ESD to ISO - Create Bootable ISO from Windows 10 ESD File  

Just a minor thing. I am used to creating ISOs from ESD using the command prompt. And everytime I do, I get an error due to spelling issues because "install.esd" is now "Install.esd" with a capital "I". :)

badrobot said:

Just a minor thing. I am used to creating ISOs from ESD using the command prompt. And everytime I do, I get an error due to spelling issues because "install.esd" is now "Install.esd" with a capital "I". :)

I'll try to fix that in next update.

I have no issues in doing like this:

• Copy the install.esd from $WINDOWS.~BT\Sources folder to my desktop, to folder ESD where I have extracted the tool, replacing possible earlier install.esd file in that folder
• Right click the tool in ESD folder, run as admin

That's it. If the folder where you start the tool only contains one install.esd file, regardless if written with lower or upper case i, it automatically picks that ESD file.

Kari

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The tool and the method in this tutorial work without issues with the latest Insider Build 14367 ESD file, released yesterday.

Kari said:

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The tool and the method in this tutorial work without issues with the latest Insider Build 14367 ESD file, released yesterday.

Works just fine, Kari. I made the ISO and used it to clean install 14367. No hitches. Thanks.

FWIW, I got this error today (build 14371), I vaguely remember it from sometime last year but don't remember its importance.

JohnC said:

FWIW, I got this error today (build 14371), I vaguely remember it from sometime last year but don't remember its importance.

Not a single machine on my network has got the upgrade yet. I can't test before I get the upgrade. In the mean time my recommendation is to copy the ESD to a safe place and let Windows upgrade, or search Internet for an alternative tool.

JohnC said:

FWIW, I got this error today (build 14371), I vaguely remember it from sometime last year but don't remember its importance.

I think it has something to do with a path that's kind of long. Try, say, "c:\Folder".

If it helps, I just create the 14371 ISO without errors.

Code:

============================================================
Creating Setup Media Layout...
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Applying image 1 ("Windows Setup Media") from "N:\ESDtoISO_New\install.esd" to directory "ISOFOLDER\"
Extracting file data: 250 MiB of 250 MiB (100%) done
Done applying WIM image.

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Creating boot.wim file...
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Writing LZX-compressed data using 8 threads
688 MiB of 688 MiB (uncompressed) written (100% done)

Writing LZX-compressed data using 8 threads
79 MiB of 79 MiB (uncompressed) written (100% done)

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Creating install.wim file...
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Writing LZX-compressed data using 8 threads
7176 MiB of 7176 MiB (uncompressed) written (100% done)

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Creating ISO file...
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CDIMAGE 2.53m CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Premastering Utility
Copyright (C) Microsoft, 1993-2007. All rights reserved.
For Microsoft internal use only.


Scanning source tree (500 files in 13 directories)
Scanning source tree complete (984 files in 97 directories)

Computing directory information complete

Image file is 4244144128 bytes (before optimization)

Writing 984 files in 97 directories to en_windows_10_pro_14371_x64_dvd.iso

100% complete

Storage optimization saved 53 files, 17192960 bytes (1% of image)

After optimization, image file is 4229242880 bytes
Space saved because of embedding, sparseness or optimization = 17192960

Done.

Press any key to exit.

Using ESDtoISO download 6/15/16

ESDtoISO.zip

One of the larger ones I've seen lately.....

f14tomcat said:

If it helps, I just create the 14371 ISO without errors.

Yeah, same here. My first machine finally got the upgrade, 14371 Education, ISO was OK and written without errors.

I did it and had not a single problem.