The command script runs the relevant DISM command-line to convert or extract the ESD file(s) to WIM. The next screen will display the number of indexes (with the corresponding editions) in the WIM file.
slipstream) with the original setup disk.
You’ll need to convert install.esd to install.wim in the Windows source to integrate updates and drivers (a.k.a. So you need to convert the ESD file to a WIM file to service the image or deploy it. For instance, it can’t be deployed using a WDS server. But the ESD image format is read-only and thus has drawbacks. The install.wim has given way to install.esd, an Electronic Software Download (ESD) file format, due to its high compression ratio.ĮSD is a highly compressed format whose file size comes around 80% compared to a WIM image. However, when you download Windows 10 using the Media Creation Tool or the Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant, you may find install.esd instead of install.wim. For example, you can add or remove a device driver from an offline image.
The DISM tool (Deployment Image Service and Management Tool) can perform servicing tasks on a WIM file. The Windows Imaging Format (WIM) is a file-based disk image format developed by Microsoft to help deploy Windows operating system.
