

The command file may be useful on systems that prevent the installation because of incompatibilities.(Image credit: TechRadar) 3. It includes options to download older versions of Windows 10 among other things. MediaCreationTool.bat includes several options that are missing from Microsoft's Media Creation Tool. Tip: Microsoft re-released its own PC Health Check tool to find out if a device is compatible with Windows 11. The command file Skip_TPM_Check_on_Dynamic_Update.cmd configures the system to skip the TPM check during setup of Windows 11. The extracted archive includes another file that may be useful to some users.


Select in MCT choice for vanilla MCT processing without 'oem' modifications.Create USB choice for authoring usb via native MCT, including any 'oem' customizations (prompts once).Create ISO choice for authoring iso file directly via DIR2ISO snippet, including any 'oem' customizations.Auto Setup choice for upgrade directly without prompts, with edition change / intelligent fallback.Create ISO and Create USB are self-explanatory: the first saves the downloaded file as an ISO image, the other copies it to a USB Flash drive. Several options are displayed on the next page. Windows 11, Windows 10 version 21H2, or something else that is listed. MediaCreationTool displays all version that can be downloaded. Select Code at the top and then Download Zip.Right-click on the MediaCreationTool.bat script file and select Run as administrator from the context menu.Extract the ZIP file once it has been downloaded.Activate the Download Zip button to download the entire archive to the local system. Make sure that the screen is large enough.

Visit this page on the project's GitHub website.How to download Windows 11 MediaCreationTool scriptĭownloading the script is a bit more complicated than it could be. MediaCreationTool is an open-source script that supports downloading Windows 11 and also most release versions of Windows 10, including Windows 10 version 21H2.Īll it takes is to run the script with elevated privileges to download the desired Windows ISO image from Microsoft. The tool is useful, as it includes functionality to copy the operating system to a USB drive or create an ISO image which can be burned to a DVD. Microsoft will update its Media Creation Tool when Windows 11 is released, likely on the day of release on October 5, 2021. The latest version includes support for downloading a Windows 11 ISO image from Microsoft. I reviewed the MediaCreationTool back in March 2021 when support for Microsoft's Windows 10 version 21H1 system was added by its developer.
