Alright, I’m new with this zip thing…well, anyways here’s my question…I want to zip (if possible) this file that’s like…2.6 MB…and I want to put it into a 2.0MB disk…I already have winzip…I thought I could do it with that…uh…yea. Sorry for wasting your time and space on this forum. I swear this is the last stupid question I’ll ask.
- Start Winzip.
- Select File->New Archive
- Type the name of the zip file you wish to create. Press OK.
- Select the file you wish to compress.
- Set compression to maximum.
- Click the Add button.
- Exit Winzip
If the file is still too big to fit on a single disk you can ‘span’ it. The files is split into two sections and ‘spanned’ across two zips to do this.
Follow the same steps as above but save the zip file (in step 3) directly to the disk (The A: drive for example) If WinZip can’t fit the file on to a single disk it will prompt you to insert a second.
When you are going to rebuild the file just double click on the .zip file stored on either disk and WinZip will prompt you for the other disk when needed.
Make sure you label the disks 1 & 2 first.
impossible in windows anyway , a loppy disk maybe 2mb but microsoft FAT system takes up a good .62mb hence when you stick it in your FDD it reads free space 1.38mb (it used to be bleedin’ 1.44mb free in win95)
your going to have to split it in a 3rd party splitter
It all really depends on how much you can compress the file, if the file is highly compressed anyhow you are not going to make it much smaller using any compression utility, if it is not very compressed then you can probably compress it less than 1.38 Mb if that is the case then what Baraqiyal suggested is perfect. If doing what Baraqiyal suggests gives you a file greater than 1.38 Mb then you will need to span 2 disks. To do this you will need to download pkzip (you can use other utilities but pkzip is the best I’ve seen) There is a 30 day free trial version available at http://www.pkware.com/ .
I Could go on and rant about people not using the search function, but it is easier just to point to the pertinent thread:
computer question
(The answer given there is the same as Baraqiyal provides, and as far as I am concerned the best.)
My only complaint regarding the OP is the title. It would be better if you had called your question something more descriptive. Maybe “Fitting big files on floppies”, or “2.6Mb file on 2.0Mb floppy”.
(I won’t discuss the spelling, as I assume that you (like me) write in a foreign language.)
While it is true that the FAT filesystem does not use the entire floppy space, this has nothing to do with Windows98 or -95. This was defined in the good old 80s, when MS released MSDOS ver 3.30. A “1.44Mb” floppy has 2880 clusters with 512 bytes each, which makes for 1474560 bytes. (=1.4062510241024 bytes). The question to ask is why this is called “1.44Mb”.
In the early 80s 3.5" (actually 90mm) floppies first came out as 720kb, which in this case meant that they had room for 720 * 1024 bytes. (At that time everyone who used computers knew that one would always lose a few bytes per file stored on the disk for indexing, so nobody actually tried to cram in 720kb on a single floppy)
Then the successor to this was released, and as for marketing reasons called 1.44Mb, although it only holds 1.4062510241024 bytes.
The entire kb/Mb/Gb/kib/Mib/Gib business is filled with strange definitions, where the hardware designers use one notion and the software people another. See my reply to this thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=84092
[sub](I must admit that I have no firsthand experience with floppies under win98, but I don’t think it differs from win95/win2k or the linux support for FAT floppies)