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Instructions to to convert Windows 10 build 10240 install.esd in to ISO, for download go to http://www.windoblog.com/convert-windows-10-esd-to-iso/. Either format WIM or ESD can contain multiple images, of which are specified by index number. While the ESD2WIM script shows these indexes in your screenshots, the same can be seen from a command/powershell terminal using DISM. The open source Windows Imaging (WIM) library. Main page; Downloads; Forums; Browse source; Compression algorithms; Downloads. X64 Esd2wim 64 bit download - x64 - X 64-bit Download - x64-bit download - freeware, shareware and software downloads. 업데이트 날짜: 2009년 10월. 적용 대상: Windows 7.
Last updated on August 13th, 2018
In previous tutorials I mentioned the way to convert 'Install.ESD' to 'Install.WIM' and how to extract an 'install.wim' image file, in order to get the correct install.wim Windows image to repair Windows 10. In this tutorial you'll find detailed instructions to convert install.wim to install.esd, in order to use it with DISM to repair Windows or to put it in a USB drive to install Windows.
This tutorial contains several methods to export install.esd from install.wim or vice versa (install.wim from install.esd) in Windows 10/8/8.1.
How to convert install.WIM to install.ESD or install.ESD to install.WIM.
Method 1. Convert install.wim to install.esd with DISM.
Method 2. Export INSTALL.ESD from INSTALL.WIM with ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-v2
Method 3. Extract Install.WIM to Install.ESD with WinReducer ES-WIM converter.
Method 4. Convert Install.WIM to Install.ESD with NLITE.
Method 1. Convert install.wim to install.esd with DISM.
The first method to convert install.wim to esd is, by using the DISM tool.
1. Attach or mount* the Windows installation media on your system if you want to convert install.wim to install.esd from a Windows ISO image, or just copy the install.wim image to the root folder of drive C:.
* Note: If you are using Windows 8/8.1, then read this article on: How to mount ISO files.
2. Right click at Start menu and select Command Prompt (Admin).
3. Then type the following command and press Enter, in order to find which images the install.wim file contains *
3. Then type the following command and press Enter, in order to find which images the install.wim file contains *
- dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:X:FullImagePathinstall.wim
* Note: Change the 'X' drive letter and the full image path (location) of the install.wim (or the 'install.esd') file that you want to convent to ESD (or WIM). At this example we want to extract the install.wim file from a Windows installation media attached at drive D:, so the command will be:
- dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:D:sourcesinstall.wim
4. According to the Windows version that you want to extract/convert to .esd, take note of the index number. *
* e.g.: At the screenshot below, the Windows 10 Home Edition has the Index number '3'.
5. Then give the command below to convert the install.wim file to install.esd.*
- dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:'X:FullImagePathinstall.wim' /SourceIndex:IndexNumber /DestinationImageFile:'C:install.esd' /Compress:recovery /CheckIntegrity
* Note: At the above command don't forget to change the location (Full Image path) of the install.wim file and the IndexNumber of the Windows version that you want to extract according your case. If the source install.wim file contains only one version of Windows then the Index number is '1'.
e.g. For this example we want to extract the Windows 10 Home edition (Index number=3), so the command will be:
- dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:'D:sourcesinstall.wim' /SourceIndex:3 /DestinationImageFile:'C:install.esd' /Compress:recovery /CheckIntegrity
6. When the process is completed you should find the install.esd image file on the root folder of drive C: (C:install.esd).
Method 2. Export INSTALL.ESD from INSTALL.WIM with ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-v2.
The second tool to convert install.wim to esd is the ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD converter.
1. Copy the 'install.wim' (or the 'install.esd') file to the root folder of drive C:.
2. Download ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD converter for here.
3. Extract the compressed 'ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-v2.zip' file.
4. From the extracted folder right click at 'ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD' and select Run as administrator.
2. Download ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD converter for here.
3. Extract the compressed 'ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-v2.zip' file.
4. From the extracted folder right click at 'ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD' and select Run as administrator.
5. Then type the full path of the 'install.wim' file. (e.g. 'C:install.wim')
6. From the listed export options, type the corresponding option number according the index or indexes that you want to export. *
* e.g. If the install.wim file contains multiple Windows versions and you want to export only the one of them, type '3'.
