{"id":4214,"date":"2014-11-12T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2014-11-12T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T08:20:14","slug":"microsoft-tool-to-download-windows-8-1-iso-and-create-installation-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/microsoft-tool-to-download-windows-8-1-iso-and-create-installation-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Tool to Download Windows 8.1 ISO and Create Installation Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ready to install or reinstall Windows 8.1 but you don’t have a installation disc? In the past, it’s quite difficult to grab a copy of Windows setup ISO image, even if you have a genuine product key at hand. And now, thanks to a new online tool from Microsoft – Windows Installation Media Creating Tool, which lets you to download Windows 8.1 ISO image and create a installation media right away.<\/p>\n

To download and create a bootable CD or USB flash drive with the Windows 8.1 installation files, please follow the steps below:<\/p>\n

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  1. Head over to Microsoft’s installation tool webpage<\/a>, and then click the Create media<\/strong> button to download Windows Installation Media Creation Tool (about 1.26 Mb).<\/li>\n
  2. Once the file finishes downloading, double-click it to launch the Windows Installation Media Creation Tool. Connect your USB flash drive (at least 4 GB of space should be available) or insert a blank DVD.<\/li>\n
  3. This program allows you to select your desired language, Windows 8.1 edition and system architecture (32-bit or 64-bit). As far as editions are concerned, you can get Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Pro, the N versions of both operating systems, or a single language Windows 8.1 version.\n

    \"media-creation-tool\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. After clicking the Next button, you’ll be presented with two options to save the installation file: create a Windows 8.1 installation USB drive or save the setup ISO image for later user. If you don’t have a USB drive at hand, you should select the 2nd option to save the installation ISO image on your PC which can then be burned to a DVD.\n

    \"save-windows-installation\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. Click Next<\/strong> to download or create the install media. This will take a while depending on the speed of your Internet connection and Windows 8.1 edition that you’re downloading.\n

    \"download-installation-file\"<\/p>\n

    Once this is done, you can use the USB flash drive to perform a clean install of Windows 8.1 right away, or burn the ISO image to CD\/USB with the freeware ISO2Disc<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ready to install or reinstall Windows 8.1 but you don’t have a installation disc? In the past, it’s quite difficult to grab a copy of Windows setup ISO image, even if you have a genuine product key at hand. And now, thanks to a new online tool from Microsoft – Windows Installation Media Creating Tool, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,39],"tags":[1952,1953,1951,1950],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-8","tag-create-windows-8-1-installation-media","tag-create-windows-8-1-installation-usb","tag-download-windows-8-1-iso","tag-windows-installation-media-creating-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}