How can I decompress a 4 gig file?

[Demitre]

I have this 4.3gig file rared up, but I can't decompress it; winrar gives a write error: only ntfs supports files larger than 4gig.

I am using win2k and fat32. Is there anyway I can decompress this file?

 

[Need4Speed]

convert to ntfs

 

[bsobel]

Not to a single file.
Bill

 

[Budman]

Cant have a file bigger than 1 gig on fat32,convert your drive to NTFS

 

[Ynog]

I didn't think you could have a single file bigger than 4 GB on NTFS. Could be wrong if I am, what is the max file size?

 

[Need4Speed]

i have files larger than 4Gb on my xp system

 

[EeyoreX]

Cant have a file bigger than 1 gig on fat32

FAT 32 can have a file size of up to 4GB.

I didn't think you could have a single file bigger than 4 GB on NTFS. Could be wrong if I am, what is the max file size?

NTFS can have a file up to the maximum volume size of 2TB. I Googled up a handy chart that compares various flavors of file system.

\Dan

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[Budman]

Originally posted by: EeyoreX

Cant have a file bigger than 1 gig on fat32

FAT 32 can have a file size of up to 4GB.

I didn't think you could have a single file bigger than 4 GB on NTFS. Could be wrong if I am, what is the max file size?

NTFS can have a file up to the maximum volume size of 2TB. I Googled up a handy chart that compares various flavors of file system.

\Dan

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I guess you're right, 4 gig max on fat32. I tried it before & i had a dvd image i wanted to copy to a fat32 partition & I could not do it. the image was 4.37gigs

 

[spyordie007]

I'm surprised nobody posted the FAQs on this:
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=63

 

[EeyoreX]

I'm surprised nobody posted the FAQs on this:
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=63

Uh... Oh yeah... The FAQ... Uh... I like charts. So pretty with their straight lines and all.

\Dan