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Trying to create Windows 10 boot disk, using MS Windows Media Creation Tool. I was logged into Admin account.
On 4 systems (2 Win 10 Home; 2 Win 10 Pro) I got same error message:
“Something is wrong. Could not run tool on system.”
Other than create on USB, the second choice in Media Creation Tool is:
“Create ISO file. You’ll need to burn to DVD later.”
Can one burn ISO file to USB drive?
Any ideas?
cmar6,
I just created a Win10 USB using the tool today w/o problems.
Is your USB stick large enough? It should be at least 8GB and I’d recommend 16GB.
If you select the ISO option it will save it to to your specified internal drive, very useful for Over-the-Top repair installs. You can also use a program like RUFUS to “burn” it to a CD or USB drive (“Burn” is a hold over from the CD days).
The ISO is a single compressed file containing the install package for Windows.
If you BURN the ISO file to a USB flash drive, you basically expand the ISO onto the USB flash drive and create a bootable install USB. In File Explorer, it will look like the old CDs/DVDs you used to get to install Windows with files and folders showing.
You can also COPY (ie, copy/paste, drag/drop) the ISO to an external drive or USB flash drive. But be aware of the size of the ISO before you do. Fat formated drives are limited to 4GB files, so you may need to format a drive with NTFS first. This leaves the ISO as one compressed file with the extension .ISO.
cmar6,
A boot drive once created will boot on any system capable of handling the Windows version it was created with. For example, I have a Macrium Reflect boot disk created with Reflect version 6 and it still boots on every machine I have. As an added bonus Reflect still works on all of them!
However, it may not have the required drivers to fully enable all the devices on any given computer. It will load default drivers that work for most common devices but may not utilize their full potential.
It will allow you to copy files from the internal disks and even let you some repair work.
cmar6
I also have Macrium Reflect 8. It’s good but quite slow on my 5 systems (about 4 GB/hour).
I find it hard to believe that this speed is Reflect’s fault.
I still use Reflect V6 to backup my NAS as IFW does not do folder backups.
Just the largest folder on the NAS:
Here’s the results from my PowerShell program that runs Reflect:
The first backup is the largest folder NAS-Pictures the second one contains all the other folders that I wish to backup and it excludes quite a few like the File History folder which is already a backup.
As you can see it backups more than 235GB with a complete verification and takes only 2.5 hours. Quite a bit more than 4GB per hour. I’d look elsewhere for the slow down here. Note: this backup is over a 1Gbit local network connection!
As for IFW I love it works great and is a little faster than Reflect in my testing. I especially likes how it integrates into the Windows Recovery environment for recovery when necessary. No you can’t buy a lifetime license but you do get all future updates to the current major version (which doesn’t change often) and of course you can keep using it even after the updates stop. As you can see I’m still using Reflect V6 and it works just fine, I don’t need all the new bells and whistles. All I want is reliable accurate Images and Restores and I get them from both of these products.
So IFW is only for disk images only. Then I’ll have to stick with Reflect. Their tech support tried to help on backup speed. As per their recommendation, I did a thorough chkdsk, which did double the speed to the still very slow 4 GB/hr.
Backups serve two major purposes – Restoring the Windows OS and restoring data files. A drive image is the best way to restore the Windows OS, but is really not the best way to restore data files. Unless you are making daily changes to the Windows OS which includes adding new apps, you don’t need to make daily backups (images). However, you commonly make changes/additions to your data files on a daily basis and thus need to make daily (or more often if desired) backups of your data. If your backup system is just making images, then you are making daily images mostly for your Data files. While an app can be setup to do both image and data files, I have found such apps are slower on one or the other.
I have set up two totally different backups systems….one for images of Windows OS and one for my data files which yields amazing speed in the daily backups of my data files. I also do not use backup software for either image or data backup. I use what comes built-in into Windows.
My Windows is on my C:\ drive and use Windows backup service to make an image and store that image on a separate drive.
I have moved my all data files to my D:\ drive. I backup my data files using a Robocopy command that increases the speed of the backup, backups up only data files that have been changed or new, and requires no image to be loaded to retrieve a data file backup copy.
I have set this system up to be totally automatic.
The screen shot below is part of my backup log. You will note that it backed up 102 GBs in 34 minutes or 5.6 GBs per minute. I set that backup to demonstrate the speed, but on a daily basis the backup of new/changed files last only a few seconds.
FYI: I have used this system for many years and have restored images numerous times and never had it fail on me. Also I have restore a vast number of my data files and have never lost any data.
All you need for this system is the Windows boot disk created by the Windows Media Creation tool and your drive that has your backup.
I place the Windows Boot Disk on an USB Flash drive and the specific instructions to restore an image in an old DVD case which I keep on my desk….”break glass in case of fire” title.
HTH, Dana:))
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