Under the “Create Windows 11 installation media” section, click 'Download Now'.ĭouble-click the MediaCrationToolW11.exe file to launch the tool. If you must install or reinstall Windows 11, you can use the Windows 11 media creation tool to create your own installation media using either a USB flash drive or a DVD. This requires a DVD writer on the computer you are using to create the media, and a DVD player on the computer that you want to install on. Microsoft recommends using an empty drive as any existing content will be deleted.

You will need a USB flash drive with at least 4 GB of space.

The download is roughly 4 GB and the time it will take to download will vary based on your connection speed and other factors.

You will need a computer with a stable Internet connection.

It is not necessary to enter your Windows product key when creating the Install Media or ISO File.īefore you start, here is what you may need: This tool will work on Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 7. Then my download started again from 0% but this time some new files were downloaded.You can download the Media Creation Tool directly from Microsoft (Relevant links are below depending on Version). And yes i saw no files in the $Windows.~WS folder for a while but all the previously downloaded files were vanished temporarily which showed up again. I thought running the media creation tool again would delete all the previously downloaded files. Doing that multiple times it finally ran again. As instructed in the message i restarted my pc and tried to run the media creation tool again and again after rebooting my pc but the result was same. In this case what i did is once again tried to run the media creation tool as an administrator but it’ll say something like ” set up tool didn’t download some important files”……… and then show…… ”the setup tool failed to……….reboot your pc and try again”. For the first time when i ran the media creation tool every thing was good till 96% of download but suddenly the window disappeared automatically. Now in the $Windows.~WS folder you find source folder if you don’t find the Windows folder that means your download is not complete. You can do this by folder properties option in organize tab as shown above. first you have to make sure that any folder in the root drive is not hidden. In the root folder you can see only $Windows.~BT because the $Windows.~WS folder is hidden.

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