How to convert ESD files to WIM files

Inspect ESD:

Export WIM:

[nortenhardenberg]

Tank You very much. The commands, You've given under Your guid: was much faster, without tipping!

[Mango-gt]

Error: 87

The command-line is missing the /destinationimagefile option.
For more information, refer to the help.

I wrote everything as you did but didnt work

[indidginus]

Thanks for this Danny. Been struggling to get install.wim from my usb install.esd and this has helped me do that. Much appreciated. Don't know why Microsoft make all this so damn hard 🤣

[sirfaap]

You are great! I appreciate your efforts! File has started to be converted. Thanks!

[yutehube]

The WIM ended up about 1.6 times bigger than the ESD and I don't know of any way to compress the WIM back to a size somewhere near the size of the original ESD. I am sure it's possible, because I have converted Windows 10 ESD to WIM and it didn't balloon up in size like this one does. 🤔

*ESD to WIM:*
dism /export-image /SourceIndex:1 /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity

*WIM to ESD:*
dism /export-image /SourceIndex:1 /Compress:recovery /CheckIntegrity

[KshooTV]

Thanks for such a clean and easy video!

[scooterguy]

​ @danny_moran Great video. I know this is an old post, but hopefully you can help. Do you know if there is a way to select multiple indexes for the different versions of windows? like selecting windows home, pro and education?

[coldplay]

Do I add this .wim file back into the folder with the contents of the ISO?

[michelin_tim]

Mine keeps saying "The specified buffer contains ill-formed data" can u help me please

[ollaholla]

it says i dont have enough storage for the wim file, my flash drive has 24gb available storage. theres no way the .wim file is bigger than 24 gigs when the .esd file is only 3.9 gigs right?

[raven_uk]

@Danny Moran The Windows 10 installation ISO file is a bit too large to fit on a 4.7GB DVD (up 100 MB). Maybe there is a way to remove some of the unneeded windows versions from install.esd (or to use a higher compression ratio) file to fit it on to a single layer DVD?

[reinaldogpn]

is it possible to fit all indexes in the same .wim file?

[joppy-yhoi]

tysm i might be fix my computer bc of this vid my sfc and dism broke so hopefully it can fix now

[OronBelt]

Thanks mate. Needed this step. Cheers

[carlj]

bro where did you get that install.esd?

[akhyarrayhka]

need help why is when i try to do that, access is denied???

[ahmedelkholy]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH THAT HELPED ME ALOT😌

[tecproductions]

Unfortunately this did not work for. Error 5, access is denied

[gauravrawani]

Thank you so much sir it's working

[felipeporto]

Hi Danny, thanks a lot...it work for me but only in my local machine. In the server (Windows Server 2008) i have a issue to execute the commands but i think is because the Powershell from Windows Server 2008 dont recognize the commands since this OS is too old rsrsrs Another question, can i generate this file .wim in my local machine and export to my Server 2008 to import on MDT?