Recovery disk/files size

My notebook OS is Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
I was going to run HP recovery manager and save the recovery files to a 16 GB USB flash drive.
To my surprise the recovery files size is over 19 GB!
I do not want to burn, carry and safeguard five DVDs all my life.
USB flash drive is much safer and portable.
Please provide detailed instructions on how to get this 19 GB down to 14 GB or less.
Any useful response will be much appreciated.

good idea in that hard drives are slightly better than DVDs from safety point of view.
but since laptop's hard drive is out of question (last time i needed the recovery disks because laptop's hard drive failed) i would have to find atleast two other hard drives and occupy about 20GB space on both and hope that both do not fail if and when the time comes.
i would still prefer USB flash drive or SDHC card.
is there no one in HP smart enough to reduce the size?
or is it such a cash cow that HP does not want to let it go?
i am sure if an option to choose what gets included is provided then the user can reduce the size substantially on his/her own.
or alternatively HP can provide an option to create the disks with bare minimum required to recover.
if user wants/needs then he/she can always download the rest from HP website later on.
all this just seems a very avoidable waste of so many people's time and effort.

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