Microsoft DVD contains 50Gb data :o

[shantanu]

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 :
http://www.thecomputernext.com/mygod.jpg

[CadCrazy]

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

[shantanu]

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

[ThinkFree]

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.

[infra_red_dude]

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.

[CadCrazy]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

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.

[shantanu]

but its cool man !

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

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.

[praka123]

heck! I thought it is some vi$ta bug

[CadCrazy]

Originally Posted by praka123

heck! I thought it is some vi$ta bug

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

[narangz]

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

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

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

[anispace]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

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

[din]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

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.

[Kl@w-24]

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!

[Faun]

anyone remember kkrieger ?
lolz

[Kl@w-24]

Originally Posted by T159

anyone remember kkrieger ?
lolz

Huuuh boy!!! That was some game!!
Sadly, it brought my 6200TC to its knees....

[confused]

Originally Posted by CadCrazy

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

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by CadCrazy

. 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

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

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

[ax3]

cool .........

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by Sukhdeep Singh

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

Thats 'cdimage'.

[raksrules]

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.

[chesss]

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

[dOm1naTOr]

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.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by chesss

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

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

Thats 'cdimage'.

Right! I remember now Thanks

[NucleusKore]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

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

[mehulved]

Funny how misinformed people misinterpret the facts and spread FUD.

[Lucky_star]

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.

[shantanu]

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

[chesss]

Originally Posted by Sukhdeep Singh

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