ESD Installer 0.1.14 — Test release

Test release. Automated checks passed, but these changes have not yet been tested through a full Windows installation. Try them in a disposable virtual machine first.

All editions

• Stops the app from erasing the partition that contains your installation image.
• Checks that the installer uses exactly the installation choices you approved.
• Improved checks for unavailable, read-only, or unsuitable installation partitions.
• Update downloads that stop responding or are unexpectedly large now fail instead of hanging, and the downloaded update is checked again right before it starts.
• Fixed update checks getting stuck after the computer's clock changes, and separate update downloads overwriting each other.
• Stopped update prompts from interrupting a Windows installation.
• Installation commands that stop responding are now stopped instead of leaving the installation waiting forever.

Windows 10/11

• Fixed repeated clicks and disk refreshes leaving the app with outdated selections.
• Improved handling of file-opening errors and cancelled operations.

Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1

• Fixed two different ISO files with the same name possibly sharing extracted files; a damaged or changed extracted image is now detected before installation.
• Fixed repeated clicks, refreshes and image selections leaving outdated selections, and a possible crash when reading disks failed.
• Improved drive-letter checks so installation stops if the destination cannot be confirmed.

Keep the image on a separate local drive from the destination. WIM and ESD files (and any image on Windows 10/11) on network drives are blocked. No new languages or interface redesign are included. The installers remain unsigned.

Downloads

• ESD-Installer-Setup-0.1.14.exe for Windows 10 and Windows 11
• ESD-Installer-Windows8-Setup-0.1.14.exe for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
• ESD-Installer-Windows7-Setup-0.1.14.exe for Windows 7 SP1

SHA-256

Checksum files are in the SHA-256 folder.

be6f85eb409218958e2ee7f8be15e62200d1a5fd1e61cbce3efa03d704c5294c *ESD-Installer-Setup-0.1.14.exe
04aecf3aa8e2dd67a330c18c3bf150badb124f84a64585c2aedecb8f2b7a8989 *ESD-Installer-Windows8-Setup-0.1.14.exe
4b6172c3f387533652a7d7b90eb8e58b53dbefeb9951b8247191d56ce13faa71 *ESD-Installer-Windows7-Setup-0.1.14.exe

ESD Installer performs destructive disk operations. Back up important data and verify the selected target before installing.