Windows 23H2 MCTs available, including .ISO

Bree said:

Yes, the MCT hasn't been updated yet. If you do need an ISO for 23H2 then the directly downloaded ISO is the only 23H2 available at present.

You can make a USB from it if you split the install.wim into two using DISM.

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How did we find out which version it was after downloading? (Media Creation Tool)

erhanercan said:

How did we find out which version it was after downloading? (Media Creation Tool)

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You can find out before the MCT downloads and makes the ISO or USB. Just run the MCT. When it shows the copyright notice, open the file C:\$Windows.~WS\Sources\products.xml (it will open in your browser). This is the file that tells the MCT what to make, currently it says 22621.1702. In fact you don't even need to open it, if products.xml has a date of 05/05/2023 then it's still the 22H2 one.



If you already have an ISO this tutorial tell you how to see what build it contains.

Neowin reports: ETA for Windows 11 23H2 on MCT was planned for November 15, which will be a day after the month's Patch Tuesday update.

Comp Cmndo said:

Neowin reports: ETA for Windows 11 23H2 on MCT was planned for November 15, which will be a day after the month's Patch Tuesday update.

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Any news ?

erhanercan said:

Any news ?

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Still .1702 at the moment.

Can you contact Gabe Frost on X.com for an updated ETA?

Keith Weisshar said:

Can you contact Gabe Frost on X.com for an updated ETA?

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last day i wrote under his MCT message. No one answer

erhanercan said:

last day i wrote under his MCT message. No one answer

https://twitter.com/x/status/1719745738144641172

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They are taking a long time to decide what to do.

fg2001gf11F said:

They are taking a long time to decide what to do.

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Exactly :)

IanMosley said:

Still .1702 at the moment.

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Yesss


The products.xml for the Media Creation Tool has just been updated to build 23H2 media.
The MCT will make 22631.2715 install usb or ISO now.

Is there a way to direct the mct to download the giant esd, extract it and create the iso on a different partition? I dont want all that writing to the os partition I would rather direct it to a different disk.

If not, then d/ling the iso direct or the esd direct is preferable for me.

erhanercan said:

Yesss


The products.xml for the Media Creation Tool has just been updated to build 23H2 media.
The MCT will make 22631.2715 install usb or ISO now.

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Kind of useless, the install.esd is bigger than 4GiB. Not good for FAT32.
The MCT only offers to Create a DVD.

Kind of useless, the install.esd is bigger than 4GiB. Not good for FAT32.
The MCT only offers to Create a DVD.

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You could extarct the iso to ntfs formatted usb ( if your bios supports efi booting from ntfs )

Or you can use a usb stick with two partitions. If boot.wim is started from the smaller fat32 partition, setup will search all accessible partitions for the matching installation media.

Easy way:

1. create a fat32 partition a couple of gb or so. mark it active. Copy the contents of the iso ( except install.esd ) onto that fat32.

2. Create another partition ntfs. Copy only the entire sources folder onto the ntfs partition ( including the esd this time)
Alternatively plonk the entire sources folder on any other partition/disk that setup will be able to see.

Setup has behaved like that since win7.

Windows 11 version 23H2 build 22631.2715 ISO or USB now available with MCT.

SIW2 said:

You could extarct the iso to ntfs formatted usb ( if your bios supports efi booting from ntfs )

Or you can use a usb stick with two partitions. If boot.wim is started form the smaller fat32 partition, setup will search all visible partitions for the matching installation media.

Easy way:

1. create a fat32 partition a couple of gb or so. mark it active. Copy the contents of the iso ( except install.esd ) onto that fat32.

2. Create another partition ntfs. Copy only the entire sources folder onto the ntfs partition ( including the esd this time)

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I know that, but that means I have extra steps.
I may as well download the ISO with install.wim and split it as I've done last week.

fg2001gf11F said:

Kind of useless, the install.esd is bigger than 4GiB. Not good for FAT32.
The MCT only offers to Create a DVD.

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So it does, if you ask the MCT to make an ISO. You have a choice when starting the MCT of making an ISO or a USB. If you want to make a USB it asks for one that is 8GB or larger.


Create Windows 11 Bootable USB Installation Media Tutorial - Option One

In fact, if you choose to make a USB, then for the first time ever the MCT makes a Fat32 usb containing an install.swm and install2.swm



Both the ISO and the USB made by the MCT have the same contents (a subset of that in the directly downloaded ISO). Also, this means @Brink is now going to have to add a third 'install.swm' instruction to his See Full Details about Windows 11 Installation ISO or USB Tutorial tutorial.

Bree said:

So it does, if you ask the MCT to make an ISO. You have a choice when starting the MCT of making an ISO or a USB. If you want to make a USB it asks for one that is 8GB or larger.

Create Windows 11 Bootable USB Installation Media Tutorial - Option One

In fact, if you choose to make a USB, then for the first time ever the MCT makes a Fat32 usb containing an install.swm and install2.swm

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Both the ISO and the USB have the same contents (a subset of that in the directly downloaded ISO). Also, this means @Brink is going to have to add a third 'install.swm' instruction to his See Full Details about Windows 11 Installation ISO or USB Tutorial tutorial.

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I saw that, but why don't they split it in the ISO already so then I can use it also to copy to a USB?
Also, when creating the USB the damn PC froze on me and had to restart again.
My flash drives are 32GB. I hope it doesn't freeze again. It froze when I touched the mouse the 1st time.
It worked this time.

I don't bother with a USB stick, I have the Windows installer on an 8GB internal NTFS partition, I can boot and/or install from that.

BrianInEngland said:

I don't bother with a USB stick, I have the Windows installer on an 8GB internal NTFS partition, I can boot and/or install from that.

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I have multiple machines; I want the installation media on one flash drive that I can use on all different PCs.

fg2001gf11F said:

I have multiple machines; I want the installation media on one flash drive that I can use on all different PCs.

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That makes sense, I use an NTFS drive so I don't need to split the .wim file