How to convert ESD files to WIM files

THANK YOU VERY MUCH THAT HELPED ME ALOT😌

The WIM ended up about 1.6 times bigger than the ESD and I don't know of any way to compress the WIM back to a size somewhere near the size of the original ESD. I am sure it's possible, because I have converted Windows 10 ESD to WIM and it didn't balloon up in size like this one does. 🤔

ESD to WIM:
dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:C:\11temp\sources\install.esd /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:C:\11temp\sources\install.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity

WIM to ESD:
dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:C:\11temp\sources\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:C:\11temp\sources\install.esd /Compress:recovery /CheckIntegrity

Mine keeps saying "The specified buffer contains ill-formed data" can u help me please

big thank you are wonderfull😍

Do I add this .wim file back into the folder with the contents of the ISO?

Thanks for such a clean and easy video!

Thanks mate. Needed this step. Cheers

damn, thanks for the help

Awesome, greatly appreciated.

Thx a lot

EZ

thank you so much

Thx.

Unfortunately this did not work for. Error 5, access is denied

thank you so much brother

@Danny Moran The Windows 10 installation ISO file is a bit too large to fit on a 4.7GB DVD (up 100 MB). Maybe there is a way to remove some of the unneeded windows versions from install.esd (or to use a higher compression ratio) file to fit it on to a single layer DVD?

How to export all index

Thanks bro!!!

I wrote a simple PowerShell script to do that.

indexnum = (Get-WindowsImage -ImagePath "PathToInstall.esd").Count


for ($num = 1; $num -le $indexnum; $num++) {

Export-WindowsImage -SourceImagePath "PathToInstall.esd" -SourceIndex $num -DestinationImagePath "PathToInstall.wim" -CompressionType max -CheckIntegrity

Start-Sleep 5 # Wait for DISM to finish
}

Hi Danny, thanks a lot...it work for me but only in my local machine. In the server (Windows Server 2008) i have a issue to execute the commands but i think is because the Powershell from Windows Server 2008 dont recognize the commands since this OS is too old rsrsrs Another question, can i generate this file .wim in my local machine and export to my Server 2008 to import on MDT?