Windows 10: Windows Media Creation Tool for 20H2 simply doesn't work

I've used previous versions of this tools a few times to generate bootable windows media, but this one appears to be completely non-functional.

1. try to download directly to a 16gb USB stick -- zero progress for 12+ hours, need to kill it. try again 4 times: same thing
2. download as ISO seems okay, and it offers to help open the dvd burner (it doesn't), but isoburn.exe reports that the ISO is too large (just slightly too large for a DVD). IMGburn concurs, this 4.7gb iso won't fit on a DVD
3. try to "burn" the ISO to USB stick in Rufus - this writes the ISO, but the media cannot boot on any machine I've tried it on.
4. try to understand how microsoft took a simple, straightforward and necessary thing and made it non-functional and a massive time waster.
5. regret not downloading and saving each major version ISO
6. also, get delayed for three days trying to start this project

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Windows doesn`t start. Authomatic repair doesn`t work.

Thanks again!!

I`m sorry I had not noticed that the text on the picture was in spanish. It says that windows has replaced some damaged clusters in "name" file and "directory". Then, at the end "an unspecified error occurred (75736e6a726e6c2e 4f6)".

I`ll do it and I`ll be updating this thread when I have the report.

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I ran SeaTools. These are the results:




Does it mean my HDD is useless?

 

Windows doesn`t start. Authomatic repair doesn`t work.

Thanks for your answer, ken!

I deleted all my data. I had have it backed up.

I did a clean installation using the windows media creation tool (usb option).

No, I didn`t. I thought a clean installation would solve the problem.

After posting my previous message, I did it.





After chkdsk, I close cmd and tried to boot and the laptop just turned it off. This morning I`ve restarted it and automatically windows did a repair. Windows has booted and it seems that the repair tool has removed chrome and acrobat pdf reader (the only two programs I had installed after reinstalling windows).

Now Windows is installing updates and restarting my lapop, I`m kind of frightened. I don`t want it to happen again. Anyhow, I want to know what has brought the issue

I`ve been looking for information about the error code at the end of the picture and I didn`t get anywhere.

 

Media Creation Tool is NOT working

Hi,

There are several reasons why you're getting this issue on downloading Windows 10 using the
Media Creation Tool. The most common are the network connection or the anti-virus firewall is enabled on your device.

To resolve this, we suggest that you manually update the operating system instead of using the Media Creation Tool. Click on this
link for the steps on how to update
Windows.