I saw a rar file that was about 1 MB but when I unzipped it; its size become 700MB. How is this possible?
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The awesome sponging that is ISO when when making 1:1 cd copies.\n\nIt just has a bunch of "empty space"(bytes filled with spacebar characters) and the compression program saves those white spaces in exponential notation rather than packing each useless byte.
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sure, open it with winrar find it at win-rar.com then compress it with a program like winzip find it at winzip.com
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Why dont you try http://www.raaga.com?\nrar files are like zip files(comressed data to save space). You can download winrar from www.rarlab.com and try it.
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hey dear,\nthe .zip or .rar files are the extension to compressed files to make them easier to donwload as they wud download fast due to small size. they are compressed using softwares called as winzip to make .zip files and winrar to make .rar files. these files can again be decompressed using the same software used to compress them like using winzip to uncompress .zip file and winrar to uncompress .rar files. u can get them from www.winzip.com and www.winrar.com. hope this helps
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No, it doesn't reduce quality at all once you unrar it again.  It's just a different way for arranging the data.  Often, though, some video or music files won't compress very well because they're already compressed (e.g. mp3s).
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You don't, you Un-Rar it first.\n\nuse WinRar - http://rarlabs.com/ to uncompress the file
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Yes if you get WinRAR you can split the file into a multi-part RAR
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may be the old one was of less size like 650 MB .. check this also ..
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yeah, winrar is best for rar files, since they did create the format. But my winiso also does rar files, don't know if it was default, i loaded so many plug-ins since i got it. don't forget 7z opens rar files too and is free... no ads or anything. also compresses the largest files. Almost all compression programs from europe can open rar. it's the most common in south america and most of europe. but i like the 7z format best since you can zip an entire drive if you want to and not get the you've reached 250 characters limit or that you've reached five subdirctory limit errors. those are the limitations of zip and rar. it's like fat16 and fat32. they see each other but you can't go past a certain limit do to the limits of the program.
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I would assume you got that on ebay from hong kong...they compress the drive to make it hold more and when you format it you take it back to its orriginal/correct size....you got screwed! I have not figuered out how to make it take 2 gigs again....I run a computer shop and I just had a customer with the same problem.\n\n-Doc-
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hey ,\n You need a software to unzip that file . go for winrar \ndownload it and unzip the file ..\n\ndownload from :\n http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar36b1.exe\n\n\nHope this Help u \n\n\nBye !!!
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RAR files have to be de-compressed using a program like Winrar and SWF files have to be converted to a format that can be read by your media player...
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You can use winrar to split file/files.\n\nInstall winrar\nselect file/files and choose add to archeive...\nthen from split to Volumes, bytes choose cd650 or cd 700mb\nand click on ok\n\n\nWinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.\n\nhttp://www.rarlab.com/\n\n\nIf you have or access DVD writer then purchase a DVD with 4.7 GB normal Single Disk and save your required file on DVD.
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No probs.. 2222 easy..\nBut You can recover the file in case, you have'nt override that used spaces that is U have'nt written a lot in disc.\nU can undelete by\nunerase\nundelete\nNorton Unerase \nFree Unerase utlity avaialble on internet.\nRestorer 2000\neDataRecovery..\njust search the free Unerase program on google.. u ll find a lot more.. :)
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ZIP is a way of compressing files so it takes up less space on your computer. The compressed file names usually end in a .ZIP extension. You can download free software to un-compress the files from the link in the Sources below.\n\nThis program supports ZIP and a few other compression formats like RAR, ARJ etc. Once you've 'un-zipped' the file you can run it as normal.
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Rar Files are c type of compressed files,\n\nThere are variuos software that can uncompress rar files.\n\nSome free ones are\nzipgenious http://www.zipgenius.it/eng/index.php\n\nOr 7zip http://www.7zip.org
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Try googling for "rar restore" or "rar recovery" or something like it, there are several recovery programs, at least for .zip's.