Windows 10 media creation tool can't see USB?

MissChief · 19 Dec 2016 at 03:23

I've been trying to get the windows 10 media creation tool to see the USB drives on my PC but first of all it wouldn't see a 64GB drive I had which was using NTFS so I formatted it to FAT32, still can't see it. Looking around it seems others have had trouble with Sandisk drives so I bought a Toshiba 16GB yesterday and the creation tool still can't see it! Any tips or tricks? Should I only be using the USB ports on the motherboard itself for example? Thanks.

moogle · 19 Dec 2016 at 04:16

Is the drive showing up as a Fixed Disk? I've had a Sandisk Extreme 64GB that shows up as an actual disk rather than a Removable Drive (it can still be removed, but it plays funny with apps looking for flash drives, or vice-versa looking for hard drives).

MissChief · 19 Dec 2016 at 13:41

It does show up with a drive letter and came preformatted. This is holding up my build now!

Punt · 19 Dec 2016 at 13:43

You could use the media creation tool to download the ISO and use Rufus to write it to usb. That's usually how I do it.

moogle · 19 Dec 2016 at 14:13

MissChief said:
It does show up with a drive letter and came preformatted. This is holding up my build now!

I mean does it say local disk in my computer, or does it show up as a removable.

See pic below. That's my removable flash drive, but it identifies as a local disk. It wont show up in the Media creation tool for me, unless it shows up as a removable disk.

I guess the other way is to try a different USB stick, or try Punt's suggestion of using Rufus.

asim18 · 19 Dec 2016 at 14:55

Have you got some third party antivirus running? Would't be surprised if it's blocking Win10 now that it's pretty much confirmed as a virus/spyware. I find it really astounding how people allow viruses on their computer just because Microsoft made it.

MissChief · 19 Dec 2016 at 15:31

No antivirus other than MSE. Both drives show up as removable media so I'm at a loss. Have downloaded Rufus and will set it up that way. Thanks all.

Orcvader · 19 Dec 2016 at 16:07

Have you tried Rufus?

Stoner81 · 19 Dec 2016 at 16:42

Punt said:
You could use the media creation tool to download the ISO and use Rufus to write it to usb. That's usually how I do it.

+1 for this

Stoner81.

asim18 · 19 Dec 2016 at 19:04

Turns out I was right. The Media Creation Tool is spyware. It collects data and uploads it to Microsoft.

I stupidly used the tool myself on my main machine and it's managed to send all sorts of info to Microsoft. Not happy about this.

So this is why Microsoft has started marketing Windows Defender as all the security you'll ever need.... So they can whitelist their own viruses!

Cant believe this is happening, it's actually safer to get the Windows ISO from illegal sources!