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Author win rar wont let me extract anything bigger than 4gb..
Jas
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17th Feb 08 at 21:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
any idea's why
John
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17th Feb 08 at 21:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Is your hard drive formatted as fat32?
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two are and two arent :\
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Does it let you extract it to a drive thats formatted in ntfs?
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il try now
fat 32 doesnt
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FAT32 has a file size limit of 4gig.
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that is shit would explain why I couldnt move those 6gb files onto my hdd
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Not much reason to have any drive over 32 gb formatted as fat now anyway.
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i cant reformat now as the drive is 500gb and has 300gb of data
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Just run the command:

convert X: /fs:ntfs
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
Just run the command:

convert X: /fs:ntfs




how where etc?

thanks tim
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Start > Run > cmd (replacing X: with the drive letter of your choice obviously)

[Edited on 17-02-2008 by Tim]
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just run it from a command prompt

start, run, cmd
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it says enter current volume for this drive
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what drive letter is fat32?
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got it all now, says i need to clean disk first
so im doing that and its taking FOOOOOOOOOOREVER

 
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