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Why does W10 media creation tool always have to redownload?
Paul wrote:
Ant wrote: VanguardLH wrote: Ant wrote: I noticed it keeps having to redownload every time I run it to make new bootable USB medias. Why? Shouldn't it already have everything downloaded since it was completed earlier? W10 installers are huge! Okay, I'm confused (but then I haven't had my coffee yet). The Windows 10 Media Creation Tool lets you download an .iso file. Why aren't you saving the .iso files? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZJEClyPnGg At timemark 2:01, select to download an ISO file. MCT is, as it is named, a media creation tool, not an incremental updater. How would I make the USB flash drive bootable with it like optical discs? Popup boot menu key (Preferred). Try pressing F10 right after powerup and keep pressing until a blue-framed menu shows up. https://01.org/projectceladon/sites/...ges/splash.jpg There will be two entries Windows 10 UEFI Windows 10 Since the USB key is a hybrid, it boots either. If you want to do a UEFI/GPT install, then you'd select the first option. If you wanted a legacy MSDOS installation (with 1MB alignment), you'd use the second option. ******* Or in the BIOS setup screen. Some BIOS setup screens also allow including the current USB sticks to show as options. But this is an inconvenient way to do it, since the intention of the BIOS setup screen is to make "permanent" changes. The F10 popup boot is for "temporary" boot choices. So I can just copy the huge ISO file into an USB flash stick, and boot from it? That's it? -- Quote of the Week: "As a thinker and planner, the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man..." --Mark Twain Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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Why does W10 media creation tool always have to redownload?
Ant wrote:
So I can just copy the huge ISO file into an USB flash stick, and boot from it? That's it? You need a tool to do the transfer. As I understand it, "dd" isn't enough. (This is not Linux after all.) The following program uses "bootsect.exe", amongst other things. It extracts bootsect.exe off the Vista thru Win10 ISO you're feeding it. Which is really a dumb-ass way to do it. The first link is the README, the second link the download. http://web.archive.org/web/201201022...usbdvd_dwnTool http://web.archive.org/web/201110052...B-DVD-tool.exe And I showed one picture of a USB stick I have here with some version of Windows 10 on it. It was done with the Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe (which converts an ISO for usage on a USB stick). You can see it's just copied most of the files over, off the ISO image. But it also has to take care of some tiny boot issues as well, and I don't think that's documented anywhere. https://i.postimg.cc/x1TddGrX/sample...rom-an-ISO.gif Paul |
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Why does W10 media creation tool always have to redownload?
Ant wrote:
So I can just copy the huge ISO file into an USB flash stick, and boot from it? That's it? The .iso itself is not bootable. It just has the setup program's files. You copy its contents (extract from the .iso file) to the target bootable media -- after first prepping that bootable media. You don't want the .iso file on the bootable drive. You want the files inside of it on the bootable drive. PowerISO (not free, 30-day trialware, $30 afterward) https://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/h...-usb-drive.htm Rufus (free) https://rufus.ie/ https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...rufus+bootable WinUSB (seems to be free) https://www.winusb.net/ Doesn't require reformatting, so you can leave your data files on the USB drive and add the boot records as long as there is enough additional space on the USB drive. Diskpart (free, included in Windows) "Make a bootable USB drive with the Windows utility program Diskpart" https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/s...ble-usb-drive/ The command shell under which you run diskpart.exe must have admin privileges. Diskpart has quirks, like drive numbers start at a count of zero (0) while partitions start at 1. Remember to first sel[ect] a drive, so you can then sel[ect] a partition. Make damn sure you have the correct drive selected first; else, you'll be ****ing over the partition(s) on your other HDDs or SSDs. |
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Why does W10 media creation tool always have to redownload?
VanguardLH wrote:
Rufus (free) https://rufus.ie/ https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...rufus+bootable WinUSB (seems to be free) https://www.winusb.net/ Doesn't require reformatting, so you can leave your data files on the USB drive and add the boot records as long as there is enough additional space on the USB drive. I haven't delved into why but users that have benchmark the file copy process (extracting files from the .iso file to copy onto the already prepped target bootable media) have found WinUSB is 12% faster at copying the files than is Rufus. That's after the formatting has completed and just for the following files copying. If you already have a formatted USB drive, WinUSB doesn't require a format again - but make sure you have enough free space on the bootable drive to accomodate all of the ISO's files. |
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Why does W10 media creation tool always have to redownload?
There are also partition managers that help build a bootable USB drive,
like AOMEI's Partition Assistant with its Windows To Go function. See: https://www.disk-partition.com/win2g...sing-0310.html There are some backup proograms that have the Windows To Go function, like: https://www.easeus.com/todo-backup-r...o-creator.html I had this backup program a long time ago but don't remember if this function was available in the free version of To Do Backup, plus I never had to clone a drive or create a bootable USB drive for Windows back then. |
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