I am trying to create my own Win7 DVD from original MSDN isos with the latest April convenience package and Windows Updates fixes, but after integrating these updates in the install.wim for the 4 windows flavors its size is so huge that it doesn't fit on 1 DVD. The install.wim get bigger than 4 GB, and I had to split it to SWM files, but also with this the resulting DVD iso is bigger than the 4.7 DVD capacity. I find some online copies of custom made win7 dvd's that are very small, yet they contain "all" windows update fixes, how do they make them? how can I optimize the size of my install? I tried with the dism /export-image with max compression, but still the resulting wim was smaller by only few 10's of mbs Code: dism /Export-Image /Compress:max /SourceImageFile:\sources\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:\exported\install.wim
Could always use a dual layer dvd or make the switch the modern age with USB drives. Another alternative is to make an ISO, put a hdd in a Zalman ZM-VE300 hdd case and call it a day.
Thanks for the tip about murphy. What I refer to is the Win7 isos built by adguard (frequently found on wzor twitter), they contain 6 different editions of Windows 7 in both English and Russian, and containing the latest updates (until July 2016), and the whole is just around 3.15 GB. I am looking to make a win7 dvd with the base patches I need, for 2 or 3 languages, but cannot find the correct method to get such small image size.
First, looks like he deletes (or empties) the winsxs. Second, he uses ESD to compress the install even more and the setup is based on Windows 8 (to be able to read the ESD file).