its now 900+ Mb in size, when it loads it into nlite it says it is 900+ mb installation size, but it burn to a normal disk fine, the orignal iso is about 600Mb in size. what's Going on here?

Mike

you messed up somewhere lol

No Sh*t sherlock...

i've found the problem, i had to unpack the iso file so that nlilte could look at it, when it's unpacked its 980 Mb big...

soo, the question therefore remains, why can't nlite compress as well as it obviously should be able to?

so actually i did nothing wrong, ner.

mike

it should be roughly the same size as the .iso file.

my xp+sp3 iso is 603mb extracted. thats w/o any additional addons or post sp3 updates or anything removed via nlite.

I think the question is: We don`t know your ISO, but it behaves not in a normal way.

As "ccl0" mentioned, the ISO is an (mostly) uncompressed Image of the Files.

When i use nLite, i mount my original ISO with UltraISO and copy the Files with nLite to a clean Folder.

There`s no really growing of size between ISO and Folder.

Is it an original XPCD you use as Source?

and also attach your preset here .....