swilken Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 Am using Retrospect Prof V7 to back up my Windows XP lap top which has both a C and a D drive partition. After completing the initial back to a MAXTOR external hard drive, I went through the initial steps to create a recovery CD. The ISO file came out using 734,664 KB. I went back, uninstalled some unnecessary software, deleted some very large files, deleted the previous ISO file, emptied my recyle bin, etc., and started over with a brand new backup set. However the ISO file created by the disaster recovery process is still 734 Meg. Any suggestions? What determines how large this file will be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelenko Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Sally - The DR CD only installs a Windows and Retrospect 'shell'. It does NOT restore any user installed programs/applications or data => i.e., uninstalling programs/deleting files won't make any difference in the size of the iso image. To reduce the size of the iso image, you can deleted all of the subfolders within the i386 folder. Do not delete any files that are in i386, just the subfolders. After deleting the subfolders, recreate your DR iso. Again, please test the resulting DR CD. Also, if you have a spare drive, it would be a good idea to test a complete disaster recovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonaldL Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 Give this article a try: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=5989&p=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swilken Posted September 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2005 That was the problem! Thank you so much. This forum is invaluable. And I will definitely test the DR CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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