Re: SDI Manager

From: Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\) (sbrcin_at_ptt.yu)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:35:44 +0100

Unfortunately you are the only one who can help you with this problem.

sdimgr /pack is used for other purposes it can't compact partition of disk
data (even if they are empty).

Only (nonstandard) solution that I'm using as a work around is:
1. Create virtual disk in file. (during the creation of file you will have
content of whole file(disk) are zeroes)
2. Use diskmanager to partition and format this disk with FAT. (It is
imperative to use FAT, since NTFS has some data sectors on the end of
partition)
3. Do only once copy of files from your HDD partition to this virtual
partition.
4. Use sdimgr to capture image of this disk or partition to SDI file.
5. Now you will have SDI file that have data in your case in first 8-10 MB
and after that you will have only zeroes.
6. Trim file size (after the last non zero sector.)

Now you will have small SDI file that can be used with custom bootloaders
for instance.

Regards,
Slobodan

"Manoj Alappat" <Manoj.Alappat@catalinamarketing.com> wrote in message
news:OLlkPX$9DHA.2308@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I created a disk with size 128mb(FAT) using sdi loader and diskmanager. I
> copied only 5 MB of data to the virtual disk. Af ther that i diconnected
the
> drive and ran "sdimgr /pack <name of sdi file> hoping it will reduce the
> size of the sdi file. But the size of the sdi file remains 128mb itself.
> MSDN says /pack option will compact the file to get rid of free space. Can
> any one help me in this regard?
>
> Thanks,
> Manoj Alappat
>
>

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