Found an old iso with W10 21H2 and wondered can I update it easily?

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    Found an old iso with W10 21H2 and wondered can I update it easily?


    Evening

    I have a packaged iso which I could use do to a clean install BUT...

    I am fairly sure it has 21H2 on it. Is there a way to check?

    It is an iso I have somehow built which includes some of my other software pre-installed and presumably activated.

    I am probably going to have to spend hours trawling through my previous posts to see if I updated what I was doing as I went along just in case I needed to come back to it and refresh my memory.

    Can't even recall what software I would have used. I know I was playing with SimPLix at some point but don't think I ever succeeded in doing what I wanted to so I probably used MagicBurn or something.

    Is there a way to find out easily which programme created the iso?
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    Is there a way to find out easily which programme created the iso?
    look at the properties with an iso handler - if you dont already have an iso handler anyburn free version will do

    Found an old iso with W10 21H2 and wondered can I update it easily?-winiso-properties-label.jpg


    I am fairly sure it has 21H2 on it. Is there a way to check?
    extract the install.wim and query it - or mount the iso and query the install.wim with wimlib or dism or similar

    Found an old iso with W10 21H2 and wondered can I update it easily?-wimlib-wiminfo.jpg
    Last edited by SIW2; 20 May 2023 at 11:43.
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    Look in tutorials section how to use dism commands.
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    Hello @Rhothgar,

    cereberus said:
    Look in tutorials section how to use dism commands.
    Further to the above I found this for you > See Full Details about a Windows 10 ISO file or USB

    Also, have a look at the Related Tutorials at the BOTTOM of the above Tutorial [ there are a few ], as they may also be related.

    I hope this helps.
    Last edited by Paul Black; 20 May 2023 at 06:50.
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    Is the iso extracted to a USB drive or it's just a single iso file?

    The Win 10 21h2 is almost 2 years old.
    Why don't you built a Win 10 22h2 USB drive or download a Win 10 22h2 iso file using MCT ?
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  6. Posts : 58
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    OK. Only just got back to this.

    Anyburn suggested by SIW2 wouldn't give me any application information. I do have ImgBurn installed on this PC so I assume it was that that wrote the iso.

    Not been able to query the install.wim as yet but will drop onto that in a moment using Paul Black's info he posted.

    In reply to MegaHertz, it is a single .iso file stored within a folder on a USB drive so it wouldn't need burning to a DVD (and it's probably too big for that at 9.8Gb) or will need extracting to a clean formatted USB of suitable size.

    I do want 22H2 but I have other programmes within this ISO which is why it is 9.8Gb. I built it originally to be able to do a fast clean install of the mainstay applications I use to minimise downtime if the worst happened.
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    Can imgburn create efi bootable isos ?

    Found an old iso with W10 21H2 and wondered can I update it easily?-anyburn-properties.jpg

    Found an old iso with W10 21H2 and wondered can I update it easily?-anyburn-properties1jpg.jpg
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  8. Posts : 58
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    Paul Black said:
    Hello @Rhothgar,



    Further to the above I found this for you > See Full Details about a Windows 10 ISO file or USB

    Also, have a look at the Related Tutorials at the BOTTOM of the above Tutorial [ there are a few ], as they may also be related.

    I hope this helps.
    That was fun. Couldn't open elevated cmd prompt.

    Anyway, I'm in there now. Not sure DISM command will work when you have this as a path?

    Found an old iso with W10 21H2 and wondered can I update it easily?-iso.jpg

    Even tried copying Test.iso to D:\ but I have not got enough disk space! My root drive only has 11.6Gb left also so not sure I want to fill that anymore. Although I have not started that process...

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    SIW2 said:
    Can imgburn create efi bootable isos ?
    Will try this now as couldn't get DISM to work. I'm not readily familiar with manipulating iso
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    Rhothgar said:
    OK. Only just got back to this.

    Anyburn suggested by SIW2 wouldn't give me any application information. I do have ImgBurn installed on this PC so I assume it was that that wrote the iso.

    Not been able to query the install.wim as yet but will drop onto that in a moment using Paul Black's info he posted.

    In reply to MegaHertz, it is a single .iso file stored within a folder on a USB drive so it wouldn't need burning to a DVD (and it's probably too big for that at 9.8Gb) or will need extracting to a clean formatted USB of suitable size.

    I do want 22H2 but I have other programmes within this ISO which is why it is 9.8Gb. I built it originally to be able to do a fast clean install of the mainstay applications I use to minimise downtime if the worst happened.
    one way might be to apply the wim to a spare partition, boot into it, update/upgrade install to 22h2 and then capture the partition into a new install.wim.
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  10. Posts : 58
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    SIW2 said:
    Can imgburn create efi bootable isos ?
    I think my memory has burnt out. About 10 minutes ago, I readily stumbled upon that window in ImgBurn.

    Can I find it now? NO!

    Found an old iso with W10 21H2 and wondered can I update it easily?-imgburn.jpg

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    SIW2 said:
    one way might be to apply the wim to a spare partition, boot into it, update/upgrade install to 22h2 and then capture the partition into a new install.wim.
    I'm not entirely sure why I have so many different Windows iso on one USB. I think it was to save them as a repository in one place.

    But now I have to read up on how to do what you are telling me to do. It's all good fun especially when you're stressed and anxious about it.
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