Re: Zip file too large

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Really bad... I'm running some sort of "fix corrupt zip-files by extracting
the data from them"-program right now, but if that doesn't work I'll have to
try the PC Inspector thing again.

I cannot figure out why Windows didn't tell me to stop zipping the files
when the resulting zip-file was too large for the format to handle.

"Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" skrev:

It takes a while to scan the drive for lost/deleted files.. how bad do you
want them back?..

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Mike Hall
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User



"My nickname" <Mynickname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank You for your quick response.

I've downloaded and installed the program, but it freezes almost instantly
when it starts scanning my hard drive. Or is it just a painfully slow
process?

Btw, I'm not looking for the old deleted photos, because I formatted that
drive the hard way. I'm looking for something to make me able to see into
the
too-large-zip-file and extract my pictures from there. Is that was this
application can do?

"Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" skrev:

Use this program.. http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
..
it is called PC Inspector and it is freeware..

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Mike Hall
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User



"My nickname" <My nickname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I did a clean install of Windows a week ago to get rid of certain
unwanted
programs and before that I did a backup of my photos. It's easy in XP
so I
just used the built-in zip-tool and zipped them up and moved them to
another
harddrive before formatting and re-installing.

When I later tried to unzip the file I ran into trouble. It was corrupt
or
something. After a lot of searching and trying and thinking I think I
know
where the problem is. The file is too large. Apparently the zip-format
is
can
only work with files up to 4Gig and I think my photos were somewhat
over
that
limit.

Why am I allowed to create a zip-file that is too large? And more
importantly, how do I get my pictures back?






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