Gregory,
I know that you are looking for a program that will allow you to create the ISO image so that the end result is a bootable ISO image. You have also been very clear that you do not want to install the Windows ADK.
So, a couple things:
1) You listed programs that you have tried. One of the programs that you listed was
UltraISO. I have done this successfully with UltraISO so I know that it is possible. You just have to figure out how

. It's quite a few years since I did it that way, but I assure you that it is possible. What I do recall is that it was not at all intuitive. You might try looking on the manufacturers web site, in their forum, to see if anyone describes doing this. Their web site is:
www.ezbsystems.com
You also just noted that you found a note about using
imgburn to do this. Feel free to try it but it looks to me like that was designed to work with Windows XP. Windows XP boot was very different than Win 7, Vista, 8.x, 10, and 11 so I suspect that it may not work, but by all means do try it. I hope that it does work!
2) Since you do not want to install the ADK, could we possibly compromise? Attached to this post I have placed a copy of JUST the OSCDIMG program from the ADK. I hope that this is okay since it is a free download from Microsoft. If you are willing to try this, below are the step-by-step instructions. If you do not want to do this, I understand. My thinking is merely that this will allow you to get the job done. Then you can take your time finding a program that better suits your needs, but in the meantime, you at least have a useable ISO image that will work.
If you absolutely do not want to do this, that is okay. Please just understand that I am simply trying to help as best as I can because I CAN GUARANTEE that this method works, so long as you have a valid thumb drive that you are using for the source files

. This method is so simple that from the time you start reading this message to having a completed ISO image should be WAY less than 10 minutes.
Step-by-step instructions
1) Download the ZIP file found in this post and drop it on your desktop. Extract the one file in that ZIP file onto your desktop. The file is called oscdimg.exe. The end result should be that you have a file called oscdimg.exe on your desktop.
2) Make sure to plug in the thumb drive from which we want to create the bootable ISO image.
3) Open a command prompt.
4) Run the commands below. In the commands below I am using
D: as the location for the thumb drive that has the Windows files. We will use the files from that drive to create the ISO image. If D: is not the correct drive letter, simply substitute the correct drive letter. Note that this drive letter appears
three times in the long command starting with
oscdimg. You need to replace all three instances with the correct drive letter for your thumb drive. The screenshot below clearly shows where all three of these are located. When done, you will have the ISO image on your desktop. It will be called
Windows.iso. You can rename it to anything that you want. I estimate that the final size of the image will be somewhere between 5GB and 6GB in size.
Here are the commands to run:
Code:
C:
cd \users\%username%\desktop
oscdimg -m -o -u2 -udfver102 -l"Windows" -bootdata:2#p0,e,b"d:\boot\etfsboot.com"#pEF,e,b"d:\efi\microsoft\boot\efisys.bin" "d:\" "c:\users\%username%\desktop\Windows.iso"
exit
