ISO Image over 4GB

[Amajed]

Hi every one

I was planing on removing some components so I can make an fully up to date with a Drivers and some tweaks and unattended Windows installtion copy

If I dont remove components I ended up with a larger than 4GB ISO which vlite dont recomended that, and if I ignore the warning I got a corropt ISO Image that dont even reach 1.5GB

if I remove components the SP2 wont installed and I will end up with an Error: ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND(0x80070002)

My current Flash memory is 4GB but I can get a larger Flash memory (maybe 16GB) but the problem as I said vlite dont recomend a larger than 4GB ISO Image

so what can I do to get a larger than 4GB ISO Image ?

Sorry for my bad language, and thank you for reading my problem

[dead0]

if you have waik installed, you could use oscdimg tool to create the iso?

[aviv00]

convert ur drive to ntfs

[Amajed]

Yes I do have waik installed, I'll take a look and see what I can do with it. Ty

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to aviv00, My HDD is NTFS

let me tell u how I do it,

first I make an ISO Image from vlite then I Mount the image to a v drive by daemon tools after that I copy all the files from the v drive to a Flash memory

if I look inside the v drive I only see 1.5GB but if I check the ISO it tells me its 4.6GB and when I copy the files to a Flash memory it tells me its only 1.5GB

so whats the problem ?

Edited June 16, 2009 by Amajed

[Kelsenellenelvian]

It's the optimization methods that the programs use.

As for the 4 gig limit it is not from fat32 or ntfs it is the udf dvd format. It CANNOT (the wim file) go above the 4 gig mark because setup simply cannot see and use it.

I have seen and heard of people having success going over the limit ONLY by using special programs to order the files before placing them on the disk.

[Tomorrow]

Well most ppl should not run into this issue as even with x64 you still have to integrate a ton of things to reach such big WIM number

[cluberti]

convert ur drive to ntfs

No need. FAT32 can handle drives up to 2TB, but the Windows disk management and format utilites are limited on purpose in formatting removable USB media. Use a 3rd party format tool, like the HP USB formatter tool found on the 'net, and you can copy a source as large as you want to a USB key and it will work, formatted FAT32.

As for the 4 gig limit it is not from fat32 or ntfs it is the udf dvd format. It CANNOT (the wim file) go above the 4 gig mark because setup simply cannot see and use it.

I have seen and heard of people having success going over the limit ONLY by using special programs to order the files before placing them on the disk.

Not actually true, it's the media. If you do it from a DVD, you are correct - but if you use a USB key (as I've been harping here lately, for some reason ), there is no size limit. In fact, I used oscdimg to make a 21GB ISO of a source with all sorts of WIMs of differing sizes, 2 of them 5.1 and 5.2GB respectively, and all work fine from a 64GB USB key formatted FAT32 with the nt60 bootsector (obviously I don't have optical media that will hold 20+GB of data). I also have a 18GB WIM (huge OS and software load) that works fine from the key as well, and works fine from PXE boot. It appears to be an optical media install problem only.