Windows 10 Media Creation Tool error

[Death4two]

Hello, I have tried to install a bootable windows setup to my USB drive how it gives me the error 0x80004005 0xA001A I have tried all the troubleshooting steps except the "start setupprep.exe" one because I do not have it on my pc for some reason and so I am stuck at that error. Any help would be appreciated. 

[Tabs]

A few basic questions first:

1. Are you connecting the usb flash drive directly to your pc, or via a hub (like a monitor, keyboard)?

2. Does the usb drive have enough capacity - at LEAST 8GB - for the image?

3. Does the usb drive have any kind of hardware encryption enabled that would prevent access to the full partition layout?

 

If all those are fine, then try this:

 

Use the media creation tool to download the iso, but instead of getting it to make the bootable usb stick, save it to disk somewhere. Then, download a program called rufus instead - it has more options and in my experience has been way more successful than the all-in-one utilities Microsoft have released over the years - and use that to create the drive instead.

[Death4two]

1 minute ago, Tabs said:

A few basic questions first:

1. Are you connecting the usb flash drive directly to your pc, or via a hub (like a monitor, keyboard)?

2. Does the usb drive have enough capacity - at LEAST 8GB - for the image?

3. Does the usb drive have any kind of hardware encryption enabled that would prevent access to the full partition layout?

 

If all those are fine, then try this:

 

Use the media creation tool to download the iso, but instead of getting it to make the bootable usb stick, save it to disk somewhere. Then, download a program called rufus instead - it has more options and in my experience has been way more successful than the all-in-one utilities Microsoft have released over the years - and use that to create the drive instead.

Yes, I am directly connecting it to my pc and I have 64GB of storage on my USB. It does not and I also tried it with a 32GB one. Ok, I will try to use Rufus instead. 

[Tabs]

2 minutes ago, Death4two said:

Yes, I am directly connecting it to my pc and I have 64GB of storage on my USB. It does not and I also tried it with a 32GB one. Ok, I will try to use Rufus instead. 

 

I have a bunch of 16GB Kingston Datatraveller G4 drives that I've had the most success with. 64GB drives can be an issue - windows will natively only allow 64GB drives to be formatted as NTFS or ExFAT, and in order for a drive to boot windows installation media in native EFI mode it needs to be formatted as FAT.

 

Rufus allows this, but I'm unsure if that could be causing your issues - I don't have a 32GB drive to see if it has the same effect, I only have 16 and 64 drives. It definitely caused problems for me, though.

 

I'd recommend trying with your 32 one first if you go with rufus. And good luck

[Death4two]

54 minutes ago, Tabs said:

 

I have a bunch of 16GB Kingston Datatraveller G4 drives that I've had the most success with. 64GB drives can be an issue - windows will natively only allow 64GB drives to be formatted as NTFS or ExFAT, and in order for a drive to boot windows installation media in native EFI mode it needs to be formatted as FAT.

 

Rufus allows this, but I'm unsure if that could be causing your issues - I don't have a 32GB drive to see if it has the same effect, I only have 16 and 64 drives. It definitely caused problems for me, though.

 

I'd recommend trying with your 32 one first if you go with rufus. And good luck

Thank you it has worked now however which I boot with the USB it either displays a black screen with the iso or it shows the windows symbol but no loading symbol and stays on that and does not enter the setup.

[Tabs]

14 minutes ago, Death4two said:

Thank you it has worked now however which I boot with the USB it either displays a black screen with the iso or it shows the windows symbol but no loading symbol and stays on that and does not enter the setup.

 

What type of system do you have? The default image creation process in rufus is to create a mixed-mode usb stick. It may be better to specify your system type.

 

If you have a UEFI-based system (basically anything from intel 2000-series Core processors, or amd fx+), make sure CSM is *disabled* in bios, and use the "gpt partition scheme for uefi" target system type in rufus.

 

Also, ensure that all devices you don't physically have are disabled in your bios - way back in the Vista days i had a similar issue where setup would take 30+ minutes to actually launch; it was due to having a floppy disk drive active in bios when none physically existed. I imagine this could happen with modern hardware in some configurations, so worth checking.