SWM files not correctly parsed.

[foxpat]

Hi Igor,
Working with Surface Pro recovery images directly downloaded from Microsoft
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surfacerecoveryimage

SurfaceProX_BMR_16_128.5.0.zip - Surface Pro X SQ1
SurfaceProX_H_BMR_16_6.111.0.zip - Surface Pro X SQ2
SurfacePro7_BMR_16_7.1.0.zip - Surface Pro 7

7zip presents issues when working with SurfacePro.zip\Sources\Install*.swm

Some swm files are correctly opened but the displayed data is inconsistent in several ways.
Some swm files after being initially parsed by 7zip the OS asks for the application able to handle the parsed swm ??? Something is wrong here.

The downloaded zip files do not present errors and they are able to recover Surface targets w/o issues.

I know you do not like big files but I'm unable to create small examples exactly representing all these issues.
When u get a minute please take a look.
Thank you!

[Igor Pavlov]

I don't see direct download links for these files.

[foxpat]

Unfortunately Microsoft makes things complicated.
without login/register you can select i.e. Surface Pro X, with i.e SN 0255}{2340}{3853
(just a number removing the curly braces).
In this particular case I cannot even open the SWM files,
If you fix things and you are able to open them please check i.e
file sizes, I saw in other recovery set where the swm can be open lot of files with size=0,
or install2/3.swm with no more than content flagged as "erased"; weird stuff.
It looks like your parser gets somehow lost when dealing with this set of swm files

[Igor Pavlov]

That big file is diffuclt to download now.

[foxpat]

I know, I also experienced some issues downloading these files; it depends on the time of the day.
if you can I appreciate you taking a look at this; you know I do not bother if there's not a real fix needed. Thanks Igor.