If you’re still now able to upgrade to Windows 10 and the new OS download Bits folder $WINDOWS.~BT if not progressing further in size from 3.2 GB, you better run Media Creation Tool offered by Microsoft to upgrade to Windows 10 quickly.
READ: How to create or download Official Windows 10 ISO file by using Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool
Upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 0r 8.1 using Media Creation Tool
1. Download and run this tool on PC you wish to upgrade (no reservation is required for this)
2. Select ‘Upgrade this PC now’ and click ‘Next’
3. Wait patiently for the tool to download and install Windows 10 on your Windows 7 or 8.1 PC to upgrade.
Notice this ‘$Windows.~WS’ folder in your C drive growing bigger in size as the download progresses further.
I don’t know what went wrong. It happens that when I click the “Next” button to start the update of my PC appears a message “Something happens. Something happens” and only appears a Close button.
This error is faced by some users, use the tool again to upgrade you’ve Windows Update or this tool, only two options at present as far as I know.
This media creation tool download page isn’t opening. It is showing a blank screen.
Try in another browser, its opening fine here.
change location in control panel to english united states and restart
media creation tool crashes all the time.
It showed error to me for the first time, in second try it worked.Wait ofr sometime or restart computer and run the tool again.
I had reserved my update but still no $windows bt folder showing, means, no update is being downloaded, so i downloaded media creation tool today, and selected upgarde my pc, i want to know if my c drive in which thw windows is presently installed, will b formated or not? Will the windows 10 download format my any of drives?
I don’t think so, all your files and apps in previous windows will be carried forward, you can reset or clean install that partition after upgrade. But you need to ensure your copy is activated after upgrade.
it works perfectly!!
Thanks for confirming that, hope other users will use that tool too.
Does This Formats The Windows Drive e.g. C Drive?????????
No it doesn’t, you can clean install Windows 10 after the upgrade.
I get the “something happened” message. I’ve tried the tips — running as administrator and also double checked my English US setting, rebooted etc, still getting this message.
Try this I can’t assure you these one by one :
Visit C:\$Windows.~WS folder and try to run setup.exe if exists
If that folder exists, delete the folder and run the tool again.
Microsoft has not released any troubleshooter at the moment, these are official instructions they’ve given to fix the error
https://techdows.com/2015/08/fix-windows-10-setup-something-happened-error.html
I downloaded media creation tool and upgraded my PC. But when it was downloading I cancelled the download. When I wanted to upgrade again I got the “setup couldn’t start properly. Reboot your PC” message. I’ve tried to reboot my PC but still got the message. The C:\$Windows.~WS folder appeared and can’t be deleted
Can’t be deleted means do you’ve any permission issues on that PC? Hope you’re running as administrator. Can you try direct ISO we’ve covered here, after downloading the ISO, right click on it and mount it and run the setup file in it and choose ‘upgrade to this PC; option. Hope that helps
https://techdows.com/2015/08/use-this-trick-to-get-windows-10-iso-direct-download-links.html
I was running it as administrator. Can it be deleted? Anyway thanks for the suggestion
You can use Disk Cleanup tool, run the second time after selecting ‘C’ drive, click on clean system files button , when the tool shows delete all necessary temporary installation files and other. I hope you already know deleting Windows.old through Disk Cleanup, same procedure applies to this also.
will my games be deleted and must be installed again when ill use that “media creation tools “and upgrade it ??
Upgrade means, all applications including installed games will be preserved, no they don’t be deleted.
Does The data In C Drive / Windows Drive Gets Deleted Or Not?
Windows system file, applications will be moved to Windows.old which you can later use to get back to previous Windows , better backup importannt files before preparing for the upgrade.
works perfectly! thank you very much!
For some reason I’ve been stuck on the checking for updates part for like 8 hours. Why is this and how do I fix it?
You can’t stop that, wait patiently for it to finish.
For some reason the progress is not continuing i.e it is not going further than 0% but i am still getting files in the$Windows.~WS folder.what can i do?
Restart your computer and run the tool again.
help! it got stuck at 75% cant i resume it.actually my whole pc got stuck
Wait for some more time patiently, if it stays the same, Power off and back on. You may lose all the progress happened so far and eventually you may need to start from the beginning again.
that is what i did can you tel me the size of the update in media creaton tol s it less than 3gb
This folder ‘$Windows.~WS’ created by MRT could be greater than or close to 3 GB, depends on the version (32-bit or 64-bit) you’ve chosen while running MRT and have you tried to locate the folder and run the setup file.
Hi , All
Here is the Solution for whose suffering to delete folder ‘$Windows.~WS’
Use ‘unlock’ app to delete the folder ‘$Windows.~WS’
After installing the app. Right click that folder – unlock – delete – deleted.
100 % works
Is this tool works on asus pcs
Yes it will.