Windows 10 Media Creation Tool Error: 0x80042405 - 0xA001A

Anonymous
2017-11-16T13:39:26+00:00

Greetings,

Recently, I have seen many people inquiring about this error regarding the Media Creation Tool. I myself got this error when I try to create a bootable USB drive (aka Create an Installable Media).

Here's what I tried:

Reformatting USB drive to FAT32

Deleting files

Tried to locate and run Setupprep.exe (I couldn't find this file in C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources or anywhere)

Change Startup Type of Update-Related Services (Startup Type: Manual -> Automatic)

Uninstalled and Reinstall Windows 10 Media Creation Tool

Made sure my USB is above 8Gb as instructed by the tool (it is 15Gb)

The Fix (for me at least):

1. Downloadthe Windows 10 Media Creation Tool directlyinto the USB drive that you want to use as a bootable device (meaning you download the Tool into the same USB you chose to use as an Installation Media). If you already downloaded the tool on your PC's Desktop, copy it into your USB.

2. Run the Tool directly from your USB, meaning you open File Explorer, locate the MediaCreationTool.exe in your USB and double-click to run it.

The installer should then create an Installation Media/Bootable USB.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Tom

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Install and upgrade

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-07-24T18:37:44+00:00

    Thank you so much.

    I had the same problem, and thanks to you i didn't have to go through what you went, and simply went for the final solution... thank you!

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-23T05:39:26+00:00

    daniellessard2,

    You would have to create the installer from a working Windows computer and then use it to do the clean install. So if the computer your wish to do the clean install on is currently unable to boot into Windows to be used for building the installer you would need to do it with another functional Windows 10 computer. Did I understand your question correctly?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-23T04:33:35+00:00

    How would i do this while performing a clean install on a HP 13-c110nr stream13?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-20T17:47:28+00:00

    Windows 10 Media Creation Tool a very poor product from a professional point of view. I have tried a lot of time to make a USBboot but without success

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-15T19:53:19+00:00

    It is beginning to look like there are multiple reasons why this tool is not working and the reasons may be different from individual to individual. One of the issues, I'm thinking, is data corruption over the internet or the LAN as files are being moved from the Microsoft server to the target. I'm also wondering if broken system files on the target machine are contributing to this problem.

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