Description
You have an ESD, a WIM or an old GHO and want to put it straight onto a partition without building a full boot disk. CoolInstall squeezes the whole job into three picks: choose the image, choose the boot partition, choose where to install, then press Start, and it handles extracting, writing boot files and restarting. It is a free tool kept up to date by the author Yaming Jushi on the Wankuzhijia forum, and it runs from a PE environment or from the system you are using.
The default window is a simple one with a handful of options. Press F2 for advanced mode, where you can add an unattended answer file, inject drivers, call external plugins, or choose whether the target partition is formatted before a WIM or ESD install. The install methods are wide: Wimboot, Compact, VHD, VHDX, UEFI and BIOS, plus creating, attaching and detaching virtual disks. For multi system setups, tick rebuild boot and it repairs the multi boot menu automatically. The archive also includes CIPCM, which builds variants such as a single file edition, x64 or x86 only editions and a mini build.
Many image formats: WIM, SWM, ESD, GHO and ISO, so official images, custom builds and backups can all be installed directly
Many install methods: Wimboot, Compact, VHD, VHDX, UEFI and BIOS to fit the hardware, with virtual disk create, attach and detach built in
Multi system and boot repair: tick rebuild boot and the multi boot menu is repaired while installing another system
Image auto search: finds images within two folder levels on every disk, with a config file to customize the search and a preferred edition for WIM and ESD images
Guard against wrong partitions: blocks and warns when the chosen partition is a bad target, and lets you decide whether the pre install partition is formatted
Plugin support: a plugin interface with official plugins such as a Win7 USB and NVMe patch and Win10 RST VMD driver injection
Drivers and PE extras: universal driver loading from an ISO, driver release during deployment, and an offline IP lookup for use in PE
Simple and advanced modes: F2 toggles between the two layouts, and language files cover Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, Turkish, Russian and Korean
The default window is a simple one with a handful of options. Press F2 for advanced mode, where you can add an unattended answer file, inject drivers, call external plugins, or choose whether the target partition is formatted before a WIM or ESD install. The install methods are wide: Wimboot, Compact, VHD, VHDX, UEFI and BIOS, plus creating, attaching and detaching virtual disks. For multi system setups, tick rebuild boot and it repairs the multi boot menu automatically. The archive also includes CIPCM, which builds variants such as a single file edition, x64 or x86 only editions and a mini build.
Features
Many image formats: WIM, SWM, ESD, GHO and ISO, so official images, custom builds and backups can all be installed directly
Many install methods: Wimboot, Compact, VHD, VHDX, UEFI and BIOS to fit the hardware, with virtual disk create, attach and detach built in
Multi system and boot repair: tick rebuild boot and the multi boot menu is repaired while installing another system
Image auto search: finds images within two folder levels on every disk, with a config file to customize the search and a preferred edition for WIM and ESD images
Guard against wrong partitions: blocks and warns when the chosen partition is a bad target, and lets you decide whether the pre install partition is formatted
Plugin support: a plugin interface with official plugins such as a Win7 USB and NVMe patch and Win10 RST VMD driver injection
Drivers and PE extras: universal driver loading from an ISO, driver release during deployment, and an offline IP lookup for use in PE
Simple and advanced modes: F2 toggles between the two layouts, and language files cover Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, Turkish, Russian and Korean
