It seems to be like Microsoft has began blocking Home windows ISO downloads that come from Rufus. Rufus is a well-liked open supply device for creating bootable media.
Home windows ISO picture obtain choices have been launched in Rufus three.5, which the developer launched in 2019. The flexibility to obtain Home windows eight, Home windows 10, and Home windows 11 ISO pictures was a welcome addition because it made the method of making of Home windows boot media extra comfortably.
The developer has added a number of options to Rufus within the meantime, which have considerably improved this system for some Home windows directors and customers. Choices to bypass Home windows 11 system necessities throughout Inplace updates and create native accounts as a substitute of Microsoft accounts and completely decline privateness questions have been added in 2022.
Downloads are powered by the Fido script in Rufus and this has labored properly because the characteristic was launched. The script pulled obtain data from Microsoft servers and the downloads have been supplied by Microsoft.
Rufus customers are actually getting error messages when making an attempt to obtain Home windows eight, 10 or 11 utilizing Rufus.
The present error message is displayed after deciding on an working system model within the downloader. It states:
Error: Downloading Home windows ISOs is now not out there as a result of Microsoft has modified their web site to stop this.
Home windows 7 ISO downloads are nonetheless supported and work the identical as earlier than. It is not clear why Microsoft does not additionally block Home windows 7 downloads.
Microsoft nonetheless provides Home windows ISO picture downloads from its personal web site. A go to to the Home windows 11 obtain web page on Microsoft’s web site continues to supply customers with ISO pictures after they request them.
A hyperlink to a thread on GitHub discussing the difficulty is supplied. In accordance with the knowledge printed there, Microsoft made a deliberate change to stop downloads from any supply aside from its personal web site.
The Fido 1.30 changelog additionally confirms the change:
Disable Home windows eight? Home windows 11 ISO Downloads
It appears that evidently Microsoft has deliberately made their obtain servers hostile to our script, and making an attempt to repair it will most likely take a very long time…
The developer is asking for assist to discover a manner round this limitation. Though it’s potential to obtain official ISO pictures from Microsoft, the downloads are restricted to solely sure variations.
With Rufus and Fido, customers may select totally different variations to obtain. One other benefit was that the complete course of was built-in into one program.
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I’ve reached out to Microsoft to study extra concerning the concern, however have but to listen to again.
Now you: have you ever used Rufus prior to now? Why do you suppose Microsoft is obstructing downloads?
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Rufus: Microsoft blocks ISO downloads for Home windows
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It seems to be like Microsoft has began blocking Home windows ISO downloads that come from Rufus.
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