Extracting rar file to iso

[Rupe]

Anyone know about this?

Downloaded a torrent, that has loads of RO files, and one Rar file. I'm trying to extract the rar file to get an ISO I can put on disk, but it gets nearly all the way through and doesn't do it. It comes up with error # 25136, error writing to file, could not be extracted correctly.

If someone knows how to sort this out send me a pm or some thing.

Thanks

[xwhatsit]

You're doing the right thing in terms of extracting the sole RAR file; the others are the rest of the archive (they'll be extracted automatically).

Sounds like you're using WinACE. Try WinRAR; it seems to be a little bit more stable. If still farked, probably a bit of the download is corrupt. Can you have your bittorrent client verify the files completely?

[Gremlin]

xerxesdaphat is correct

1) use winrar, the eval version is free anyway
2) extracting the main file will extract the whole thing
3) make sure wherever you are extracting to has enough disk space to handle the second copy comfortably. The extraction does not replace the files
4) its quite possible one of the files is corrupt, does happen with torrents. Depending on client, you should be able to re-download the affected file, without downloading the entire thing again.

Also quite possible someone has deliberately screwed with one file, mucking it up. Possibly check some of the torrent sites that host it, that have comments, and see if anyone has left anything about issues.

[KiwiRat]

I try to avoid downloading these types of torrents for the same reasons listed above.

Of course if it's a movie, doco, etc, that I absolutely must have (and I mean must have in a "Mummy, I want an ice cream" type of way) then I am prepared to gamble.

But mostly RARs just succeed in pissing me off.

[Rupe]

ok, tried using winrar. It did the same thing, but came up with this message;
! There is not enough space on the disk.
! Write error: only NTFS file system supports files larger than 4 GB


Any ideas on this would be great

[sosman]

ok, tried using winrar. It did the same thing, but came up with this message;
! There is not enough space on the disk.
! Write error: only NTFS file system supports files larger than 4 GB


Any ideas on this would be great

Sounds like yr hard drive has the fat32 formatt & needs to be reformatted to NTFS formatt,except if its the same drive yr windows is installed on,it might be better to get a new harddrive added to yr machine & 500gigs drives $130 bucks now!

[Nordy]

I second that, easier to get a new harddrive for storage.

check out pricespy (http://www.pricespy.co.nz) for some good prices

[Rupe]

I second that, easier to get a new harddrive for storage.

check out pricespy (http://www.pricespy.co.nz) for some good prices


oh well that will have to wait. Thanks for everones help anyway

[xwhatsit]

Not really familiar with Windows, but didn't their used to be a utility around that converted FAT32 drives to NTFS drives?