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The smallest possible size of boot.sdi

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I've been annoyed by the +3Mb size of the supplied boot.sdi that is shipped with nt6.x. It is really a size overkill! My tweaked boot.sdi is now at 960 kb, or 983 040 bytes to be exact. The boot.sdi is basically an sdi with just a tiny ntfs partition image injected and a marker for the "mysterious" wim blob at the very end. Download at; http://www.mediafire.com/file/t0zzwmwwylb/boot_sdi.zip

If anyone can reduce the size further, I would be happy to inspect the file.

Why on earth did MS make it so big? Only answer can be that they are lazy and don't care about a few MB of wasted space

Joakim

Updated version 300 kB; http://mft2csv.googlecode.com/files/boot_sdi_300.zip

Details of sectors inside the latest partition image;


$Boot 0
$MFT 1-65
Root directory 66-73
$LogFile 74-586
$MFTMirr 136-143
$UpCase 136
$Secure:$SDS 137-392
$Bitmap 138
$AttrDef 139-143

The rest of the systemfiles are fully contained within $MFT

The reorganization of the ntfs metafiles was done to make it easier for those that want to decode and understand it.


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