I have written this carefully, to help you help me. Thank you very much. essence: For my multiple ‘Framework 13’ PCs, i need to download Windows to a USB stick. But Microsoft’s Windows Media Creation tool download won’t run sufficiently, at least on the one pc i have that is working. It’s a non…

If the tool has problems, why not abandon MS’ Media Creation tool for Rufus or UNetBootIn so that you can create an installation USB from the Windows DVD ISO image ? K3n.

The Windows Media Creation tool will not run on an Apple computer running macOS. I don’t think you should need to run the Media Creation tool as “Administrator” explicitly, try just running it normally. (EDIT: you also shouldn’t need to disable Windows Defender, for a tool from Microsoft! and Windo…

Windows Media Creation tool amateur question, regarding Apple PCs

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Doug_H October 26, 2025, 7:10pm 4

Thank you very much to the above repliers. I have progressed this bad situation one step, to:

https://community.frame.work/t/windows-media-creation-by-amateur-result-seems-wrong/77169

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Windows Media Creation tool amateur question, regarding Apple PCs

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