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| Thread ID: 61433 | 2005-09-04 22:50:00 | How to divide a large file to fit 2 CD's? | Greg (193) | Press F1 |
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| 386033 | 2005-09-04 22:50:00 | I've got a game I want to copy for a mate that's just a bit too large (the file, not my mate) to fit onto a single CD (I don't have a DVD burner). I recall some app that can allow the exe file to be divided into two, and reassembled. Can anyone help pls? Thx |
Greg (193) | ||
| 386034 | 2005-09-04 23:00:00 | Hope its a legal copy :p you might be able to use some thing like winzip to split up the file/s and span them across disks maybe. | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 386035 | 2005-09-04 23:03:00 | Oh yeah... shoulda mentioned it's actually a 100% free game. And thanks, didn't think of winzip. Problem of course is that my mate's in the USA, so if it doesn't work it'll be a waste of a lot of time. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 386036 | 2005-09-04 23:31:00 | Try this . It should work www.afterdawn.com hth |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 386037 | 2005-09-04 23:43:00 | Winzip, Winrar, they'll all do it. You can save yourself time by telling it to set the compression level to "Store" (At least in WinRAR IIRC its called that), that way it wont waste ages trying to compress a >700MB File, but rather just throw it in to the .rar container and split it :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 386038 | 2005-09-05 00:12:00 | Seems like the zip operation is the way to go, except... the file is already a self-extracting archive... So I'm unsure if this will work. Johnboy... your suggestion seems to be only for movie type files, right? |
Greg (193) | ||
| 386039 | 2005-09-05 00:21:00 | Or create ISO's for both . Depending on how big the Iso's end up for each cd . And how much data is on each cd . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 386040 | 2005-09-05 00:28:00 | i would be inclined to just rar it and span it over the cd's. tho i would make sure you use the recovery record just incase it gets a bit damged. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 386041 | 2005-09-05 06:21:00 | A self extracting archive is just a sequence of data bytes to a compression programme. It doesn't care. It just looks for ways to compress it. WinZip or WinRar will handle it with no problem. (a "store" option looks a good idea; sometimes compressing makes things bigger if they are already compressed). | Graham L (2) | ||
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