7. Then type the Index number of the Windows version that you want to export and press Enter. *
*e.g. For Windows 10 Home, type '3' and press Enter.
8. Finally wait until the extraction completed. When this done, you can find the install.esd file in the ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-v2 folder.
Method 3. Extract Install.WIM to Install.ESD with WinReducer ES-WIM converter.
The third method to extract an install.wim file to Install.ESD, or vice versa, is by using the WinReducer ES-WIM converter.
1. Copy the 'install.wim' (or the 'install.esd') file to the root folder of drive C:.
2. Download WinReducer ES-WIM converter.
3. Extract the 'winreducereswimconverter.zip' file.
4. Open the extracted folder and double click at 'WinReducerESWimConverter.exe'
5. If you have a license select YES otherwise click NO.
2. Download WinReducer ES-WIM converter.
3. Extract the 'winreducereswimconverter.zip' file.
4. Open the extracted folder and double click at 'WinReducerESWimConverter.exe'
5. If you have a license select YES otherwise click NO.
6. Click OK at Configuration Error message.
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7. Click Software installation.
8. Set to ON the 7zip, Dism, oscdimg & SetACL and then click Download.
9. When the download is completed, choose OK and then click NO at 'Activate license' window.
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10. At WinReduser ES –WIM converter window, click Open and select the install.wim file that you want to convert to ESD
11. After selecting the WIM file, wait a few seconds until the program read the WIM file.
12. When this done, click the WIM –> ESD option and then select which version of Windows you want to extract from the WIM file.
12. When this done, click the WIM –> ESD option and then select which version of Windows you want to extract from the WIM file.
13. Finally click Convert.
14. Finally wait until the extraction completed. When this done, you can find the install.esd file on the rood folder of drive C: (C:install.esd).
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Method 4. Convert Install.WIM to Install.ESD with NLITE.
The final method to export install.wim to install.esd is by using the NTLite utility. *
* Note: Keep in mind that NTLITE program use many resources to make the conversion.
1. Download and install NTLITE on you system.
2. Launch NTLITE, select the Free license and click OK.
2. Launch NTLITE, select the Free license and click OK.
3. Copy the 'install.wim' (or the 'install.esd') file that you want to convert to the root folder of drive C:.
4. At Image tab: Click the small arrow at the Add button and select Image file (WIM, ESD, SWM).
5. Select the install.wim file that you convert to esd and click Open.
6. Carefully read the warning message and click OK. *
* Note: If you want to create a bootable ISO image after the extraction, you must copy the entire Windows setup DVD to a folder on your local disk.
7. At NLITE you will see all Windows versions that the install.wim file contains. Right click at the version that you want to convert to ESD or to WIM and select Export > ESD (or WIM).
8. Click OK at the next window
9. Then specify a location for the install.esd file and click Save.
10. Finally wait until the extraction completed.
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Because Apple doesn't support NTFS but Linux does and Microsoft has gotten their WIM really fat in newer versions (but don't nicely split it into pieces for you to keep them under 4GB so they could fit on a FAT32 drive), we have do some funcrazy workarounds.
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Both of these are close, one isn't optimal because it extracts from the iso rather than loop mounting. The other used to be valid but once the install.wim got over 4GB it started failing.
Extra credit notes about DISM/WIM/ESD
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/the-problems-between-installwim-and-installesd-and/339846cc-d4e8-4f76-a31c-1d4d7bd21371JW0914 Replied on March 17, 2016'Windows 10 TP has both WIM and ESD install.xxx files for their installation. For example my Build 9841 had install.wim the later build,Windows10_TechnicalPreview_x64_EN-GB_10041 has install.esd. This change may be the reason behind some fails.
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Not all ESD files can be Decrypted by decrypt.cmd tool. This maybe becuase the ESD doesn't contain a Boot Image, just files. Possibly, I'm not sure. So some ESD updates that have failed to decrypt to ISO may not be Boot type.'
ESD images are not encrypted, however it's been repeated so often that ESD's are, most now believe they are encrypted. ESD is an acronym for Electronic Software Download, with ESD using a far better compression algorithm in comparison to WIM.
