It's likely in solid wim format which is readable but not mountable; similar to esd files. You can export the wim to normal dism non-solid format: Code: dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:c:\win10x64\sources\install.wim /sourceindex:1 /destinationimagefile:c:\win10x64\install.wim /compress:max move /y c:\win10x64\install.wim c:\win10x64\sources\
Few annoyances: 1. Need lighter colors for titlebars 2. Cannot copy url of Download in progress in Edge. Cannot even see speed of downloading. Are we considered to be that dumb? 3. There is up to 5 seconds delay in launching start menu when start button is clicked. Sometimes it comes up instantly.
I think you are on the right track here. I moved my exported install.wim to MSMG toolkit v4.5, and rebuilt the wim files. Then it mounted. It may need 2X to work.
That works. But hey!!! the image built by DISM++ is 2,45 GB, the exported one is 3.12GB (using the maximum compress switch) I guess that DISM++ makes a sort of unencrypted ESD although named as WIM.
I like your thinking! hehehe I also like the thought that the idea of privacy is enough to crash any Microsoft product!
Two types of ISO files can be created from DISM++. 1. One is ISO File-Ultra (smaller size, i.e.compressed install.wim and takes less time to create ISO) 2. ISO File (normal one).
dism won't change the format if it's already tagged as using max compression and I think the only difference between the different kinds of wim files is that it's also in solid format. So by first exporting to none and then back to max, it gives the max compress that you want and clears that solid flag. Obviously it does more than that, but it's basically that simple.
I don't know the difference between solid wim and esd with recovery compression. It could be that they are exactly the same with simply a different extension or it could be that they use different compression methods but similar solid file format. One could test and export it to esd and compare sizes. If they're the same, then it's likely very similar or the exact same method.
I tested windows 7 with lots of old files[same file name but different versions], esd didn't care much and successfully reduce size nicely and it make me think,maybe ESD cut files to chunks and compress them and WIM only compress by file
Yes, that's what solid format does. It lets them use data between different files for storage rather than data between same file only.
Yeah the start menu delay is really annoying in this build, i installed Classic Shell instead (far superior then default start menu) and everything works great.