Latest Windows 10 iso file too large for DVD!

Quite simply, Microsoft and its engineers are incompetent pieces of trash who should be all fired.  They are such stupid lowly engineers they cannot think their way out of their backside.  This is going on since 1995 already.  Do you dirtbags ever consider people have to use your damn softwareand have different situations? Not every machine has USB that works without drivers, and many other reasons.  Was it too hard for you to just make 2 DVDs? Or make a smaller dvd? Totally inept and useless staff and engineers I would fire all of them. What a garbage work culture that aspires to be a little less than useless.

Thank you. I so agree. You speak from the heart.

Hi and thanks for reaching out. My name is William, I’m an Independent Advisor. I'll be happy to help you out today.

That is the expected size of the 20H2 ISO. Your only option for DVD is use dual layer ... or use a cheap USB stick, they are much faster to install from.

As I said in my original post, those are the things I don't want and can not do.

1. I don't have a flash drive big enough.
2. I don't have burner and blanks with dual layer support.
3. Computer has no option in BIOS to boot from USB
4. Said computer's DVD drive can't read dual layer.

Hi there

Try to borrow an earlier version of window10 you need (win10 64bit as an example) on a dvd

Install it as the earlier version, then do not add anything at this point (extra apps etc)

Get the Media creation Tool and start it up

Choose "upgrade this pc"

This should now download the new version and install automatically

I've had to do this a couple of times with older machines as they have had the same problems as yours and not been able to boot from flash drives, dual layer readers etc.

Hope this helps

Please remember you are dealing with people who have the latest tech and gizmos, on line 24/7 and live in another world

This is just lazy. The ISO is 4,765,897,728 bytes and the maximum capacity of a DVD-R SL is 4,707,319,808 bytes.

Are you really saying that Microsoft couldn't trim 56 MiB of cruft from the ISO to make it fit?

More like they couldn't be bothered to.

(Not having a go at you personally, William)

Here's how you can create your own 2x DVD 20H2 64Bit media.

Mount your 64 Bit 20H2 ISO.

Create a Folder for you DVD1 files I'll use C:\20H2DVD1 copy these folders/files from the mounted ISO

boot

efi

autorun.inf

bootmgr

bootmgr.efi

setup.exe

sources\boot.wim      <--- Just the one file from sources folder

We'll need need to download Windows ADK to get oscdimg.exe.

Download and install the Windows ADK | Microsoft Docs

We only need the Deployment Tools

To create the ISO C:\20H2DVD1.ISO run this command

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\amd64\Oscdimg\oscdimg.exe" -l20H2DVD1 -m -o -u2 -udfver102 -bootdata:2#p0,e,b"C:\20H2DVD1\boot\etfsboot.com"#pEF,e,b"C:\20H2DVD1\efi\microsoft\boot\efisys.bin" "C:\20H2DVD1" "C:\20H2DVD1.ISO"

For C:\20H2DVD2 folder copy the entire contents of the mounted ISO and delete C:\20H2DVD2\Sources\boot.wim

To create the ISO C:\20H2DVD2.ISO run this command

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\amd64\Oscdimg\oscdimg.exe"  -l20H2DVD2 -m -o -u2 -udfver102 "C:\20H2DVD2" "C:\20H2DVD2.ISO"

Burn both discs. Technically the 1st ISO is 420 MB you could use a CD. I've tried 2x DVD and it works.

Boot the 1st CD/DVD (20H2DVD1) to where it asks for the language selection. Eject the 1st CD/DVD (20H2DVD1) and insert the 2nd DVD (20H2DVD2).