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What I need

I need the boot image file for Windows so I can create my own Windows 10 custom ISO file and/or burn it to a DVD and make it bootable.

For example, in WinISO there is a menu option called "Set Boot Image" where it expects a boot image file to be specified, with the file name extension bifx or bif, or img.

WinISO - Set Boot Image

What I have tried

  • Downloading the boot image from the web

At first, I thought I could easily download one of the millions of boot images from the web. But after two hours of searching the web, I have not found anything I could use. Well, I found only one site that had it and my anti-virus program warned me not to go to that site.

Why is the boot image so hard to find? Is it copyrighted material?

  • Extracting the boot image from an ISO file

I then tried to extract the boot image from an existing ISO file using WinISO. However, WinISO can only extract it from a physical CD/DVD. What I have here is the Windows 10 ISO file (64 bit, version 1909) which is more than 5 GB (5,294,394 Kb) and cannot fit on a single layer DVD-5 (4.7 GB). Therefore, I cannot burn the ISO file to a DVD in order for WinISO to extract the boot image (unless I have a double layer blank DVD-9 (8.5 GB) disc). I guess the programmers of WinISO didn't expect people to extract boot image from existing ISO files.

Is there any place where I can download a boot image file (bifx, bif or img) or any way to extract the boot image from an existing ISO file?

Clarification

I am looking for a boot image FOR Windows, not the bootable image OF Windows.

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If you download the Media Creation Tool for the current version of Windows, you can use it to create an .ISO file that will fit on a single layer DVD. You can also create a USB stick and boot that.

Make sure you only do x64 or x86, not both, otherwise the iso will be twice as big.

The provided link will always be for the latest version of Windows.

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