aight heres the deal. i have a 7 gig .iso i need to get off my hard drive. my burner does not support dual layer dvds, compression only took off a gig or so, my external HD and all my flash drives are FAT32 so im restricted to 4 Gb. i dont know how to chop .iso's so what can i do?

if you know a good hosting site that will take 7 Gb let me know.

 

Download 7zip.

Let the installer add to the context menu. Right click on the file and goto the 7zip menu. Choose "add to archive". Select 7zip for the type and in the lower right (I think) of that window you can "split into volumes". Choose the size that works best. Copy and burn the splits files up as needed.

 

Same exact thing can be done with WinRAR. I didn't get the part about external HDs, FAT32 and 4gb. Why are you restricted to 4gb again?

 

or you could reformat one of them there flash drives.

 

FAT32 can't support files over 4GB in size. WinRar works too but 7zip has better compression and overall I think it is a better application. 7zip can make zip, rar, and other files with ease.

 

I use my blackberry or droid as a USB flash drive. Both have 16 gb chips

 

Reformat your external HD, unless there's some reason you need it to be fat32.

 

If you decide you want the external to be NTFS you don't have to reformat.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

You can't go back to FAT32 without reformatting though.

Also to note your usb thumb/flash drives should probably stay FAT, although I think the actual format type is VFAT.

The reason FAT32 is limited to 4GB file sizes is the same reason that if you have a 32-bit OS and 4 GB of ram installed you won't be able to see all of it in Windows (usually 2.8 - 3.5 GB).

2^32 = 4294967296 bytes = 4096 MB = 4 GB.

 

thanks guys. ill try to chop it up. i assume there wont be any problems hashing when i combine them back on another hd.

edit- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

excellent

 

Using one of the zip utilities we mentioned will re-construct the original for you.