

That way, you can put it on another drive and run the upgrade from it.Īfter downloading, the Media Creation tool presents burn to disc or flash drive. If you decide to try again, that option asks you where you want to save the ISO. I downloaded the ISO which is about 3.2 GB. Regardless of where the data is stored, you need it to do the upgrade. Some other member that has done this process will be of more help finding the data. I'm not certain where the tool puts the data, but it's probably in a Temp folder (your's, Window's, Component Based Servicing's, Distribution downloads) or in a hidden $BT folder on C:\ - I really don't know.

(See Figure 8 for an example.So recently Windows 10 came out and I manually downloaded the Media Creation tool and started upgrading my PC BUT I had to turn it off and all of the data that it downloaded has taken up my small amount of space in my SSD (I only have 16 GB left) can someone please tell me where does this tool store all of it's data so I could delete it.It sounds as though you selected the Upgrade This PC option.

inf file that is needed for the device being installed in order to load Windows, as shown in Figure 7.

See ( Figure 6 ).įigure 6: Navigating of the file system to locate the driver file location Use dir as necessary to see the contents of each folder. Use the CD command to navigate through the folders to the *.inf driver location.The correct drive is usually the D:, E:, or F: drive.įigure 5: Navigating of the file system to locate the driver file location Browse to the drive that contains the needed drivers using the " dir" command to view the drive contents, as shown in Figure 5.)įigure 4: Selecting the Command Prompt Option Select Troubleshoot → Advanced Options → Command Prompt.Boot to the respective Dell Windows 11 or Windows 10 media and select your computer and keyboard languages to get to the Home screen.NOTE: The images below use the IRST driver as an example.
