install media as a bootable USB stick. When you boot from this, in addition to it's main function of installing Windows, it has the Advance Start up options such as booting to a command prompt, repairing your Windows, etc.

It can be used to repair an existing install of Windows 10 that won't boot, but it can't be used as a way to start a Windows that's on the PC but can't boot up itself.

 

Hello, (Note: I apologize if this does not apply, but I will post what I think)

I tried looking to see if you can do that (what I understood was to be able to load up the computer using a different Windows operating system, to be able to look at all the files on the computer, assuming you have issues loading Windows from the drive itself). I didn't find anything that lets you do that from that Media Creation Tool.

Yet there are alternate ways to load up your hard drive to be able to copy/move/etc files from your drive. There's alternate an alternate operating system that you can use (Ubuntu, it's free) to load up the hard drive (as long as it's not encrypted). Also there's Active Boot Disk (it's not free) which uses the Windows operating system to run from that external device that Active Boot Disk is installed on. There's other free Windows-based operating systems that are free out there (that I cannot find right now) that can load up your drive.

 

You mean like right here on this forum?
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums

 

That is correct; You right.