Windows 10 ISO question

[Spork829]

So I've been trying to create boot media for Windows 10 on a USB drive. I downloaded Microsoft's tool, selected the drive and it started formatting/setting it up. It's now been stuck on "getting a few things ready" for 20 ish minutes. Is this normal?

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It could take a while depending on the speed of the drive, etc.  If it hasn't made progress in an hour, let us know

[FAQBytes]

It can be. Give it up to an hour then remove and restart.

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

It could take a while depending on the speed of the drive, etc.  If it hasn't made progress in an hour, let us know

Ok

[DrMacintosh]

I freaked out too, let it do its thing. 

[Spork829]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

It could take a while depending on the speed of the drive, etc.  If it hasn't made progress in an hour, let us know

Been going for an hour since I posted this, so 1:20 ish in total. Should I stop it, and how?

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1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

Been going for an hour since I posted this, so 1:20 ish in total. Should I stop it, and how?

Check the used and remaining space on the flash drive, and the IO activity in Resource Monitor.

[Spork829]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Check the used and remaining space on the flash drive, and the IO activity in Resource Monitor.

Not sure where to find external I/O in Resource monitor. When I navigate to the USB the old files are still there, suggesting it hasn't even formatted. Not a good sign...

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2 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Not sure where to find external I/O in Resource monitor. When I navigate to the USB the old files are still there, suggesting it hasn't even formatted. Not a good sign...

I'm not sure what to try at this point.  I'd pull out the drive, reboot, and try again.  And run a CrystalDiskMark on it (make sure to turn it down from 1 GB to something smaller like 100 MB) just for curiosity, so we can see if it's a decently fast drive or terribly slow.

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I'm not sure what to try at this point.  I'd pull out the drive, reboot, and try again.  And run a CrystalDiskMark on it (make sure to turn it down from 1 GB to something smaller like 100 MB) just for curiosity, so we can see if it's a decently fast drive or terribly slow.

I assume you mean reboot the computer? I'll try that. Also there are some files on it I needed, when I was backing them up it was running at about 17 MB/s. 

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1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

I assume you mean reboot the computer? I'll try that. Also there are some files on it I needed, when I was backing them up it was running at about 17 MB/s. 

I would remove those since formatting is going to erase them anyway, so better to do it on your terms instead of unexpectedly

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I would remove those since formatting is going to erase them anyway, so better to do it on your terms instead of unexpectedly

Okay. So I tried closing the Windows installer thing and now it's saying "Setup is cleaning up before it closes, this may take a few minutes" Should I try and wait it out? With my luck it'll take another hour

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1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

Okay. So I tried closing the Windows installer thing and now it's saying "Setup is cleaning up before it closes, this may take a few minutes" Should I try and wait it out? With my luck it'll take another hour

Uh, no it's had its chance. Just kill it

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Uh, no it's had its chance. Just kill it

Alright, ended it. All my files are still there so yeah idk what it was doing, I will delete them then reboot. Should I maybe uninstall then reinstall the Windows configuration thing before trying again?

[Spork829]

23 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Uh, no it's had its chance. Just kill it

Alright, try #2 and it's actually started downloading Windows this time, looks like it's working. I think the issue before might have been because I plugged in the USB after I ran the setup program.

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6 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Alright, try #2 and it's actually started downloading Windows this time, looks like it's working. I think the issue before might have been because I plugged in the USB after I ran the setup program.

Hm that could be.  Regardless that's dumb and it should have told you it wasn't working   But glad to hear it's looking up!

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Hm that could be.  Regardless that's dumb and it should have told you it wasn't working   But glad to hear it's looking up!

Yep, gonna go take a shower and see if it's done when I'm back.

[Spork829]

25 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Hm that could be.  Regardless that's dumb and it should have told you it wasn't working   But glad to hear it's looking up!

Just got back, it's now at 75% creating media. Something to note is that the drive has an activity light on the side that is on now, totally forgot it was even there. It wasn't on at all during the first try, so the drive wasn't even written to at all