I believe he meant that he would like to wait for more help from the team to better understand how to do it. But he's already getting your help. Alright then!
Wimlib not required, you can literally rename the esd to wim and windows setup and dism will still recognise it
Did you try that? DISM can't handle an install.esd renamed to install.wim Code: Error: 11 An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
Yes. In my homemade ISO homebrew experiments The compression algorithm used (LZX, LZMS etc.) is read from the file header. Esd is used to ease identification of solid archives
Does renaming a ext from .wim to .esd works then what for dism commands are used to convert wim to esd & why abbodi has made a esd to wim or vise versa wim to esd convertor why compression methods are different in both scenarios ie for esd is recovery & for wim is normal or max
Yes it should work but it won't change the compression algorithm so non-solid archive will remain large and non-solid (contents won't be changed) Wim to esd converter converts it into a solid archive and reduces file size. Esd (solid archive) renamed to wim will remain non-editable, needs to be properly decompressed to make non-solid and editable
Or by design to prohibit novices who used the MCT to create an ISO to corrupt it? ps, imagex (not wimlib-imagex) can handle install.esd to some level, mounting but not saving, deleting indexes.
why will somebody just change the ext from wim to esd if it wont do any change. main criteria of converting wim to esd is to solid compress it so as to save space on iso & as well as faster installation.
Most claim using install.esd would be slower, but only swm will be slower at installing, because it first needs to copy the swm files to be able to use/apply them. wim and esd can be directly applied.
LZMS hardly requires more CPU resources than LZX for decompressing although it is a completely different story for compression.
Yes Absolutely Correct Brother. ESD Installation is faster compared to wim apply as per my consent. never tried swm's splitting image into parts so cant say about that.
It's approx. the same for esd or wim. Somewhere in this thread i published the timings. But nothing of this is helping this question, not as long as the writer doesn't reply with the asked info: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/msmg-toolkit.50572/page-961#post-1657431