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The process of accidentally formatting, and overwriting the flash drive or hard drive with the Media Creation Tool also overwrites the filesystem metadata.Īs of Jan.

Also files maybe partially overwritten or corrupt as well within that first 32GB of the drive as the is a the new ESD partition space. This overwritten data will erase roughly the first 4.45 of data on the drive.

The media creator program writes approximately 4.45GB GB of data to the drive. Understand that there will be data loss.When the drive is created it wipes the detestation that was picked, and creates a ESD partition. Is the data recoverable after running the Windows Media Creation Tool? After it wipes the drive it creates a 32GB or less partition name “ESD-USB”. The term wiping means to erase or clean the whole drive. Does the Media Creation Tool wipe the whole drive. It does this by taking the drive you selected in the “Select a USB Drive screen” and wiping it, then placing the files required to make a bootable Windows 10 media drive. When you download and run the Windows Media Creation Tool, it’s not an installer but the program that actually makes a bootable Windows 10 installer. Why does the Windows Media Creation Tool wipe a drive? Other things someone in the house grabs the “wrong drive” thinking drive was empty or not needed when in fact it was. Often I get customers that do no understand the tool will wipe a whole drive and use an external hard drive or USB that has data but they think it will not be erased. In the example above if anything other than the “D drive” was selected I would loose data since those five drive are internal hard drives wither terabytes of data or more each. However it will show every other drive connected (internal, external USB hard drive and flash drive).

The Windows media creation tool will not show your C Drive, the drive that Windows is installed and running on.

The tool even though it specifics a USB flash drive, it is not limited to a USB flash drive. What Leads to Data Loss with the Windows Media Creation Tool?