Windows 10: windows 10 media creation tool is only working once per thumb drive, if rewritten, the...

Hello, I am having a problem with windows 10 media creation tool where it only works once per thumb drive? to explain it better, I have two 8gb thumb drives, here i'm installing 32 bit windows 10 on an old tablet pc.so, the first drive, I used media creation tool to write, using the "both" option, this was the first time i tried anything at all for this project, and it booted, but there was an error during the install, so i decided to write only 32 bit to it, this time instead of booting, no matter how many times i format it or rewrite it in media creation tool, it will never boot, any pc i tr

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Thumb Drive Partition created by Windows 10 Media Creation Tool

No, but this is not the partition that I'm talking about. I used Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to create an installation partition on a thumb drive. That partition was used to update my Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 Anniversary on my PC. Now I can only access
the installation partition with the setup files on my thumb drive. There's an old partition with al my data on the thumb drive, but I can't access it. I would like to be able to access it to retrieve my data.

 

Windows Media Creation Tool Error 0x80070079-0xA001A

Your USB thumb drive needs to be at least 8 GBs.

The error code 0x80070079-0xA001A means that the tool doesn't have permission for it to run. For us to assist you, we suggest that you
follow the simple steps listed below:

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  Right-click on the Media Creation Tool.exe.
  
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  Press Properties.
  
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  Click on General.
  
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  At the bottom, click on Unblock.
  
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  Press Apply, and then OK.
  

Let us know how it goes and if you need further assistance, feel free to post back.



You can also download the ISO first using the Media Creation Tool, then create a bootable copy. Yes, you can use it to perform clean install.

If Windows 10 was already installed and activated on your system, just proceed to perform a direct clean install as described in the following articles.

Step 1: How
to download official Windows 10 ISO files

Step 2:

• How to: Perform a clean install of Windows 10

 

Thumb Drive Partition created by Windows 10 Media Creation Tool

Hi,

I've recently updated to Windows 10 using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. It
created an Windows 10 Installation partition on my thumb drive. What I didn't expect was that I would not be able to access any of my old Data. I'm wondering if there's a way access data on the old partition in the way that it is currently organized.

Thanks,

JD