Windows 10 Version 1903 Media Creation Tool Now Available

All of my installs did download and additional 2 GBs during the first phase of the install.  Of course, 5 of 6 upgrades failed initially.

Install from USB3 is also an issue where it crashes before finish.

A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing will be the error for USB3 flash drives as well as USB3 DVD Drives.

This is also the case when you try to install from SD card slot without having the realtek card reader mass storage driver, INTEL NVME  Driver,  INTEL RST Driver,  because these drivers are not native to windows.

Load Driver will be displayed as well as there are no drives to install on.

Driver Missing During Install

That's why I use a USB 2.0 blueray drive now as my installer.

Record Dual Layer DVD at 1X or 2X or 4X max instead of 8X which fails.

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-8-5GB-Branded-Surface/dp/B005F2YPH2

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-8x-external-usb-2-0-blu-ray-disc-double-layer-dvdrw-cd-rw-disc-rewriter-black/9243009.p?skuId=9243009

This specific disk is the same cost as buying Cyberlink Power DVD stand alone.

So you get a reinstall media tool and DVD/Blueray playback on Windows 7 or 8 or 10 for one price.

This drive works fine with all of my dells from 2006 Optiplex GX620 to 2019  G7 7588 laptop.

Works with windows and Ubuntu 18.04.2

http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso

When you install Ubuntu alongside Windows you have the ability to download the ISO files instead of some media creation nonsense.

The link below takes you to a menu on a mac or in linux to download DVD ISO for 32 bit or 64 bit windows 10.  So they offer 1803 and 1903 now.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

The ISO files for 64 bit are larger than 4.7 gigs which means they REQUIRE dual layer DVD to burn an image.

If you need to use standard 4.7 gig DVD -R media you have to go back to 1803 for 64 bit versions.