Converting the install.wim in install.esd file

Hi

Using only the Microsoft utilities, how do I convert the install.wim to install.esd file?

Thanks

Bye

Google gets lots of hits for doing this: how do I convert the install.wim to install.esd file?

View topic - Any difference between WIM and ESD? - BetaArchive

"The proper DISM command would be:

DISM /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:[path]\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:[path]\install.esd /compress:recovery /CheckIntegrity


Now, if you don't have over 8GB of memory installed, or a processor above or equivalent to a 2.2Ghz Quad Core, you're best bet is to search for and download the tool "ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD"." (i found it on a chinese site)

extract ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-dism.7z then drop install.wim into ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-dism folder and right click at convert.cmd, then choise 1 and it's time to wait.
(i am currently testing all this so i am not sure if it will work)
Edit: Works like charm, just installed my fresh windows using this method.

TryHard said:

I really wish you had read what google shows before posting this.... we are not looking for ESD to WIM answers.

Yeah - search engines do this sort of stuff all the time - they ignore words like 'to' in the search.

PastPEXPilot said:

Your DISM suggestion looks like one needs a .wmi file for Install... Well all my MS win 10 build 10586-164 doesn't have a .wmi in sight. Correct me if I am wrong, please. I would love to find a .wmi file, I really, really would. In fact I would pay cold cash (void where prohibited or lack of written contract). All I have found in all my media creation downloads is a lousy .esd file and I can't take it anymore.

Chinese converter can't be any worse then the last 5 Russian, USA, and Chech ones I have tried- Anyway, my problem is I don;t have a .wim file anywhere in my downloaded ESD-ISO, Mounted ISO, or USB. I have only an Install.esd which refuses to dycrypt or convert to a wmi with hidden files visible, invisible, or missing. I am using build 10586-164 directly from MS. Is there any reason to suspect they re-encrypted the .esd file to obsolete all of tutorials and converters out there in the ether or vertualness, or cybervillage, whatever?

Any additional help would be a help for my eyes, and brain, both of which are in need of an exam.

PastPEXPilot

The TechBench version has install.WIM if that's what you're after: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/techbench

BTW, welcome to TenForums, PastPEXPilot.:)