Shrink the Push-Button Reset Image
Applies To: Windows 8.1
To save hard drive space, especially on PCs with solid state drives (SSD), convert your push-button reset image into a highly compressed .esd file.
Note
Convert the image from .WIM to .ESD
Export the image into a separate file:
dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:"MyImageFile.wim" /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:"install.esd" /Compress:recovery
The push-button reset feature recognizes the filenames: install.wim, install.esd, and install.swm.
Shrink the recovery partition
Use DiskPart or the Windows Disk Management tool to shrink the partition to fit the newly-compressed file.
Note, if your recovery partition is already in place, you won't be able to simply shrink the partition. Instead:
Shrink an existing partition
Move everything off the recovery partition (including the recovery image and all other recovery files).
Use DiskPart or the Windows Disk Management tool to resize the partitions.
Register the push-button reset tools again.
See Also
Tasks
Deploy Push-Button Reset Features
Concepts
Push-Button Reset Overview
Solid State Drive Deployment
Other Resources
Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) Command-Line Options