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I might of course be wrong, wouldn't be the first time. Please provide an official Microsoft download link to download Insider builds as ESD file. I am unable to find any.
You'll provide URL to an official download site, I'll update the tutorial. Deal?
First, as is very clearly told in tutorial it is and was only intended to create an ISO image from Insider build upgrade downloaded with Windows Update as an ESD file, not for any other ESD conversion. Second, only admins and mods can delete tutorials, I can't do it even if I wanted to (I don't!). Third, when Microsoft switched to UUP upgrade and finished offering ESD upgrades and UUPtoISO tutorial was published, I added the below warning in ESD to ISO tutorial:
WarningAs Microsoft has changed the upgrade method from ESD based upgrade to a UUP based, the method told in this tutorial does not work anymore with 15xxx and later builds.
Please see UUP to ISO tutorial for a working method: UUP to ISO - Create Bootable ISO from Windows 10 Build Upgrade Files Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials
If that's not OK for you, if you have any issues with the above, please contact site owner and administrator @z3r010 requesting old tutorial to be deleted.
Kari
I downloaded an ISO of what i thought was 16299.15 well sure enough it was but it was windows 10 S
my laptop cant boot to usb or DVD now I am screwed i tried recovery rebooting to a cmd prompt and then running setup by i get the incompatible msg b/c u cant run exe within windows 10 S.
the only way to around this is to upgrade windows 10 pro but i don't have a genuine 10 pro key
anyone know away around this??
i can get to bios but changing the boot order to dvd or usb. still wont boot
windows 10 s is the biggest piece of garbage ever no command prompt no nothing
i wonder if booting to a pe via recovery command prompt and formatting then running setup would work i just cant do it till tomorrow cause i need at least internet to do some banking
There is a lot you can NOT do with an image while it's compressed as ESD (Solid compression). You can for instance not update files contained within it without uncompressing the whole ESD before applying updates. While on .WIM you can just mount (this does NOT decompress the image) the image and make any modifications on the fly.
While ESD provide better compression because it uses solid compression, this format is useful for software delivery, but for servicing it's totally useless as is. For servicing WIM is the way to go, but your files will be a bit bigger.
Though we can download anything we want from anywhere we want, we always have to consider the legal aspect of things.
NO, nothing should be deleted, it could be archived or moved somewhere safe though. Even very old and obsolete information can be extremely useful 30 years later. It annoys the crap out of me when perfectly good information disappear from the internet.
Exactly!