So is this forum dead? Cuz I have a ? for anyone whose here.

Wideawake · Post by **Wideawake** » 24 Jun 2006, 20:18

If anyone is out there and this forum is not DEAD then anyone who can help me let me know. My ? is Once I have split an large .iso into smallers ones, extacly do I go about burning and installing the program, I split? The program was 3.13GB and was cut to fit on cd-rs. I have tried several ways and wasted a good bit of cds. Heres a screenshot of the split files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Mike

Post by **zarevak** » 25 Jun 2006, 03:47

Don't worry. This forum is alive

Please just use a better subjects for your initial posts, so anyone with similar problem can find it.

Just running the MS-DOS Batch file (the one with cog-wheel icon) should combine the files together (if you have NTFS - I'm not sure, if FAT32 can support 3.13GB files)

BTW: Looks like official Windows Vista BETA 2 x86 ISO

its wideawake forgot to · Post by **its wideawake forgot to** » 25 Jun 2006, 04:01

yea its vista

thanks for replying, but I wanna know since the .iso are labeled .iso.0001 do I burn these as a .iso or do I have to change the file name to do that? once burned, do I simiply copy all data to new pc and then run the batch file? cuz I've tried several things, none working though. any detailed help would be appreciated. and thanks for any help and ur quick response.
~mike

SvA · Post by **SvA** » 25 Jun 2006, 13:01

its wideawake forgot to wrote:... since the .iso are labeled .iso.0001 do I burn these as a .iso or do I have to change the file name to do that?

No, after splitting your .iso, you've got just fragments. You need to burn them as data files. If they are too large to fit on a data CD, combine them and split into smaller parts.

But since you will need to burn the original .iso to a DVD anyway, in order to be able to install, you might want to do this right away.

I don't know, whether it was possible to create a set of CDs from the DVD which then can be used for installation. But if it is possible, you will have to extract the individual files from the .iso image and author the CDs from them. You cannot just chop up the image and use the fragments for installation. There is no generic way to install from CDs if your source is a DVD image.

The name of the files is irrelevant, since the file's data is not what it needes to be (it's part of an ISO image but ought to be a complete ISO image in order to be burned as one.)

its wideawake forgot to wrote:once burned, do I simiply copy all data to new pc and then run the batch file?

If you need to transfer you .iso image to a different computer in order to burn the DVD, and you need to do this by way of CDs, you need to burn the parts to Data CD, then copy all parts to the same directory on the target disk and then run the batch file to recreate the .iso image, which then must be burned to DVD (unless used with a virtual PC).

Remark: From your picture, I wonder about the .iso file and its size. The rest of the files look like the result of a split with servant salamander's plugin. But this one is odd.

Mem · Post by **Mem** » 25 Jun 2006, 21:28

zarevak wrote:(if you have NTFS - I'm not sure, if FAT32 can support 3.13GB files)

FAT32 can handle 4GB files, for some DVD images it may be enough, but NTFS is really better choice