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| Thread ID: 57602 | 2005-05-07 04:53:00 | what uncompressor can handle 4 gig plus files? | bendetto (7615) | Press F1 |
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| 353014 | 2005-05-07 04:53:00 | Winrar cant open any files larger than 4 gigs so i dont really know what to do. Any help is great. Thanks |
bendetto (7615) | ||
| 353015 | 2005-05-07 04:55:00 | Thats interesting, I must compress a couple DVD iso's together and then see about getting em apart, i didn't know winrar had this restriction. | Metla (12) | ||
| 353016 | 2005-05-07 04:56:00 | It may also depend on what version of windows you're using. What version of Windows are you using? Is it a rar file, zip file or other? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 353017 | 2005-05-07 05:01:00 | Im running windows xp with sp 2, and yes the file is a winrar file. | bendetto (7615) | ||
| 353018 | 2005-05-07 05:08:00 | Nah dont think Winrar is the prob. As it says on the site WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited. I guess this means rarring and unrarring a file. Unless your system is formatted in FAT32 not NTFS. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 353019 | 2005-05-07 07:07:00 | Had no trouble compressing 6.2gb of data, and then extracting it to another location. I would be looking at the format of your HD (as already suggested by Speedie) There is a convert function available to change it to NTFS. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 353020 | 2005-05-07 12:37:00 | Nah dont think Winrar is the prob. As it says on the site WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited. I guess this means rarring and unrarring a file. Unless your system is formatted in FAT32 not NTFS. Well, let's say a person have a 9GB compressed file. How should he uncompress it? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 353021 | 2005-05-07 17:08:00 | I think im formatted in fat32 because one part of the error is something about NTFS, so what should i do if i want to do this in fat32? | bendetto (7615) | ||
| 353022 | 2005-05-07 22:55:00 | You can't extract it in FAT32, that's what the prob is . FAT32 has a limit of 4GB for files . You have to convert the hard drive to NTFS thru the command prompt in XP . To extract that file . The only prob is, if you're not the person who has this 9GB file, and this other person is using any other version of Windows (ie: 98, ME), besides Windows 2000, XP, NT, or higher, you/they wont be able to extract that file at all . As 98 can't read NTFS . Have you got this file, or someone else? And if someone else, are they using NT,2000, or XP?? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 353023 | 2005-05-08 04:35:00 | With the maximum FAT32 file size of 4GB, how do you get the file? If WinRAR have that maximum capacity, you can't use WinRAR. Many years ago I found that Phil Karn's original PKZIP in DOS could make a file bigger than PKUNZIP could unpack. ;) Just by the way, a compressed file of 9GB is a Bad Thing. Any error in copying the file can cause you to lose most if not all of the contents. What compression was used? ZIP, RAR, LZW, ..., etc? There are a fair number of implementations of any of the methods. The *nix ports might have fewer limits. |
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