Getting your OS Restore DVD to work with large image files

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:10:07 +0000

This week, we completed the Windows 7 x64 build for our internal Tech Community. During the testing of the OS Restore DVD we ran into a problem when attempting to restore the image from DVD.

Our custom Windows 7 64 bit image has a size of approx. 4.8 GB. This because the 64 bit version of Windows7 has a larger footprint than the 32 bit version and because we had included some applications like Office 2010 CTP and some drivers for a limited number of hardware. Since we did not want to split the content across multiple DVD’s, we had decided that we would create just one ISO with OSCDIMG.EXE life that people would need to burn on a Dual Layer DVD which provides enough capacity.

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Getting your OS Restore DVD to work with large image files