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

Kari... Great Tutorial! Works easy and quickly. One question (cause I'm paranoid!!!), is there some way, something to check to make sure I just burned build 9860 other than doing an install? Just a sanity check. Thanks.

f14tomcat said:

Kari... Great Tutorial! Works easy and quickly. One question (cause I'm paranoid!!!), is there some way, something to check to make sure I just burned build 9860 other than doing an install? Just a sanity check. Thanks.

You might could open the iso file with something like WinRAR and have a look at it?

Charlie said:

f14tomcat said:

Kari... Great Tutorial! Works easy and quickly. One question (cause I'm paranoid!!!), is there some way, something to check to make sure I just burned build 9860 other than doing an install? Just a sanity check. Thanks.

You might could open the iso file with something like WinRAR and have a look at it?

Charlie, I did pop it open with 7-zip, but I'm not sure where or what to look at! Properties/details of files don't say anything about version #.

@ tomcat:
right click on the setup.exe and choose properties then details tab, Product version should read 6.4.9860.0

Edwin said:

@ tomcat:
right click on the setup.exe and choose properties then details tab, Product version should read 6.4.9860.0

Bingo! Thanks, Edwin!

Can the DVD I burned be used to do a "repair" install (in-place upgrade) like I'm used to on win 7?

Thanks again, you earned a rep!

f14tomcat said:

Can the DVD I burned be used to do a "repair" install (in-place upgrade) like I'm used to on win 7?

You could but I would suggest a clean install every time, it's probably faster and less problematic. Better yet, take an image backup when you've got the OS tweaked just the way you want it.

f14tomcat said:

Edwin said:

@ tomcat:
right click on the setup.exe and choose properties then details tab, Product version should read 6.4.9860.0

Bingo! Thanks, Edwin!

Can the DVD I burned be used to do a "repair" install (in-place upgrade) like I'm used to on win 7?

Thanks again, you earned a rep!

Yes its just like a 7 install. I tried to do upgrade with it but did not have enough space. The partition I was trying to upgrade was 30GB and 17GB of that was used by the 10TP. So I went ahead and did the clean install . Glad I did because the upgrade that I did on my laptop runs slow and is buggie. Good luck Charlie

Kari said:

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Somehow I feel now I need to make this absolutely clear: I did not try to take credits for the idea nor the original esd-decrypter-v3 script. Credits where they belong.

Kari

Collaboration!
You do great work, someone has to collect the information, organize it, grab snapshots, and create the tutorials.

I will try this soon, just acquired a 'new' machine and I plan to dual boot Win7 and Win10 to get that real hardware experience I'm not getting with Hyper-V.

I came across this while looking for something - who knows what I was looking for though.
Make an ISO for Windows 10 9860 | Chris123NT's Blog

Highlighting reasons for posting this information:

Download ESD and convert to ISO
-> https://mega.co.nz/#F!8c1Q3KII!2NDU8Wf1W7lKAqUMjAp0fQ

EDIT: Updated link above to new 4c version of tool 10/23/14
-> http://www.chris123nt.com/ESDTool/esd-decrypter-v4c.7z

I took a cursory look at the two compressed folders - yours has 36 files dated 2014, Chris's has 26 files dated 2014. It was only a quick look.

Just wanted to let you know after seeing v3 in your post.

Bill
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