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Along with making the download of Windows 10 ISO file, Microsoft has also made available Windows 10 Installation Media Tool. This Media Creation Tool helps you download Windows 10, and provides the best download experience for customers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
Windows 10 Installation Media Tool
To download the Windows 10 Installation Media Tool, visit Microsoft.com and scroll down till you see two purple Download Tool Now buttons.
The Windows Media Creation Tool will allow you to download the Windows 10 ISO directly from Microsoft, without having a product key. You can use it to clean install or Upgrade to Windows 10. It can be used to download the following editions of Windows 10 – Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Home N, Windows 10 Home Single Language, Windows 10 Pro and Windows Pro N.
The tool includes file formats optimized for download speed, built-in media creation options for USB & DVDs, and allows for optional conversion to ISO file format. There are two versions of the tool available – a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. Download the appropriate version of the tool and run it.
When you run the tool, it creates two directories on your system partition – $WINDOWS.~BT and $Windows.~WS. These folders contain the downloaded setup and installation files, and an option to resume the creation process if it fails.
When you click on it to run the tool, you will see the following screen asking you if you want to Upgrade this PC now or Create installation media for another PC.
I tried to upgrade from Windows 7 to windows 10 and was told I need to run the 64 bit (I confirmed my os is 64 bit) Media Creation Tool from Parallels. I downloaded and ran it. After several seconds, I get the following error.
If you click on Create installation media for another PC, you will see a screen asking you to choose the media to use. You may use a USB Flash Drive which is at least 3 GB, or you can create an ISO file, which you can burn to a DVD later if you wish. I chose to create an ISO file.
In any case, once you click on Next, the downloading of Windows 10 will start.
The tool will then soon automatically start creating Windows 10 media.
Once the ISO file is ready, you will see two options. One is to open the location where the ISO file has been saved and the other to Open a DVD Burner software to burn the ISO to disc.
I chose to open the ISO folder and run the setup file inside it to perform an in-place upgrade of my Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
The upgrade process went smoothly, except for one thing…
Something happened when installing Windows 10
I received a Something Happened error screen. I closed the screen and restarted the setup. It worked, and I was able to smoothly upgrade Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
If on the other hand, you select Upgrade This PC in the first screen, as mentioned above, and click on Next, you will see the following screen.
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Select your Language, architecture, and edition and click Next. The upgrade process will begin directly.
TIP: See this post if you receive any Windows 10 Media Creation Tool Errors.
Our next post takes you through a screenshot tutorials which shows how you can clean install or Upgrade to Windows 10, using Windows 10 ISO file you created here.
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If you need to install or upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft has released a very simple tool named Media Creation Tool to allow you to download Windows 10 to upgrade the current PC to Windows 10, or to download the Windows 10 ISO images, or to create Windows 10 DVD dic or Windows 10 USB flash media for clean installation or installing the new version of Windows on a different PC. - No product key is required to download the Windows 10 ISO images, or to create DVD or USB media trough the Media Creation Tool.
- No product key is required when upgrading Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 that is genuine and activated to Windows 10.
- No product key is required (by skipping the product key entering) when clean install Windows 10 from scratch on a device which has previously upgraded to Windows 10 and gets activated in the past (hence the HWID, the hardware ID, is recorded on Microsoft activation server). The free Windows 10 license with permanent activation also applies to computers upgraded to Windows 10 final RTM Build 10240 from Windows Insider Preview Builds and pirated copies of Windows managed to trick Microsoft into believing it’s genuine.
- A valid Windows product key is required when directly installing Windows 10 for the first time on a device.
To use the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool, follow these steps (this tutorial focuses on downloading ISO and creating DVD or USB media for Windows 10):
- Download Windows 10 Media Creation Tool from microsoft.com, or via the following download links:Media Creation Tool (Build 16299.15): MediaCreationTool.exeOlder version of Media Creation ToolMedia Creation Tool (Build 14393): MediaCreationTool.exe
Media Creation Tool (Build 10586): MediaCreationToolRetail.exe
32-bit Media Creation Tool (Build 10240): MediaCreationTool.exe
64-bit Media Creation Tool (Build 10240): MediaCreationToolx64.exeAll Media Creation Tools always download the latest RTM build of Windows 10 available, regardless of version. - Run the Media Creation Tool.
