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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
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to resolve the issue I was able to do it using two methods:
1- format the USB drive and create GPT partition. I used easeUS to do that,
2- Disable the secure boot in the bios.
and RUN the tool as an administrator.
Both solutions were successful and I was able to create the windows 10 1809 bootable USB with no errors.
Good luck
This worked for me, thanks for this fix for this weird problem.
Created 2 USB sticks with MCT on PC but then it failed with the third (3 different brands of USB).
I tried many other suggetions in this thread, and even though my error code was exactly the same, it didn't fix it for me.
Finally I decided to try formatting my USB as NTFS, and for some reason this worked. It doesn't really make sense why this is even necessary, because the tool just reformats it back to FAT32. But if I start with FAT32, it fails, and if I start with NTFS, it succeeds.
If you've tried all of the other options and failed, then try this and see if it works.
It worked after I did the format of the stick in the NTFS mode. Thanks
Worked a treat. Thank you.
Jim
