A small number of our videos may not play correctly in Firefox. Press the ? key to see keyboard shortcuts. This video is compatible with mobile devices. Need help viewing video content? Click here. To start the video presentation, please click on the picture below. The video was recorded using Windows 10, but the process is virtually identical in Windows 8 too. In this video tutorial we’ll walk you through the process of downloading the Media Creation Tool and then creating installation media. You can then take this media to your faulty PC and completely reinstall Windows. This tool will download Windows for you and copy it to either a DVD recordable disc or a USB stick. With the newest versions of Windows you can use the Media Creation tool. You could have tried a friends disc, but this may not have worked unless they had the same model of PC as you.įortunately, this situation gets a lot better in Windows 8 and Windows 10. You could have tried contacting your computer manufacturer for a replacement, but this was often expensive. With Windows 7 and earlier versions of Windows, if you lost your Windows installation DVD and needed to reinstall your computer, your options were pretty limited.

Reinstall Windows 8 or 10 with the Media Creation tool

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