ESD images are created using the /compress:recovery flag.'ESD file without boot:
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With only 1 index, this ESD file will not create a bootable ISO. It will also create an error if used with decrypt'
Boot images have no correlation to WIMs or ESD images, as WIM and ESD images are just a compression container created by Microsoft for Windows, albeit an extremely smart and efficient compression container. Either can be extracted [applied], captured, or exported to the other utilizing DISM.
Bootable WIM/ESD images must be either WinPE/WinRE images or WIMboot images only and must utilize the /bootable or /WIMboot flag during the capture process. Either format [WIM or ESD] can contain multiple images, of which are specified by index number. While the ESD2WIM script shows these indexes in your screenshots, the same can be seen from a command/powershell terminal using DISM.
Bootable WIM/ESD images must be either WinPE/WinRE images or WIMboot images only and must utilize the /bootable or /WIMboot flag during the capture process. Either format [WIM or ESD] can contain multiple images, of which are specified by index number. While the ESD2WIM script shows these indexes in your screenshots, the same can be seen from a command/powershell terminal using DISM.
WIM/ESD image info can be viewed with: dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile: or dism /get-imageinfo /imagefile:One can also specify index # for info about a specified index via adding: /index:X where 'x' is the index #It's recommended to utilize the ESD2WIM script because it's written in such a way the export process doesn't consumer 90 - 100% of system resources during the export, however the same can be accomplished using DISM in any admin command/powershell terminal.'ESD file with boot:Image
This ESD file show in the above ESD<>WIM converter shows 4 indexes. This ESD file will create a bootable ISO.'
All Windows install ESDs contain 4 images [indexes]: Windows Setup, WinPE, and the base Windows image x2 (x86 & x64). Windows Setup is self explanatory, as is WinPE, with the two base images being the actual OS that's extracted to the system partition depending on the specified architecture.
In order to create a bootable install media, one would need to extract the index for Windows Setup, and if one only needs to update the actual install WIM, the specific base image can be extracted to replace the install.wim in the Sources directory.WIM/ESD images are efficient, as multiple images can be combined into a single image, with same files only being copied once into the the exported WIM. This allows the exported WIM to contain 4 images that all utilize the same files, yet only 1 copy of the file would be copied into the exported WIM, thereby severely reducing the size of the exported WIM.
For example, I have 3 WIM backups of my system partition, a base image of 32GB, an intermediate backup of 41GB, and a final restore image of 52GB. By combining all three into a single exported WIM, the final exported WIM size is just over 52GB and contains all three images as Index 1, Index 2, and Index 3.When exporting WIMs, one must ensure all were created using the same compression flag (none, fast, max, or recovery), as you can only combine WIM/ESD images into an exported image if they are all the same compression type.
Again, ESD's are not encrypted files... if they were, you wouldn't be able to decrypt them.
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DISM is what the script uses, and the script's commands can be viewed by opening in a notepad.
To export an ESD to WIM:
dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:z:install.esd /SourceIndex:3 /DestinationImageFile:z:install.wim /DestinationName:'Windows 10 x64 Install Image' /compress:max /checkintegrityTo export a WIM to ESD:
dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:z:install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:z:install.esd /DestinationName:'Windows 10 x64 Install Image' /compress:recovery /checkintegrityMany of the ESD2WIM or vice versa scripts were written after Windows 8 was released, as imagex was depreciated and few knew it's functionality had been folded into DISM. There's nothing wrong with utilizing one script or another to export the images, however there's a lot of misinformation and mis-conclusions occurring regarding ESDs and WIMs that only make it more difficult for users not familiar with them to garnish the correct info.
If using a script is easier or more convenient to convert the two for a user, they should use the script. I've never utilized the 'decrypter' script (I dislike the name because it implies ESDs are encrypted and they're not, thereby feeding the misinformation), however I have used the ESD2WIM script and I do know that script was written in such a way to ensure no more than 50% of system resources are utilized for the export, as exporting to/from ESD is extremely resource intensive. My only point is to ensure the correct info is available.
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One can also use the export command to combine multiple WIM files into a single WIM or ESD, with each additional image being assigned an index # in sequential order (1, 2, 3. etc)Due to the efficiency of WIM/ESD, if the same file exists in 2 or more images, it's only copied once into the exported WIM. This allows for significantly smaller image files.