anyone know of a good program that compresses large files....

[GENERAL MANSON*]

Onto a cd-r disk?

[OvermindDL1]

(7-)zip them like normal?
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[General BlackDragon]

www.7-zip.org

[GENERAL MANSON*]

I forgot to add without using zip program or winrar. Just basic files and stuff from my windows sp2 cd. The contents are to big to burn .

[CmptrWz]

What is your goal? To make a bootable CD that can install windows? Or are you just including patches to run on other machines?

[Nielk1]

So you want it compressed but not in an archive and runnable on a disk?

Just get a bigger disk -.-

[GENERAL MANSON*]

Simple just burn the contents to a cd. Trying to save my copy that i had dell send me last year. Its starting to get scratched up.

I have a bootdisk or two that can boot all windows machines just cant do what i put above. pita.
                                                                                                 I like that acronym ^.

So you want it compressed but not in an archive and runnable on a disk?

Just get a bigger disk -.-

Is there a place where i can order cd-r larger then 720 meg?

[CmptrWz]

Sounds like you have an image you should be burning, not a file, which may fit after the image headers and such are stripped away.

[GENERAL MANSON*]

Sounds like you have an image you should be burning, not a file, which may fit after the image headers and such are stripped away.

Mind to elaborate. Not much knowledge on images on cds. Just for windows as far as i care .

[CmptrWz]

If you are trying to copy an existing disk then you need to use a CD copying program, not drag the contents off and onto a new one with the Windows Built-In piece of crap burning engine, as there are parts of the disk that will NOT be copied as a result.

If you have a single file then you most likely need to burn it as an image, and not as a file. Again, the Windows Built-In piece of crap burning engine will not help you.

[GENERAL MANSON*]

Just dandy. I have 2 that can burn images but have to go through 3 gigs of storage on my network mail server to even find it. I might just do that later.

Bad thing is one doesnt work well and the other works but includes Adware. 

[OvermindDL1]

Google CDBurnerXP (I am pretty sure that was the name), a good free burning software (capable of burning images like that) in the vein of the *nix versions, but for windows.
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[GENERAL MANSON*]

Google CDBurnerXP (I am pretty sure that was the name), a good free burning software (capable of burning images like that) in the vein of the *nix versions, but for windows.
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Thanks. Ill make a note of that. Trying to get a new hd first before this one quits then ill try it. Just as a precaution.

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You can also try to 'overburn' the disc, if what you're copying is just slightly larger than what a disc will hold...  overburning will keep burning as long as it gets a valid checksum back from the copy, so it goes until it hits errors.  Success is very dependant on how good of a blank you start with... 

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[TheJamsh]

i feel stupid saying this, but buy a bigger disc is the issue surely?

or use a HD DVD disc... they go up to like 20 gigs now if i remember correctly...

maybe im wrong