urgent help!

[thachphathien]

i am gonna slimpstreaming xp sp2, but when i copied the content of XP CD, the whole size is greater than 700mb.

but the CD size is just around 600mb.

I dont know why? Anyone helps me out

[Vel Straty]

Did you use CDIMAGE.EXE to make an ISO of your slipstreamed XPSP2? If so, then the program(CDIMAGE.EXE) optimized the ISO and made it smaller in size. You shouldn't be worried about it but be happy!

[Vel Straty]

By the way,

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D:\XPC\XPC6nlite>CDIMAGE -Lxpc6nlite -YD -N -H -X -OCI -M -D -BXPCTBOOT.BIN CDSO

URCE xpc6nlite.iso

CDIMAGE 2.47 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Premastering Utility

Copyright © Microsoft, 1993-2000. All rights reserved.

For Microsoft internal use only.

Scanning source tree complete (5934 files in 114 directories)

Computing directory information complete

Image file is 651104256 bytes (before optimization) -> 620.94140625

Writing 5934 files in 114 directories to xpc6nlite.iso

100% complete

Storage optimization saved 46 files, 36300800 bytes (6% of image)

After optimization, image file is 614803456 bytes -> 586.322265625MB

WARNING: This image contains filenames and/or directory names that are

NOT COMPATIBLE with Windows NT 3.51. If compatibility with

Windows NT 3.51 is required, use the -nt switch rather than

the -n switch.

Done.

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It comes out like above if you didn't know. Notice the red places.

[thachphathien]

I mean I have not make slipstreamed XPSP2 yet. I just copied the content of original XP CD to my harddisk in order for slipstreaming.

The XP CD is just for my laptop (Evo N800v). Can you explain more about CDImage. Is it really help to resize because i used ISOBuster 1.6 to extract the disk to my harddrive but i can't help (the size still bigger than 700mb)

[Vel Straty]

I don't know about ISOBuster and not much about CDIMAGE.exe.

I only know about CDIMAGE as it says that its from MS

CDIMAGE 2.47 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Premastering Utility

Copyright © Microsoft, 1993-2000. All rights reserved.

For Microsoft internal use only.

as it says it at the start of the CDIMAGE process.

I guess the MS's CDs are optimized so that it will fit on the 650MB, 700MB cds. You might be able to find something inside the MSFN's office 2003 threads about CDIMAGE, as I don't remember that much about office 2003 but it fits on 1CD, not a DVD and when extracted to the Hard Drive, it was about 1GB or something like that.

As for the XP CD before the optimization of another one, it was 693MB on the HD before before making the ISO, and 669MB after making the ISO w/ CDIMAGE. The size will be different from yours as my XPCD is WinXP Pro SP2 (Japanese).

Maybe you can find more stuffs related to it on the web.

I hope this helps a little.