Hello everyone. I want to copy my Windows XP Professional CD(Purchased) to my hard-disc. Well, definitely i can copy it easily but the size of the folder where i copy it becomes more than 770 mb. When i check the properties of the CD-ROM , it shows around 530 mb of space is used, then how come the copied folder use 770 mb space. The reason why I am worried about space is i have to make a slipstream CD of Windows XP integrated with Service Pack 1 . And for that i first have to copy my XP CD to hard-disc, then integrate it with SP-1 & finally burn it with Nero . And i cannot burn it if the size is > 700 mb. Any help would be greatly appreciated . Many Thanks . Jack
Windows isnt copy protected so you can go ahead and copy-paste if you want.... if you are extracting an image using something like BIN/CUE then dont stress it too much, the BIN/CUE formats have a lot of "overhead"
Thanks for the help. Now what i've done is copied my XP disk to hard disk(size of folder is around 770mb) & then integrated it with SP1 (size increases to 785mb). So now if I burn that folder with Nero Burning Rom (using CD-ROM boot option) , will I be able to get a proper disk . Another interesting point to note is that when an image is made using Nero, the image file size is 530mb. CD-Burner -- ASUS 52x24x52 CD-R -- 690-700 Mb
Nero's NRG format is essentially a slightly modified ISO format .... which just so happens to be damn near the smallest format available ... oh an very nice burner! (i've got me one of them babies too!)
hehe .. that was quick . lol 3 minutes Actually i don't want to make a 1:1 copy of my Xp CD, instead i have to copy the files & folders of that CD to my hard disk so that the service pack installer can update those files . OK i will explain more deeply -> I copy the contents( all files n folders) of the WINXP CD to E:\XP-CD -> From E:\XP-SP1 (i extracted SP1 in this folder) , i give the command to integrate E:\XP-CD ("E:\XP-SP1\update\update.exe /s:E:\XP-CD" to be exact) -> SP1 automatically updates the folder E:\XP-CD -> Now I have to burn the updated folder E:\XP-CD to CD-R using Nero but its size is almost 790 MB . This is the problem Thanks & sorry for such long posts
So sorry to reply late. Well, one of my friends told me that Microsoft uses some technique by which many duplicate files are shown again & again while actually being present only once on the cd. I used a tool called CDImage with -o option to make an iso file. And guess what, it brought down the size to 628 MB which i easily burnt on a CD. Haha, success finally . Thanks