- In the “Windows 10 Setup” window, choose Upgrade this PC now if you want to upgrade Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 for free, and hit Next.To get Windows 10 ISO images, or to create a Windows 10 DVD disc or USB flash drive, choose Create installation media for another PC, and hit Next.
- Choose the Language, Edition and Architecture of Windows 10 that you want to download. Refer to the table below to identify the appropriate Windows 10 edition that you should download, as part of Windows 10 upgrade path or to ensure selected if the one which corresponding to the license or product key you purchased. Click or tap on Next when selection is done.
Host operating system edition Windows 10 edition Windows 7 Starter
Windows 7 Home Basic
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 8/8.1
Windows 8.1 with Bing
Windows 10 HomeWindows 10 Home Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 8 Pro
Windows 8.1 Pro
Windows 8/8.1 Professional with Media Center
Windows 10 ProWindows 10 Pro Windows 8/8.1 Single Language
Windows 8 Single Language with BingWindows 10 Home Single Language Windows 8/8.1 Chinese Language Edition
Windows 8 Chinese Language Edition with BingWindows 10 Home China - Select either to create a USB flash drive or ISO file as the media for Windows 10 OS downloaded. If you want to burn a DVD disc, choose ISO file. Hit Next when done.
- If you selected USB flash drive, choose the USB flash removable drive to be used as Windows 10 media. If the tool can’t find a USB flash drive, plug in a USB flash drive to computer, and click or tap on Refresh drive list.Windows 10 Media Creation Tool will format and write to USB flash drive without warning, so make sure you don’t have important files on the USB flash drive.If you selected ISO file, choose a folder location to store the Windows 10 ISO image.
- Media Creation Tool starts to download and verify Windows 10 files with a progress status.
- After the download is complete, the ISO or USB flash drive media is created automatically. Select Finish to exit.In Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, you can directly burn the ISO to DVD disc with Windows built-in DVD burner called Windows Disc Image Burner.
You can now locate the Windows 10 ISO or media at the location you specified in the wizard, and use it to install or upgrade any PC, such as using Windows 10 ISO to upgrade Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, by simply running the setup.exe. Do remember to check on Windows 10 system requirements to ensure that current system can run Windows 10 properly.
Microsoft Tech Bench Upgrade Program provides direct download links to Windows 7 (RTM & SP1), Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 ISO files, which hosted at one of the following URLs:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10iso
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench
The ISO images that are downloaded directly from Microsoft’s servers is completely the same and has identical file hashes with ISO images posted on MSDN and the leaked Windows 10 OEM ISO.
Note that the file hashes (CRC32, SHA1, MDA and etc.) for Windows 10 ISO images created by Media Creation Tool are unique as time stamps and other factors are different for each computers. However, all Windows 10 ISO downloaded is identical, all of which the final gold master RTM release with build version number of 10.0.10240.16384. Microsoft first released the Windows 10 RTM Build 10240 to Windows Insiders, properly to test the upgrade process.
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- Clean install and activate Windows 10 is allowed (No Windows 10 product key is issued for Windows 10 upgrade license acquired under the free upgrade program. However, Microsoft records the device’s hardware ID or HWID on its activation server when the device is first upgraded to Windows 10 and activated. On future reinstallation of Windows 10, the device will automatically be granted permanent activation status when the activation server detects its matching hardware ID).
- Windows 10 general avaiability release date is on July 29th, 2015
- Windows 10 RTM build version is 10240.16384.150709-1700.TH1. The GA build version (verison of Windows 10 after installing all zero day patch (ZDP) and Day One Patch as of official launch date) is, depending on where you look at it, either 10240.16393.th1_st1.150717-1719 (BuildLabEx in Registry), 10.0.10240.1639 (Hardware Adstraction Layer in MSInfo), or 10.0.10240.16405 / 10240.16405.150725-1815.th1 (Explorer.exe).
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