.ESD File used by Microsoft's Electronic Software Download (ESD) software, a technology that is used for downloading purchased Microsoft products; saves the downloaded software in an encrypted format (an encrypted .WIM file); used for installing and upgrading purchased software. ESD files are sometimes seen when upgrading to Windows 7 or Windows 8 using the Microsoft Upgrade Assistant or when purchasing the software through the Microsoft online store. Earlier there was tool to unpack the .esd contents to either iso or to folder. but with the introduction of windows 8.0 It changed till now their is no tool to unpack expect Microsoft own internal tool which is still unknown to general people. .ESD File format uses high compression ratio with encryption so when you are making a Windows 8.1 All-In-One OS, then the install.wim will become huge. so this .esd format can be used to save space One drawback is once you convert .wim to .esd format then you can only use the .esd file to install the os but you can't add/remove anything to .esd format. you have again use the .wim format and do the changes and then make a .esd format for the final thing.
I have been enjoying the old pinball game for several days now. Is it possible to make a separate installer of the games pack to add to an existing Windows 8.1 installation? Went through the DART package integration. I never used or heard of this before. I did some research and thought it might be useful. After setting up a new fresh 8.1 install, I tried to access Dart via holding down shift while doing a restart through the charms bar's settings icon. I got the blue menu, and saw troubleshooting listed, and chose that. I saw no sign of the DART tools anywhere. What else am I missing here? Do I need to have something else installed in order to see it on the blue menu? Thanks For Your Support,
dart injected into boot.wim index 2, u can access that via system repair in windows setup menu (u can see option between install now => install windows and system repair, there u can see dart menu)
If you want to install the games on an existing windows 8.1 installation, then just copy the contents of pack\games\x86 or pack\games\x64 to c:\ and overwrite any file when asked and import the registry from pack\games\games_x86.reg or pack\games\games_x64.reg and reboot that's it. next time I will include a option to install some features for online systems too. I have made Dart to be include boot.wim of windows setup if you want to use dart on your existing windows 8.1 installation you need to include dart tools to winre.wim, that I haven't included with the toolkit yet, I will do add it in future.
It's Good that Windows 8.1 Update 2014 MSU (9600.16610.140201-1007) is leaked, now I do have more work to do for the toolkit, first I will merge the GA updates integration with the Windows 8.1 update 2014. it would have been good if GA updates were a part of Windows 8.1 update 2014 MSU. In the mean time I may release a Converter for Converting Windows 8.1 RTM ISO to Windows 8.1 Update 2014 RTM ISO if in case the ISO doesn't gets leaked early.
Hi MSMG: ypur doing graet work and thanks a lot i have a question when removing default metro apps, it shoud be posible to remove 2 or 3 at the same time instead of doing one by one those one i would prefer not to keep
I can understand, since this toolkit is a dos script based, it has limitations for choosing custom choices. it will be difficult to provide choice for what to keep or not coz people choices differ. so instead of every time mounting the wim, removing the app and un-mounting the wim, am making some changes to next version of toolkit to first mount the wim at first step and then do the integration/removal/settings and finally save and un-mount the wim. that would make the process easier. right now am busy with other issues so it will take some time for the next release.
Hi, How is it possible to determine if all these subsequent rollups only modify install.wim, or if they also update boot.wim, and winre.wim? I would like to properly integrate the following: • Rollup B (KB2884846) • November Rollup (KB2887595) • December Rollup (KB2903939) • January Rollup (KB2911106) Plus, I just learned about this one: KB2919394 Thanks for all your support!
As pointed out if you open any msu with 7-zip/WinRar. you will finda file Windows8.1-KBxxxxxxxxx-pkgProperties.txt. Just extract that file and open it with notepad, in the first line you will see like this ApplicabilityInfo="Windows 8.1 Client;Windows 8.1 Server Core;Windows 8.1 Server;Windows 8.1 WinPE if you see WinPE, then it applies to winpe/boot/winre wim images, but there is one more thing you have to see whether the components that are included in the msu files does contains in the winpe/boot/winre wim images else the update won't get applied to these wim images. also some update are applied only to the particular index of a wim image for example the latest windows 8.1 2014 update though gets applied to both the boot.wim indexes (1 & 2), but when booted, it the setup will give error coz the update only has to be applied to boot.wim index 1. I have already made a script for the below updates you have mentioned, will be posting it soon..
Good news indeed. Thanks for all your support MSMG and please take your time with the next version. Regards cgp
Your tool is a g-d send for any IT guy thanks so much!!! may i suggest to have an option to update all indexes, and also if not too difficult to have the toolkit download and extract the msu to cab. thanks so much!!!
Hi, Another feature request. I have chosen to keep x86 and x64 install images on separate discs. Is there any chance that the DVD source folder could have both x86 & x64 subfolders, and we could choose which version to work on? This would be a big help. Thanks,
Yes option to update all indexes are in the process and download the updates and extracting them to cab format can be done that's not a problem, only thing is that we need to maintain a list file which contains the links to the updates and the in-built downloader in the toolkit can fetch those files from the server and then extract them to the cab folder.
Right the toolkit supports both x86, x64, x86 & x64 (AIO) source, right now am working on how to update multiple indexes. will see how best your idea could be implemented.
MSMG, love the toolkit, but I'm having a problem. I can not create a UEFI iso from the menu. I keep getting a quick flash (trying to boot from the freshly made UEFI burned iso)then back to the default boot drive. My host is 2012R2 DataCenter, but converted to Workstation, if that makes a difference all the requirements are installed. The toolkit lives in a directory on the root of C:\MSMG. Also I'm trying to create a UEFI Server 2012 R2 $OEM$ Install disk. Thanks snakeman
Yes, in my previous posts, some one had mentioned the problem with UEFI ISO Creation, actually I have used the correct parameters but still something is going wrong, still I haven't fixed it will be fixing in the next release.
Thank you, and Thanks for replying since this was basically a re post did not know it was mentioned before. I thought I did a pretty good search. Trying with command line now! Command line worked for Windows 8.1 uefi boot creation, trying Server 2012 R2 now! Here is the command I am using if anyone is interested: cd C:\MSMG\Bin\WADK\amd64\Oscdimg oscdimg.exe -m -o -u2 -udfver102 -bootdata:2#p0,e,bC:\MSMG\DVD\boot\etfsboot.com#pEF,e,bC:\MSMG\DVD\efi\microsoft\boot\efisys.bin C:\MSMG\DVD C:\MSMG\ISO\yournamehere.iso snakeman