Add/Edit content to a Windows Bootable ISO (Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, windows Server 2019)

Add /Edit content to a Windows Bootable ISO (Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, windows Server 2019)

Sometimes we are needed to add/update files/folders in Windows Bootable ISOs which makes it little difficult because these CD/DVD Images are not simple Data disks but they are bootable too which needs to be created differently so that it remains bootable even after it is edited.

Recently I had to do similar thing and had to face little difficulties and finally I was able to do this using some open source tools, I am presenting the way I achieved it.

To edit/add remove files/folders to a Windows ISO here are the steps.

• Mount the Windows Bootable ISO and copy everything to a temporary folder (Example C:\Temp) or extract the content of the ISO using 7Zip/WinRAR etc..
• Add files/folders content in the temporary folder where contents from ISO are extracted.
• Download ImgBurn from Here
• Install ImgBurn and launch it:
• Click on Create image file from files/folders

Explanation:

1. Select the Folder where the content copied from ISO is copied and add it to Source pane.
2. Select the destination where modified .ISO file will be written.
3. Click on the Advanced Tab
4. Select Bootable Disk Tab below
5. Tick the Checkbox Make Image Bootable
6. Select the boot file etfsboot.com from the boot folder of the location where you extracted the content of ISO originally.
7. Mention 8 in sectors to load
8. Finally Click on the Write button.

This will create a bootable ISO image with whatever content was added to the Temporary folder where Extracted data from the ISO was located originally.