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    Size of X220 recovery discs

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by psychopomp1, Nov 12, 2011.

  1. psychopomp1

    psychopomp1 Notebook Consultant

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    I specifically went out and bought a spindle of 8.5gb DVD+R DL disks to minimize the number of DVDs i had to burn when creating recovery disks from my X220 but it appears i might have wasted my money and should have used standard single layer DVDs. This is the data size on each of the 3 dual layer recovery DVDs created:

    Disk 0: 0.29gb

    Disk 1: 7.24gb

    Disk 2: 1.13gb

    Anyone else find the above sizes a bit weird? Surely all the above data could have fitted on 1 DL DVD? Just feel like i've been ripped off and could/should have used standard 4.7gb DVDs :(
     
    psychopomp1, Nov 12, 2011
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    IIRC, the first disk is the "boot media", and while it is small, I think it has to go on it's own disk, so you can't do much about that. Then the subsequent 8.37GB might just be slightly too big to fit on a dual-layer disk.

    So yes, if you already had standard DVDs, you probably should have just used them, but DVDs are like a dime dozen these days, so no use crying over spilled milk.
     
    Commander Wolf, Nov 12, 2011
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