Media Creation Tool is on my USB Flash Drive, what do to next?

Greetings!
yet another question about my "favorite" Windows 10. I already have installed windows 10 on my PC. I would like to have a copy of Windows 10, so in the case I have to reinstall it , I will have a copy of it for the future. Now, I have downloaded Media Creation tool to my USB Flash Drive. What do I do next? I do not want install Windows 10, since I already have it. If I click o Run Media Creation tool, what will it do? I just want to have a copy of Windows 10, so that if I need to reinstall it, I can have it right away.

Right now I have Media Creation tool is on USB flash drive .
Please explain!

Ztruker said:

Put MediaCreationTool on your hard drive, not the flash drive. Run it, select language, Win 10 version and 32 or 64 bit.



Create the ISO.
When it's done, use Rufus to create a UEFI/GPT mode flash drive if the PC originally had Windows 8 or 8.1.

So, I have to do this just to keep copy of Windows 10, which I don't want to install? How do I create ISO?What is Rufus and how do i get it? I used to have Windows 7,

Ztruker said:

Put MediaCreationTool on your hard drive, not the flash drive. Run it, select language, Win 10 version and 32 or 64 bit.



Create the ISO.
When it's done, use Rufus to create a UEFI/GPT mode flash drive if the PC originally had Windows 8 or 8.1.

Rich,

I ran the Media Creation Tool and downloaded to a USB drive. I understood that I could now use that USB drive to reinstall WIndows 10. I upgraded from Windows 8.1 on a UEFI PC.
Are you saying I cannot use that to reinstall Windows 10, without first creating a new USB with the Rufus utility? Just installing from the USB created via the Media Creation Tool won't work?
Thanks

Blue Owl said:

Rich,

I ran the Media Creation Tool and downloaded to a USB drive. I understood that I could now use that USB drive to reinstall WIndows 10. I upgraded from Windows 8.1 on a UEFI PC.
Are you saying I cannot use that to reinstall Windows 10, without first creating a new USB with the Rufus utility? Just installing from the USB created via the Media Creation Tool won't work?
Thanks

Blue Owl,
So, you have downloaded media creation tool and it is on your USB drive. Ok, what did you do next? You said you have RUN it.(what's happening when you did that? In my case I have Windows 10 already installed, but I want to have a copy of Windows 10 in case I have to reinstall it.

bobcat12 said:

Blue Owl,
So, you have downloaded media creation tool and it is on your USB drive. Ok, what did you do next? You said you have RUN it.(what's happening when you did that? In my case I have Windows 10 already installed, but I want to have a copy of Windows 10 in case I have to reinstall it.

No. I downloaded the Media Creation Tool to my HDD. Then I ran the Media Creation Tool (from my HDD) which went online and downloaded Windows 10.
So Windows 10 is on the USB drive, not the Media Creation Tool.
As I said, I thought I could, then, use that USB drive to reinstall Windows 10 if I wanted too. But it seems I must use the Rufus utility to create an installation USB drive. I am confused. Guess I am wait for a reply to that question.
I did boot to the USB drive and it starts the Windows installation. Don't know what I need Rufus for???

Blue Owl said:

Rich,

I ran the Media Creation Tool and downloaded to a USB drive. I understood that I could now use that USB drive to reinstall WIndows 10. I upgraded from Windows 8.1 on a UEFI PC.
Are you saying I cannot use that to reinstall Windows 10, without first creating a new USB with the Rufus utility? Just installing from the USB created via the Media Creation Tool won't work?
Thanks

If you used the media creation tool to make a bootable USB flash drive, you can install Win 10 from that.

My own preference was to use the MCT to download the iso. I upgraded 8.1 using that, but I also copied it to a bootable USB flash drive. I used that to do a clean install on the same hardware. (It activated, as advertised.)