ESD <> WIM Conversion batch

One (x86 pro vl)

 

Added this back to the list of tools I use because the WIM -> ESD converter and reverse is truly awesome to have.

 

wimlib-1.7.4

Update, wimlib-1.7.4 is out:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wimlib/files/
changelog:

Spoiler

The Windows binary distribution no longer contains third party DLLs.
These dependencies are instead compiled directly into the libwim DLL.




Added more fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM.




Extracting files to a Windows PE in-memory filesystem no longer fails if
the target files do not yet exist.




Improved the performance of XPRESS compression and LZMS decompression.




Enabled SSSE3 accelerated SHA-1 computation in x86_64 Windows builds.
It will automatically be faster on newer Intel and AMD processors.




Removed the --with-imagex-progname and --enable-more-assertions
configure options.

 

can u add option to deploy to drive pls

 

Code:

File: ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-wimlib-2.7z
 MD5: 60c2d8b78b48fc2f3ab850d5eac3beca
SHA1: db0d0c8755b50fd1e5da5fdbad8b8354180840c2

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- Updated wimlib-imagex to latest beta
- Added option for applying image to another drive

 

wimlib-1.8.0-BETA4

according to NEWS.txt, it now provide the same or better ESD compression level (file size) than Dism, and still faster
but it will require/use more memory to achieve this

Spoiler

Improved the LZMS compressor. It now provides a compression ratio
slightly better than WIMGAPI while still being faster and using slightly
less memory.

The compression chunk size in solid resources, e.g. when capturing or
exporting a WIM file using the '--solid' option, now defaults to 64 MiB
(67108864 bytes) instead of 32 MiB (33554432 bytes). This provides a
better compression ratio and is the same value that WIMGAPI uses. The
memory usage is less than 50% higher than wimlib v1.7.4 and is slightly
lower than WIMGAPI's memory usage, but if it is too much, it is still
possible to choose a lower value, e.g. with the '--solid-chunk-size'
option to wimlib-imagex.

i'll wait until final release to update the script pack
in the mean time, one could download the beta and replace current wimlib-imagex.exe and libwim-15.dll with new ones for each arch

 

Well I assume that if I'm going to dedicate to do this kind of work, I mean servicing images etc, a lot or RAM I must have. As I have 12GB guess there's no problem for me

 

@abbodi1406,
Thx a lot for your script it works like a charm to transform ESD file from Microsoft Media Creation Tool into WIM !

 

Spoiler

wimlib v1.8.0 has been released.

Code:

File: ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-wimlib-3.7z
 MD5: 6737bcea44267180a0c234f6ba182ca5
SHA1: 1071a5563721fe458e5cdc475faede35e7b4f5c5

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quick test result:

Code:

source: boot.wim / 206 MB / both indexes

wimlib : 131 MB in ~ 7:30 minutes
dism   : 139 MB in ~ 12:00 minutes

 

I downloaded ESD2WIM-WIM2ESD-wimlib-3.7z and used it to convert windows 8.1 Pro install.esd to install.wim and it worked fine on a Windows 7 environment using your script. Thanks guys you did a great job.

 

N,m

Failed to create a hard or symbolic link when extracting a file from the WIM

 

I get warnings about hardlink errors when I convert my win7 install.wim to install.esd.
The win7 esd file works 100%.
When I convert Svr 2012r2, win8+ & win10 from wim to esd I get no warnings...

 

7zip last ver also bypass this problem

 

@abbodi1406

maybe u can make it work....

when mounting a drive to ntfs dir on another drive
and extracting the install.wim, it show hardlink error but its still booting
however updating failed

maybe u can make wim-imagex work around it and fix it?

 

I never used that's option actually
but reading wimlib docs leads to this option: --norpfix
add it to this line:

Code:

"%wimlib%" apply "%WIMFILE%" %_index% %_ltr%

to be

Code:

"%wimlib%" apply "%WIMFILE%" %_index% %_ltr% --norpfix 

and be sure to run the script as admin

 

wont work :\
with 7zip its working but windows update failed

Im trying make like SSD edition
when installing windows on SSD the cache dir like
Winsxs will be on HDD partition drive with diskpart mount
so SSD footprint wont get bigger

even installing more Microsoft application

 

Did you try dism?

 

no i will try
i check imagex.exe but there no norpfix option there


edit:
doesn't work too
The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive.

 

wimlib is better

that would work

you may make it
wimlib-imagex export install.wim all install.esd --solid

 

Using Windows ADK and having to convert the install.wim to install.esd file, I should write:

Code:

dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:"<Windows_Files_Path>\sources\install.wim" /SourceIndex:<Image_Index> /DestinationImageFile:"<Windows_Files_Path>\sources\install.esd" /Compress:recovery /CheckIntegrity

for each volume image stored in the install.wim file. Right?

At this point, I could delete the install.wim file from the installation DVD of Windows 8.x/10 and replace it with the install.esd file. Right?

Thanks

Bye