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dkperez · 08-11-2015, 03:18 PM

Looks like a couple conversations going on concurrently... Ok, lemme see:

"why do I need a DVD": 'Cause on the ONE system out of FOUR that would even do the download, when I selected a USB drive I NEVER FOUND IT. I formatted an 8GB flash drive as FAT32 and it DIDN'T FIND IT. I formatted it as NTFS and IT STILL DIDN'T FIND IT. The &^%$#@! software doesn't give me the OPTION of TELLING it what drive the usb flash drive is in, so that option appears to be screwed too...

"dkperez -- if the Media Creation tool really isn't downloading it for you, try "
this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...d/windows10ISO

Been there, done that: "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found. "

"We have had no problem (apart from one need to retry which then worked) burning a few DVDs with the Media Creation Tool and that without kicking any puppies . So it does work.

I have had no need to look at the suggestions people have been making on other sites but in case not mentioned have you tried using the tool when most of the populated world is offline e.g. around 12 hours ahead of Universal Time? "

ONE laptop (out of four systems) DOES SAY it's finished downloading. So, time shouldn't matter as near as I can tell. It THEN goes into some verification, THEN SAYS it's doing "media creation", which I PRESUME is local since it SAYS it downloaded 100%, then at about 50% it PUKES again and throws a DIFFERENT "Something happened" error...

For all of you that have been successful, I"m happy for you. But there are a WHOLE bunch of people out there seeing the same kind of idiotic problems I am, and trying all sorts of things to get things to work...

08-11-2015, 03:18 PM	#1523
dkperez Groupie Posts: 184 Karma: 1047931 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: nine	Looks like a couple conversations going on concurrently... Ok, lemme see: "why do I need a DVD": 'Cause on the ONE system out of FOUR that would even do the download, when I selected a USB drive I NEVER FOUND IT. I formatted an 8GB flash drive as FAT32 and it DIDN'T FIND IT. I formatted it as NTFS and IT STILL DIDN'T FIND IT. The &^%$#@! software doesn't give me the OPTION of TELLING it what drive the usb flash drive is in, so that option appears to be screwed too... "dkperez -- if the Media Creation tool really isn't downloading it for you, try " this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...d/windows10ISO Been there, done that: "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found. " "We have had no problem (apart from one need to retry which then worked) burning a few DVDs with the Media Creation Tool and that without kicking any puppies . So it does work. I have had no need to look at the suggestions people have been making on other sites but in case not mentioned have you tried using the tool when most of the populated world is offline e.g. around 12 hours ahead of Universal Time? " ONE laptop (out of four systems) DOES SAY it's finished downloading. So, time shouldn't matter as near as I can tell. It THEN goes into some verification, THEN SAYS it's doing "media creation", which I PRESUME is local since it SAYS it downloaded 100%, then at about 50% it PUKES again and throws a DIFFERENT "Something happened" error... For all of you that have been successful, I"m happy for you. But there are a WHOLE bunch of people out there seeing the same kind of idiotic problems I am, and trying all sorts of things to get things to work...