How to find Version, Edition and Build of Unknown Windows Image (ISO file)?

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When we download Windows Image (or ISO File) from Microsoft, its name is such that we can identify it by its name, which edition, version and build of Windows it is.
For example "Win10_20H2_v2_English_x32.iso" is the ISO file of Windows 10 downloaded from the Microsoft Website.
Here, Win indicates Windows, 10 indicates the tenth version of Windows, 20H2 indicates that it has been released in the 2nd half of the year 2020, v2 indicates the 2nd version, English indicate the English language and x32 indicates 32-bit system type.
But, if someone changes its name, then we cannot recognize it. But we can extract the complete information of the ISO file by running some commands.

Let's start

Step 1: Open Command Prompt with Admin rights

  1. Click Start, find "cmd", and then click on Run as administrator.
  2. Click Yes on Use Account Control.

Step 2: Copy the path of the WIM / ESD / VHD file

First of all, open the File Explorer, open the View ribbon and check the File name extensions.
  1. Now open the iso file you want to extract information from.
  2. Then open the sources folder.
  3. Find and highlight the install.wim or install.esd or install.vhd file.
  4. Click on Home Ribbon above and then click on the Copy path.

Step 3: Run Command

You extract the ISO file information by running commands in the command prompt.

To get the list of all editions, run this command:

Dism /Get-ImageInfo /imagefile:<copied path>
After running this command, a list of all editions will be found.
Example: Dism /Get-ImageInfo /imagefile:"G:\sources\install.wim"
Here <copied path> = "G:\sources\install.wim"
C:\WINDOWS\system32>Dism /Get-ImageInfo /imagefile:"G:\sources\install.wim"

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844

Details for image : G:\sources\install.wim

Index : 1
Name : Windows 8.1 Pro
Description : Windows 8.1 Pro
Size : 9,019,796,360 bytes

Index : 2
Name : Windows 8.1
Description : Windows 8.1
Size : 8,971,872,301 bytes

The operation completed successfully.

Now, to get more information of specific edition run this command:

Dism /Get-ImageInfo /imagefile:<copied path> /index:?
By running this command, you will get complete information about the edition.
Example:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>Dism /Get-ImageInfo /imagefile:"G:\sources\install.wim" /index:1

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844

Details for image : G:\sources\install.wim

Index : 1
Name : Windows 8.1 Pro
Description : Windows 8.1 Pro
Size : 9,019,796,360 bytes
WIM Bootable : No
Architecture : x86
Hal : acpiapic
Version : 6.3.9600
ServicePack Build : 17415
ServicePack Level : 0
Edition : Professional
Installation : Client
ProductType : WinNT
ProductSuite : Terminal Server
System Root : WINDOWS
Directories : 13360
Files : 75920
Created : 11/22/2014 - 8:50:28 AM
Modified : 11/22/2014 - 8:50:56 AM
Languages :
        en-US (Default)
The operation completed successfully

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