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

johngalt · 10 Nov 2016

Gotcha. I will grab it from another PC then.

meebers · 11 Nov 2016

Is there an up to date esd to iso tool. I tried 14965 .esd and a much earlier .esd both failed before completion. tx

f14tomcat · 11 Nov 2016

meebers said:

Is there an up to date esd to iso tool. I tried 14965 .esd and a much earlier .esd both failed before completion. tx

Grab a fresh copy from post #1. Completely delete the one you have before unzipping it.

Remember to run the batch file as Administrator.

Kari · 11 Nov 2016

Information

A reminder:

The tool has been updated on June 15^th 2016. Check the ESDtoISO folder's date on your computer, it shows the day you have extracted the downloaded ZIP file. In case the date is older than June 15^th please delete it from your PC simply by deleting the whole ESDtoISO folder and download the updated tool.

Current tool works with every build starting from 10586. Download link in the first post (step 1.3).

meebers · 11 Nov 2016

Kari said:

Information

A reminder:

The tool has been updated on June 15^th 2016. Check the ESDtoISO folder's date on your computer, it shows the day you have extracted the downloaded ZIP file. In case the date is older than June 15^th please delete it from your PC simply by deleting the whole ESDtoISO folder and download the updated tool.

Current tool works with every build starting from 10586. Download link in the first post (step 1.3).

Tx F14 and Kari. The "fresh" d/l worked as it always has. It is dated june15, deleted previous files, .iso has been created without issue.

Kari · 11 Nov 2016

meebers said:

Tx F14 and Kari. The "fresh" d/l worked as it always has. It is dated june15, deleted previous files, .iso has been created without issue.

Good to hear, thanks for coming back to tell about it.

Berton · 11 Nov 2016

The ESD file I saved yesterday to create the ISO is actually 10.0.14393.0 and dated July 15, 2016. Lots of updating needed to get it to 14393.447, but the process works fine once the file is COPIED to another location [the Desktop, another drive/partition, etc.] before the Restart so it doesn't get automatically deleted.

I downloaded the ESDtoISO file yesterday and the files inside ESDtoISO (Build 10158 and later).zip are dated 7/1/2015.

Kari · 11 Nov 2016

Berton said:

I downloaded the ESDtoISO file yesterday and the files inside ESDtoISO (Build 10158 and later).zip are dated 7/1/2015.

The file ESDtoISO (Build 10158 and later).zip was deleted from my OneDrive January or February this year and has not been available for download since that. I deleted it when it was no longer needed (around and a bit after 1511 release there was need for two different versions). It is terribly outdated and should not be used anymore.

At the moment there's only one downloadable tool, which I updated in June:

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f14tomcat · 11 Nov 2016

meebers said:

Tx F14 and Kari. The "fresh" d/l worked as it always has. It is dated june15, deleted previous files, .iso has been created without issue.

Glad to hear, @meebers. :)

johngalt · 15 Nov 2016

Kari said:

A few quotes from Insider Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14965 for PC and Mobile - Windows 10 Forums thread:

Kari said:

Information

A reminder:

The tool has been updated on June 15^th 2016. Check the ESDtoISO folder's date on your computer, it shows the day you have extracted the downloaded ZIP file. In case the date is older than June 15^th please delete it from your PC simply by deleting the whole ESDtoISO folder and download the updated tool.

Current tool works with every build starting from 10586. Download link in the first post (step 1.3).

I just now updated my tool as well. I noticed that it now does not writ the .ISO filename as it used to. Interesting.