[SOLVED] Media Creation Tool 1909 won't start Win 8.1

[GrahamB]

Last year I successfully upgraded another older PC from Win 7 to Win 10 with some assistance from a forum member to alleviate BSOD on Win 10
Now I'm trying to do the same for my wife's PC (Lenovo X240) running Win8.1
However when I try starting the Media Creation Tool as Administrator I get :


I have tried the following without success:

1 Downloaded all the latest Lenovo updates including a new bios and graphics driver update
2 Downloaded all the latest MS updates and ran WindowsUpdateDiagnostics
3 Tried all suggested on this link [FIX] There Was A Problem Starting Windows 10 Setup
I don't have $Windows.~WS and $WINDOWS.~BT on my machine (despite checking view invisible and system files)
4 Tried clean boot, and safe mode
5 Uninstalled my anti virus program ESET Internet Security
6 Ran System file checker
7 I have also tried the suggestions on this video

I should add that the PC runs perfectly and has no operating issues

Now completely out of ideas :-(
Hopefully some one more learned and experienced than me might be of assistance
-Graham

 

[xrobwx71]

You can get the ISO with this: Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool

If I'm using a USB drive, I always use Rufus. Rufus

I haven't used the MCT since the last time it pissed me off 3 years ago.

 

[GrahamB]

Thanks for the suggestion will certainly give that a try

 

[britechguy]

I had one machine on which I kept getting this error. I simply used another machine to fetch the latest ISO for Windows 10.

After doing a repair install on the machine that was doing this the issue stopped.

In your case, just fetching the install media elsewhere, then running it to do the actual upgrade, will almost certainly work.

 

[GrahamB]

Thanks you all for your help. Successfully upgraded to Win 10 using the ISO download