Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15046 for PC Insider

f14tomcat said:

Glad it went smooth. UUP option is all there is now, as far as anybody can determine. They yanked the .esd method, we believe, starting with 15042.

I gave up with trying to make .iso when UUP downloads started --- too much hassle for me. So far, I'm OK. Just testing the builds as they download. Looking for problems that bear reporting.

Windows Defender issue continues - trying to scan, freezes. Reported to Hub

Not a very good track record for UUP to ISO method, build 15046 being 8th UUP upgrade and second where making ISO is not possible (the other build UUP to ISO did not work was 15025).

I am working on this all the time, will post in UUP to ISO tutorial thread if I find a workaround or to confirm making ISO is not possible.

Kari

Looey said:

I turned UUP off and received an install.esd file. It successfully created an ISO.

Yes, ESD method seems to be working again. Strange.

Update process was a bit rough. At one point the physical machine froze and produced a message asking if I had sound problem.
Got though it OK. Disk cleanup has changed. It scans for previous windows installations on the first pass - no option to clean system files. That's a plus as far as I'm concerned. Since the ESD method has returned I'm going to try to create an ISO file in a VM.

I've just posted this in both ESD to ISO and UUP to ISO tutorial threads:

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PLEASE NOTICE:

Apparently I was wrong saying after last build upgrade (15042) that ESD to ISO method seems to be dead. It is working again, build 15046 upgrade includes a normal install.esd file if UUP has been disabled in registry settings. This time it's UUP to ISO method that does not work; build 15046 upgrade using UUP method is OK and works as it should but UUP to ISO produces an error when writing ISO image.

In case you want an ISO and upgrade is not yet downloaded on your PC, edit the registry to disable UUP as told in this post.

If the upgrade has been downloaded but you have not started the upgrade process yet (not clicked Restart now), you can remove the UUP upgrade files from your PC using Disk Clean-Up, edit registry to disable UUP, restart and let your PC download ESD upgrade instead. Instructions in this post.

In case you have upgraded already and want an ISO image, the only option is to restore previous build, edit registry, remove UUP files as told above and start from scratch letting your previous build to download ESD upgrade.

Kari