Recently, a friend of the author encountered an upset thing, he found that after installing Windows XP Professional and Services Pack 1a patch upgrade file, the total file size has reached 1.7GB capacity. The lmage image file backed up with
Ghost
is also 1.2GB big. It can't be stored in a CD-R burning disc, so he thought of asking for advice.
this problem can not beat me.
In general, installing Windows XP Professional does require 1.x GB of hard disk space, so the image file backed up using the Ghost
program cannot be engraved with a CD-R with a maximum capacity of 700MB. Inside the disc. In fact, there are some huge data projects in Windows XP that occupy hundreds of megabytes of capacity. You only need to remove them a bit, and then use the highest ratio compression function of Ghost
, you can use Windows XP Professional with SP1a patch. The information is completely placed on a CD. The following assumes that the user is reinstalling the Windows XP operating system and that only the SP1a patch is installed for file deletion.
a, deletion of unnecessary Windows XP Windows XP
items stored in some useless information, including system restore, hibernation and virtual memory, users as long as they are first in accordance with the following method Delete to save space.
1, System Restore itself regularly back up data on your computer for the user to select a location earlier return to good condition when there is a problem. Since this will cause some consumption of hard disk space, the user can first remove this function.
The method is: go to "Start" → "Settings" → "Control Panel" → "System Restore", the "Toggle System Restore on All Drives" item is unchecked (Figure 1).
Figure 1
2, the sleep function will store the data in the memory to the hard disk and shut down. When the computer resumes from hibernation, it can immediately return to the original operating state. The feature itself reserves hundreds of megabytes of space (depending on the capacity of the hard drive), and the user can turn it off before doing the Ghost image.
The method is: go to "Start" → "Settings" → "Control Panel" → "Power Options" → "Hibernate", here to remove the "Enable Hibernation" item (Figure 2).
Figure 2
3, the last is virtual memory, Windows XP defaults to double the memory capacity of the memory for data exchange, this is the most occupied space, the user can make it after closing it The image file capacity is greatly reduced. When restoring, it is recommended that you restart it as "system management size" to avoid the performance degradation of the computer due to the lack of virtual memory.
is: Go to "Start" → "Control Panel" → "System" → "Advanced" → "Properties" → "Settings" → "Advanced" → "Virtual Memory" → "Change", then point Select "No paging file" → "Settings" (Figure 3). Then restart the computer once, the pagefile.sys file in the system will be deleted automatically.
Figure III
4, in addition to the above items, users can also delete the "C: \\\\ windows \\\\ Driver Caches", "C: \\\\ windows \\\\ PCHEALTH \\\\ UploadLB" The files in the "C:\\\\Windows\\\\Temp" folder can also reduce tens of megabytes of hard disk space.
Second, the use after Ghost
hidden super-compression command
remove Windows XP in major large files through the aforementioned steps, the user has to save hundreds of MB hard disk space. Now with the Ghost
2003's highest compression method, you can successfully push the Windows XP image file into a 700MB capacity burning disc.
1, starting with Windows 98 computer into DOS boot disk mode, then enters Ghost
.exe directory Enter the following:
ghost -clone, mode = pdump, Src=1:1, dst=d:\\\\xpGhost gho -z9 -fx -sure
The src=1:1 in the command line means to mirror Windows XP, which is the first hard drive. Partitions (usually C:). If you install Win98 /XP dual operating system (XP in the second partition such as D: then change to 1:2; and dst = ... is the storage location of the specified image file, note that this location can not be installed XP partition; -Z9 Represents compression at the maximum compression ratio (proportional range is 1 to 9, 1 means the lowest compression ratio but fast; 9 is the highest compression ratio but slow)
2, waiting for the image file to be completed After restarting the computer, you will find that the image file size is only 671MB, which is suitable for burning into a 700MB CD-R disc for storage backup.