Where is install esd

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Windows 10 Can't Find The Install. Thread starter Ayan Start date Oct 21, Ayan New Member. I want to make a iso file of my current win 10 build but in my surprise, suddenly i can not find that "install. But neither i can find the Folder nor the esd file. For information, I didn't do any disk cleanup and also i don't use anything like cCleaner. We need to get into the folder we have just created. Type in:. As we said above, the install.

Each edition of the OS is stored in the file install. You can get the list of Windows editions in your install. Run the following command to list all Windows editions in your image:. As you can see, in the install. Find the index number of Windows 10 edition you need we are choosing Index 1, since we are using the Windows 10 Pro edition.

The next command allows you to extract the specified Windows edition installation image from the esd file and convert it to the WIM file format:. As a result, the size of the esd file can be 30 percent smaller than the size of the original wim file. For compressed archives, recovery Microsoft recommends using the esd file extension for images compressed with the recovery compression type.

Image exporting is started and the process can take a long time. Conversion is quite a resource-intensive task, during which the processor and memory of your computer will be heavily loaded. Depending on your computer hardware, it takes about minutes to complete. You can extract several Windows editions from the esd to the install.

For example, to create a WIM image file with Home index:2 and Pro index:1 Windows 10 edition, you can use the following commands:. Run the elevated PowerShell console and execute the following command to get the Windows editions from the install. Now you can use the Export-WindowsImage cmdlet to convert Install. ESD to Install. This generates a new install. I cannot find any information on generating an esd file, as they appear to be encrypted or something?

I'm a bit confused about the matter. But the end result is, when I delete the install. To be clear, this is what I'm doing: 1. Install Windows 10 from original ISO 2. Check for updates, install a few applications, make a few profile changes to the administrator account. Copy new install. When I copy the new install. Any tips or suggestions, or references to documentation on how to do this properly would be greatly appeciated.

Thanks for reading! Attachments: Up to 10 attachments including images can be used with a maximum of 3. ChetarRuby Hi, From your description, it seems you tried to boot your 21H1 image including install.