Darth Vader
From the Dark Side
Today I decided to burn the latest Windows 10 Enterprise iso to a DVD. The size is reported as 4.7GB in which ever OS that I use and I used 3! The DVD-R that I've used for years is also stated as 4.7GB.
Soooo I try to burn the iso to a DVD without any luck I try three different DVD drives of various vintages on two computers using Linux, Windows and Mojave and they all report that the DVD is too small. Just to check I have an all-in Windows 10 OS iso that contains (I believe) every version except the Enterprise. At least there was a long list of OS that it contains. This iso does burn to a DVD-R and boots up.
It turns out that the latest Enterprise version downloaded from the M$ website is 4,723,982,336 Bytes. However a DVD-R has a maximum size of 4,700,000,000 Bytes whilst a DVD+R(W) has 4,700,372,992 Bytes (figures from OSTA) so that none of the standard formats can hold this latest release.
Incidentally according to several web calculators 4.7GB should come out as 5046586572.8Bytes!!!
I'll have to try and boot this release from a USB thumb drive but its a pain in VMWare as it doesn't natively support booting from this media although I have foxed it in the past.
Perhaps I have missed something?
Cheers,
DVD
Soooo I try to burn the iso to a DVD without any luck I try three different DVD drives of various vintages on two computers using Linux, Windows and Mojave and they all report that the DVD is too small. Just to check I have an all-in Windows 10 OS iso that contains (I believe) every version except the Enterprise. At least there was a long list of OS that it contains. This iso does burn to a DVD-R and boots up.
It turns out that the latest Enterprise version downloaded from the M$ website is 4,723,982,336 Bytes. However a DVD-R has a maximum size of 4,700,000,000 Bytes whilst a DVD+R(W) has 4,700,372,992 Bytes (figures from OSTA) so that none of the standard formats can hold this latest release.
Incidentally according to several web calculators 4.7GB should come out as 5046586572.8Bytes!!!
I'll have to try and boot this release from a USB thumb drive but its a pain in VMWare as it doesn't natively support booting from this media although I have foxed it in the past.
Perhaps I have missed something?
Cheers,
DVD