I have an 8GB, sandisk flash drive and i just formatted it using windows. It has no data on it, yet it won't let me save a 4.37 GB iso file to it, saying "Drive is too full". The drive is formatted in fat32 and windows doesn't give me any choices to format with NTFS. IS that the reason why i can't save the file eventhough i have enough free space?
That's correct. FAT32 can only take files up to 4GB. As far as I'm aware, removable disks can not be formatted using NTFS. My suggestion to you is to rar the .iso into two parts, then unrar it at the other end.
Here are the steps, based on Vista, administrator privliges and UAC off. 1.) Insert flash drive, close whatever pops up on the screen. 2.) On the keyboard, click [START BUTTON}+R to bring up the run dialogue. 3.) Type CMD, press enter - If any windows pop up after this step, close them. 4.) Type "diskpart" 5.) type "list disk" - remeber what number it lists (most PCs, it will be 1) 6.) Type "select disk X" (where X is the number from step 5) 7.) Type "Clean" 8.) Type "create partition primary" (some cheap drives will give you an error here, but sandisk should not) 9.) Type "select partition 1" 10.) Type "active" 11.) Type "format quick fs=ntfs" 12.) Type "assign" 13.) Type "exit" You can now put files over 4GB on the drive. You can also copy your windows vista install disk onto the drive (as far as I know, this is the only way to have a fully up-to-date vista64 install medium as dvd does not support NTFS) Sammorris - Isn't your 750 external drive formated with NTFS? Isn't that a removable USB drive? And who uses RAR anymore? Check out 7-zip.org
By far the most common file format for compression is still .rar. I never saw any advantage to using 7zip in compression time or file size. External hard disks are not 'removable disks'.
Yeah, winrar is still pretty much the golden standard for file compression. And IIRC WinRAR is multithreaded too. It's certainly faster since I put in my quad core
