So, what should we do if an ESD disc was used.

I was wondering how much WIM and ESD compression are, but for now I won't waste time on such little things. WIM images also support compression, but it is believed that an ESD image can have super strong compression and this will allow downloading an operating system update over the Internet. For this, the compression ratio had to be increased. As it turned out, Microsoft developed new format image files in order to increase the compression ratio and support the ability to download the image over the Internet. But in its place a file was found install.esd. There was simply no file in the right place in the ISO image install.wim. But when I started preparing a bootable USB flash drive for offline installation of the operating system, then the dancing with a rake began. The system was prepared to work using WDS (Windows Deployment Services) and everything went as planned.

I did not immediately notice the catch, since I was using a computer on which the reference system was already installed. But recently I was preparing an image for one office that uses Windows 10 LTSB. The same file is used not only for network installation, but also for writing to a bootable USB flash drive in order to install an operating system with all the necessary complex software. It can be created different methods, but it was as a wim-image and remains a wim-image. Under normal conditions, for image creation deployment uses a.

What is the esd folder in windows 10