murrayE Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 Trying to make Disaster Recovery CD with Retrospect 7.5 for Windows, with the snapshot for my boot, C, partition, I get a warning message, "Disaster Recovery CD-R disc image will be over 650 MB". This never happened before (which was before junking my old PC and installing on a new PC which has accumulated far less junk than the old one. I'd sure hate to have to start searching for files to move temporarily from C elsewhere. Note that I have hardly any applications installed in C:\Program files (only those which offer no choice); and I have few file in C:\Documents and Settings (as I've redirected My Documents, My Pictures, etc., to other partitions). And I cleaned out temporary files and temp directories before trying to make the Disaster Recovery image. P.S. I used the forums' search feature and located several relevant items, but when I clicked the link to any of those items, I was returned to the main forum page -- so impossible to find the actual posts! 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=5989&p=2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucodealethea Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Mentioned folder have been inspected for large files in Retrospect App Folder, System 32/Drivers etc...nothing really significant. BUT Analyzing the image created "Restore Local Disk" with Nero Mount Image and Duplicate File Finder, I noted that the image for Disaster Recovery (around 722Mb) presents a lot of files duplicated (same size - same name) in Root Folder, Drivers and I386 folders. Is there any thing to do about this ? Please help to get rid of this 650MB! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctwist Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 This is an old thread, but it is still relevant. I had the same problem with Retrospect Professional 7.6; the size of my disaster recovery ISO file for Windows XP SP3 was 843MB. My solution was to burn a DVD instead of a CD. This is what I did: - In Retrospect, I used "Disaster Recovery" to create an ISO file, but I did not attempt to burn it. - I then used ImgBurn to burn the ISO file to a DVD. I did not need to change any settings; if any conversion of the ISO file was needed, it handled it automatically. - I was able to boot from the DVD. I haven't attempted a restore, but the DVD seems to be in the correct format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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