BMR Media Creator 26.1 supported platforms, requirements and known issues

This page provides the following information for the BMR Media Creator:

• Supported operating systems

• System requirements

• Required free space

• Known issues

The BMR Media Creator is used to create recovery media for recovering Window servers to hardware or virtual machines. For more information, see Recovering a Windows server to hardware or to a virtual machine.

Supported operating systems

The BMR Media Creator is supported on the following Microsoft Windows 64-bit operating systems:

• Windows Server 2025

• Windows Server 2022

• Windows Server 2019

• Windows Server 2016

• Windows 11, version 25H2

• Windows 10, version 22H2

System requirements

The following software components must be installed on the system where you run BMR Media Creator:

• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) and the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE). You must create separate recovery media for restoring systems with Windows Server 2022, Windows 11, and later versions, and for restoring systems with Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, and Windows 10. As shown in the following table, the required Windows ADK and Windows PE version depends on the operating system versions that you want to restore.

  Operating systems to restore	Required Windows ADK and PE version
  Windows Server 2022, Windows 11, and later versions	10.1.26100.2454
  Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, and Windows 10	10.1.17134

  Before creating recovery media, you must uninstall any other Windows ADK and PE version and install the required version. You can download Windows ADK and Windows PE from Microsoft and install them before running the BMR Media Creator, or when you run the BMR Media Creator.

• .NET Framework 4.8 must be installed on the machine where you run the BMR Media Creator. If .NET Framework 4.8 is not present on the machine where you install BMC, you will be prompted to install it.

Required free space

The system where you run BMR Media Creator must have the following free space:

• At least 100 MB of free disk space for BMC installation

• At least 7 GB of free disk space for installing Windows ADK and Windows PE

• At least 500 MB of free disk space for creating an ISO file

The system drive requires free space to uncompress the packages for installation. The environment variables TEMP and TMP use %USERPROFILE% by default. Make sure that %USERPROFILE% points to a drive that has sufficient temporary space.

Known issues

• When you try to create recovery media, the process sometimes fails with an "Error code:1" message. This can occur due to the antivirus program on the computer where you are running the BMR Media Creator.
  WORKAROUND: Either run the BMR Media Creator on a computer with a different antivirus program, or uninstall and then reinstall Windows ADK, disable the antivirus program, and run the BMR Media Creator again.

• When creating recovery media using the BMR Media Creator, an Insufficient memory error can occur if you try to add a driver with a long path and file name.