I was able to solve it on a 2016 Lenovo laptop by disabling antivirus until next reboot and pointing my DNSs to Google Ones.
Hope this helps someone else as well.
Error Code: 0x80072f76 0x20017. Windows media creation tool.
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I've disabled the defender and other software for malware and virus protection and tried moving the executable to desktop and then launching it. I don't have an idea whats wrong with it! Any help is much appreciated.
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Anonymous
2017-11-13T07:33:39+00:00 Looks like an issue with the media creation tool.
I finally contacted customer support & they got the ISO file downloaded. The customer care executive got the ISO the same way as it is given in the link below.
Even though there was Chrome & Edge, he used internet explorer to do it.
The best part was I just described the issue as "Media creation tool error" & once remote access was granted he just ran the SFC /scannow command.
When that came out ok, He just went about downloading the ISO. Looks like a lot of people are having this issue it seems.
Only thing is that the ISO has all the versions so it is more than 4GB.
Change the browser user agent string to iPad (Safari) and you'll get the direct download ISO links. More info @
Get Windows 10 Official ISO Images Using MCT or Direct Download
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2017-10-28T23:27:41+00:00 Did not help me. I was so excited when i saw this alternative. But, to no avail! I’ve done this several times before!
Dang!
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2017-10-28T20:58:19+00:00 When i go to the link it automatically redirects me to https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10.
No option for installing the iso file only. This is extremely frustrating, I wiped my laptop and need to reinstall windows and post it to a customer by monday. At this rate I won't be able to do that!!!