Method 1: Use the Media Creation Tool to create an ISO This article will show you how to use the MCT to download the latest ISO or trick Microsoft's site into letting you download the ISO images directly instead. Microsoft recommends using their Windows 10 Media Creation Tool (MCT) to download the latest ISO image or create a bootable USB drive. You can also use them to make Windows 10 virtual machines using Hyper-V, VirtualBox, or VMware.
ISO images are handy as they allow you to create bootable media that can be used as a recovery environment for troubleshooting or performing clean installs of the latest Windows 10. You can then burn this ISO file onto another DVD, create a bootable USB drive, mount it as a drive letter in Windows, or extract its files using 7-Zip. This article provides two ways you can download the latest Windows 10 ISO images from Microsoft.Īn ISO image is a sector-by-sector copy of the Windows DVD stored as a single '.iso' file on your computer.
When a new version of Windows 10 is released, Microsoft also releases new ISO disk images of the operating system to perform clean installs or create a bootable recovery environment.
