Microsoft DVD contains 50Gb data :o

hi everyone !

i today tried to install Exchange Server 2007 from my Original Microsoft multi DVD, so i thought to take a look at the size of the content as i knew that setup might be 5 gb or so, but seeing the multilanguage setups folders i thought of seeing the content size

guess what 49.1 GB in a normal DVD :O , wtf man , i have seen original DVDs with 10gb content at most that too in a DVD9 , but 49.1 GB daymn

here is the pic :
*www.thecomputernext.com/mygod.jpg

Tera explorer infect ho chuka hai. Use some original Antivirus and scan your system thoroughly

nahi sir ! its not that , see i tried in Xp and vista both

T

Microsoft OS + Microsoft DVD. One shouldn't be surprised as MS can do anything to make their products look better than others while they aren't.

That is called Optimization. You can do this in Magic ISO. There are a certain set of files common between the versions. They are physically present only once, but they are referenced many times. When you make a copy of it, the files are copied physically multiple times.

See all those All-In-One disks on warez sites? Multiple versions of Windows, VS etc. etc. They are made the same way.

infra_red_dude said:
See all those All-In-One disks on warez sites? Multiple versions of Windows, VS etc. etc. They are made the same way.

. Dude piracy is crime. Aaj tumhare chehre se sharafat ka naqab haat chuka hai

BTW thanks for info.

but its cool man !

infra_red_dude said:
That is called Optimization. You can do this in Magic ISO. There are a certain set of files common between the versions. They are physically present only once, but they are referenced many times. When you make a copy of it, the files are copied physically multiple times.

See all those All-In-One disks on warez sites? Multiple versions of Windows, VS etc. etc. They are made the same way.

+1

Seen how Visual Studio 2008 Express Full ISO is just around 900MB but if you download indivudual component ISO, each might be 500mb or so ? Its the same reason here too.

heck! I thought it is some vi$ta bug :lol:

praka123 said:
heck! I thought it is some vi$ta bug

What else can you think other than finding faults in Elite Windows Vista

I had Windows 2000 All version MSDN CD & it had 2-3 GBs of data if I remember correctly.

infra_red_dude said:
That is called Optimization. You can do this in Magic ISO. There are a certain set of files common between the versions. They are physically present only once, but they are referenced many times. When you make a copy of it, the files are copied physically multiple times.

See all those All-In-One disks on warez sites? Multiple versions of Windows, VS etc. etc. They are made the same way.

Thanks for explaining

infra_red_dude said:
That is called Optimization. You can do this in Magic ISO. There are a certain set of files common between the versions. They are physically present only once, but they are referenced many times. When you make a copy of it, the files are copied physically multiple times.

See all those All-In-One disks on warez sites? Multiple versions of Windows, VS etc. etc. They are made the same way.

thanx for this info

infra_red_dude said:
That is called Optimization. You can do this in Magic ISO. There are a certain set of files common between the versions. They are physically present only once, but they are referenced many times. When you make a copy of it, the files are copied physically multiple times.

See all those All-In-One disks on warez sites? Multiple versions of Windows, VS etc. etc. They are made the same way.

Cool, thanks a lot for that info. Never knew that.

I've got a 7-in-1 Windows XP CD that claims to contain all versions of XP (Home, Pro & what-not). They even gave a tutorial inside that CD, explaining in detail how it was done. The same point that infra_red_dude mentioned, has been stated there too!

anyone remember kkrieger ?
lolz

T159 said:
anyone remember kkrieger ?
lolz

Huuuh boy!!! That was some game!!

Sadly, it brought my 6200TC to its knees....

CadCrazy said:
What else can you think other than finding faults in Elite Windows Vista

CadCrazy said:
. Dude piracy is crime. Aaj tumhare chehre se sharafat ka naqab haat chuka hai

BTW thanks for info.

lolz.. isn't it unfortunate? I still use a licensed version of Vista

infra_red_dude said:
That is called Optimization. You can do this in Magic ISO. There are a certain set of files common between the versions. They are physically present only once, but they are referenced many times. When you make a copy of it, the files are copied physically multiple times.

See all those All-In-One disks on warez sites? Multiple versions of Windows, VS etc. etc. They are made the same way.

Right! Back in 2002, my friend came with WinXP 9 in 1 and i was amzed to see 3.5 GB in it. I googled and found someone had given the MS DOS utitly at MSFN forums on how to do this

Sukhdeep Singh said:
I googled and found someone had given the MS DOS utitly at MSFN forums on how to do this

Thats 'cdimage'.

I too had a CD (standard 700 MB) one which had around 1.4 GB of data on it and co-incidently that was also some Microsoft Product. I verified it by copying it on my machine.

well a normal 10mb txt file can be easily compressed to 1mb .
I guess all these language files/folder wld also have been compressed to 1/10 of their size = 5gb

me too have seen discs of Windows 2003 server Enterprice + Business disc on single CD, but when i tried to copy it to HDD[file copy], it took more than 3GB.

chesss said:
well a normal 10mb txt file can be easily compressed to 1mb .
I guess all these language files/folder wld also have been compressed to 1/10 of their size = 5gb

Nope, Its the method which Infra_red_dude mentioned

infra_red_dude said:
Thats 'cdimage'.

Right! I remember now

Thanks

infra_red_dude said:
That is called Optimization. You can do this in Magic ISO. There are a certain set of files common between the versions. They are physically present only once, but they are referenced many times. When you make a copy of it, the files are copied physically multiple times.

See all those All-In-One disks on warez sites? Multiple versions of Windows, VS etc. etc. They are made the same way.

Very interesting

M

Funny how misinformed people misinterpret the facts and spread FUD.

I had an mp3 cd whose file system was corrupted. So, each song showed roughly around 1 GB and the whole CD content showed 64 GB.

mehul : do you intend to say i am spreading FUD ?

Sukhdeep Singh said:
Nope, Its the method which Infra_red_dude mentioned

IMHO thats Unlikely

Coz it is unlikely for different locales to have common files. But anyways
compression works on a similar principle.. I think

An example of lossless vs. lossy compression is the following string:
25.888888888

This string can be compressed as:
25.[9]8

Wikipedia rulz

^^lzw ??

T159 said:
^^lzw ??

RLE

^^Yes that bloody inefficient dirty little algorithm

CadCrazy said:
RLE

wtp??

T159 said:
^^lzw ??

CadCrazy said:
RLE

chesss said:
wtp??

WTF????

^^FTW