How to Convert .ESD to .WIM File on Windows 10
The first thing you need to do is to open your File Explorer. Go to C: drive and create a folder Win10 and drop all files from Windows 10 ISO image into it.
When you copied all files, go to Sources, find install.esd and make a copy of this file.
Now create another folder on your C: drive – name it ESD. Paste install.esd file into this folder.
The next thing you need to do is to open Command Prompt as Administrator. We need to get into folder we have just created. Type in:
Then we need to clear it out:
Each edition of the OS is stored in the file install.esd and has assigned serial number – an index (index 1, 2, 3, 4 ..), which can be viewed using the DISM tool. You can get information about your ESD file using the following command:
As you can see, in the install.esd archive there is an image of 4 versions of Windows 10 with the indexes: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.16299.15
Details for image : install.esd
Index: 1
Name: Windows 10 Pro
Description: Windows 10 Pro
Size: 15,103,101,178 bytes
Index: 2
Name: Windows 10 Home
Description: Windows 10 Home
Size: 14,917,903,101 bytes
Index: 3
Name: Windows 10 Home Single Language
Description: Windows 10 Home Single Language
Size: 14,917,646,651 bytes
Index: 4
Name: Windows 10 Education
Description: Windows 10 Education
Size: 14,320,369,327 bytes
The operation completed successfully.
Find index number that you need (we are choosing Index 1 because it is a PRO version).
Let’s go ahead and run command:
Image exporting is started and this process can take a long time. Conversion is quite a resource-intensive operation, during which the processor and memory of your computer will be heavily loaded.
Once ESD conversion is completed, you can copy your new WIM image file and then go to Win10 original folder, then to Sources and replace install.esd file.
The resulting install.wim file can be mounted by the DISM utility, and you can use it to create your own Windows assemblies.
That’s it! Hope this was useful for you!
(Article Source: https://theitbros.com/convert-windows-esd-file-to-windows-wim-file/)
When you copied all files, go to Sources, find install.esd and make a copy of this file.
Now create another folder on your C: drive – name it ESD. Paste install.esd file into this folder.
The next thing you need to do is to open Command Prompt as Administrator. We need to get into folder we have just created. Type in:
cd c:\esd
Then we need to clear it out:
cls
Each edition of the OS is stored in the file install.esd and has assigned serial number – an index (index 1, 2, 3, 4 ..), which can be viewed using the DISM tool. You can get information about your ESD file using the following command:
dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:install.esd
As you can see, in the install.esd archive there is an image of 4 versions of Windows 10 with the indexes: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.16299.15
Details for image : install.esd
Index: 1
Name: Windows 10 Pro
Description: Windows 10 Pro
Size: 15,103,101,178 bytes
Index: 2
Name: Windows 10 Home
Description: Windows 10 Home
Size: 14,917,903,101 bytes
Index: 3
Name: Windows 10 Home Single Language
Description: Windows 10 Home Single Language
Size: 14,917,646,651 bytes
Index: 4
Name: Windows 10 Education
Description: Windows 10 Education
Size: 14,320,369,327 bytes
The operation completed successfully.
Find index number that you need (we are choosing Index 1 because it is a PRO version).
Let’s go ahead and run command:
dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:install.esd /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:install.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity
Image exporting is started and this process can take a long time. Conversion is quite a resource-intensive operation, during which the processor and memory of your computer will be heavily loaded.
Once ESD conversion is completed, you can copy your new WIM image file and then go to Win10 original folder, then to Sources and replace install.esd file.
The resulting install.wim file can be mounted by the DISM utility, and you can use it to create your own Windows assemblies.
That’s it! Hope this was useful for you!
(Article Source: https://theitbros.com/convert-windows-esd-file-to-windows-wim-file/)
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