Extract the windows major and minor build numbers from an ISO file, and automatically sort the iso files.

Podalirius

Last update: Nov 9, 2022

Overview

WindowsBuildFromISO

Extract the windows major and minor build numbers from an ISO file, and automatically sort the iso files.

Features

Parse multiple ISO files from a directory.
Detect the Windows build number and OS language.
Sort and rename the ISO files in folders by OS major and minor builds.

Examples

Automatically sort and rename the isos from a directory by major and minor build numbers.
```
./WindowsBuildFromISO.py --iso-dir ./isos/ --archive-dir ./archive/
```

Only get the major and minor build numbers of an ISO.

./WindowsBuildFromISO.py --iso ./isos/Win10_21H1_x64_English.iso

Usage

$ ./WindowsBuildFromISO.py -h
usage: WindowsBuildFromISO.py [-h] (-i ISO | -d ISO_DIR) [-a ARCHIVE_DIR] [-v]

Extract Windows Build number from ISO files. v1.1

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i ISO, --iso ISO     Path to iso file.
  -d ISO_DIR, --iso-dir ISO_DIR
                        Directory containing multiple ISOs to parse.
  -a ARCHIVE_DIR, --archive-dir ARCHIVE_DIR
                        Archive dir. (default: False)
  -v, --verbose         Verbose mode. (default: False)

How it works

In order to extract the Windows version from an ISO, we first need to mount the ISO file and open its content. In the ISO, there is a ./sources/ folder containing a Windows imaging (WIM) image in ./sources/boot.wim. When we uncompress this archive, we get a lot of files, but one file at the root of the archive stands out: '[1].xml'.

boot$ ls -lha
total 52K
drwxrwxr-x 5 podalirius podalirius 4,0K janv. 18 00:17  .
drwxrwxr-x 4 podalirius podalirius 4,0K janv. 18 00:17  ..
drwx------ 8 podalirius podalirius 4,0K mars  19  2019  1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 podalirius podalirius 3,9K janv. 18 00:16 '[1].xml'
drwx------ 8 podalirius podalirius 4,0K mars  19  2019  2
drwx------ 2 podalirius podalirius  32K janv. 18 00:16 '[DELETED]'

This file is a XML file containing information about the images contained inside the ./sources/boot.wim file. It contains all the information we need to know which major or minor build this ISO file is. Here is an extract of the '[1].xml' file:

... 9 Microsoft� Windows� Operating System WindowsPE WindowsPE WinNT en-US en-US 10 0 18362 418 0 19h1_release WINDOWS Microsoft Windows PE (x64) Microsoft Windows PE (x64) 9 ... ">

<WIM>
    <TOTALBYTES>530731284TOTALBYTES>
    <IMAGE INDEX="1">
        ...
        <WINDOWS>
            <ARCH>9ARCH>
            <PRODUCTNAME>Microsoft� Windows� Operating SystemPRODUCTNAME>
            <EDITIONID>WindowsPEEDITIONID>
            <INSTALLATIONTYPE>WindowsPEINSTALLATIONTYPE>
            <PRODUCTTYPE>WinNTPRODUCTTYPE>
            <PRODUCTSUITE>PRODUCTSUITE>
            <LANGUAGES>
                <LANGUAGE>en-USLANGUAGE>
                <DEFAULT>en-USDEFAULT>
            LANGUAGES>
            <VERSION>
                <MAJOR>10MAJOR>
                <MINOR>0MINOR>
                <BUILD>18362BUILD>
                <SPBUILD>418SPBUILD>
                <SPLEVEL>0SPLEVEL>
                <BRANCH>19h1_releaseBRANCH>
            VERSION>
            <SYSTEMROOT>WINDOWSSYSTEMROOT>
        WINDOWS>
        <NAME>Microsoft Windows PE (x64)NAME>
        <DESCRIPTION>Microsoft Windows PE (x64)DESCRIPTION>
        <FLAGS>9FLAGS>
    IMAGE>
    ...
WIM>

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to open an issue if you want to add other features.

Comments

Find where the common OS name is inside the ISO

For example "Windows server 2016" should be here instead of "Windows 10.0" :

[iso] ./archive/Windows 10.0/10.0.14393.0 - Windows 10.0/en-us/10.0.14393.0.Windows_Server_2016_Datacenter.en-us.iso 
   [+] Windows 10.0 (build:14393.0)  (lang:en-us)

enhancement

opened by p0dalirius 1

Extract the windows major and minor build numbers from an ISO file, and automatically sort the iso files.

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WindowsBuildFromISO

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Examples

Usage

How it works

Contributing

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Comments

Find where the common OS name is inside the ISO

Releases(1.2)

1.2(Jan 20, 2022)

1.1(Jan 19, 2022)

Owner

Podalirius

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