How to save uncompressed drivers on DVD?

If it is your desire to have the drivers uncompressed and used as part of your installation... You can't

The maximum path length for the oempnp entry in winnt.sif file is 4096 characters. We exceeded that years ago.

Tell me what you are trying to do and perhaps I can offer a soution.

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ODD (Optical Disk Drives) Are very slow... the only thing that a ODD is slower at than coping a large file off is copying thousands of small files...

WE have done extensive testing on this... it is actually much faster to extract the archives to the HDD than to copy the uncompressed files off the ODD... Belive it or not we also have recently discovered it is even faster to first copy the archives to the HDD and then extract them.

Try it yourself

extract all the files and burn them to DVD then time a copy to HDD. Compare that to extracting the archives from the HDD. then compare that to copying the archives first to the HDD then extracting them...

We have been doing this for seven years if there were a faster way we would be doing it.

BTW we are going to be making copy the archives to HDD then extract an option (M3)

If you goal is to increase speed? then copying thousands of tiny files off an ODD is not the answer, that is / would be MUCH slower than the current method.
related post / discussion is here http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=3323

Again please test for yourself... Post your results if you like

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same reason... DVD is to slow. each device would have to wait for the entire 3 gig of drivers on the DVD to be searched. At DVD speeds. It is faster to copy them to the HDD first so that the searches are at HDD speeds not the painfully slow DVD speeds...

I am begining to tire of answering this same question over and over again...
We are already doing this the fastest way possible.
no one in five years has been able to figure out how to do it any faster. we get over 6 million downloads a month and have been getting feedback from our users for seven years....

If you like you can  (on your own time) try to find a faster way to do it THEN let us know what it is.
If you are able to do this then you are smarter than hundreds of millions of other IT professionals.
Otherwise i consider this question "Asked and Answered"

Have a great day!

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