Slimming a vista install disk

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SaggyCheeks

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I copied my vista install disk to my hard drive in case I lost the dvd. Since I immediately lost my disk, I need to burn the copy, but it's over 6 gigs. I don't want to waste a dual layer on it, so I was wondering if there was a way to strip out the versions of vista that I don't use. Is there an easy way of doing this?
 
Something fishy about that installation disc. Vista SP1 x86 is about 2.7GB, Vista SP1 x64 is about 3.5 soooo... and realistically there is no actual "combo" disc with both on it - Microsoft had one at one time, on MSDN, which did require a dual layer disc but they pulled it within a few days. There are plenty of hacked ones out there on torrents that have both versions - x86 and x64 - on the same ISO image... but that's not what you have, right? Right? :D

If it's ~6GB, something just ain't right...
 
no... of course not... ;) actually, I got this from the ELMS program at my college (along with a copy of XP with SP3). Is there no way to strip out the versions of vista? My key is only valid for one type of vista. (Home premium x64)
 
You can use vLite to take that "disc" and yank out Home Premium, sure. The key is the same for either version, x86 or x64, so it doesn't matter. What matters is the edition, which is Home Premium. vLite takes a bit of work to get functional nowadays thanks to Microsoft making nuhi pull some of the code and requiring you to download most of the Vista AIK to get it working, but it's possible, sure.
 
If it was me, I wouldn't mess around with vLite or anything like that. I'd figure out why the image was almost twice the size it is supposed to be, and then burn the normal, standard image to a regular 4.7 GB DVD.
 
I never had problems using nLite to pare down an XP disc, but when I tried the same thing on Vista with vLite, I had nothing but problems.
 
You may have decompressed some of the data when you put it on the hard drive.
 
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