Burning Split+Rar'd ISO to DVD

[rabbit]

Okay, so I've got this ISO, but it's split into 19 parts, and each part is rar'd.  When I open the any of the rars, the ISO part inside is small (49mb, IIRC).  When I unrar it, each part inflates to the size of the whole ISO, and joining them just makes a rediculously huge ISO (30gb before I stopped and deleted it).  I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to burn it -.-

PS: Windows XP

[Ergot]

Check your calculations... 19 parts x 49 mb != 30 gb :\

[rabbit]

When I unrar, each part is inflated to the full size of the ISO.  Each part rar'd is 49mb.  The inflation is "this file's total size is bigger than what is in me [the rar]...filling with nulls".

[Ergot]

When I unrar, each part is inflated to the full size of the ISO.  Each part rar'd is 49mb.  The inflation is "this file's total size is bigger than what is in me [the rar]...filling with nulls".

Yes... but if you able to compress a fullsized iso in 49 mb... you're a god.  When you extract the first one it should continue on to the rest and repiece the whole file.

[MyndFyre]

When I unrar, each part is inflated to the full size of the ISO.  Each part rar'd is 49mb.  The inflation is "this file's total size is bigger than what is in me [the rar]...filling with nulls".

Yes... but if you able to compress a fullsized iso in 49 mb... you're a god.  When you extract the first one it should continue on to the rest and repiece the whole file.

I can do it.  There wouldn't be much data, though.

[Chavo]

When I unrar, each part is inflated to the full size of the ISO.  Each part rar'd is 49mb.  The inflation is "this file's total size is bigger than what is in me [the rar]...filling with nulls".

The rar format is pretty smart. Normally in a split rar, the decompressing software will automatically load the subsequent pieces and will output the compressed files in its joined form.  Unless something is wrong, unraring one part is really unraring + joining all of the individual parts.  The software just does it behind the scenes.  Are you sure the iso that is deflated from unraring one of the split pieces is not in fact the entire iso?

[rabbit]

I dunno.  It's 19 rar files, I assumed it'd be 19 ISO files too, and I'm not going to load a 3gb file in a hex editor to check out nulls.

[Ergot]

Delete what you have except the rar files.
Extract the first rar file. It should go on to the next and piece them by itself.
Check the file size of the iso it extracted. It should be enough to fill a CD since XP isn't that big.
Burn it.

[Hitmen]

The rar format is pretty smart. Normally in a split rar, the decompressing software will automatically load the subsequent pieces and will output the compressed files in its joined form.  Unless something is wrong, unraring one part is really unraring + joining all of the individual parts.  The software just does it behind the scenes.  Are you sure the iso that is deflated from unraring one of the split pieces is not in fact the entire iso?

Win. Just open any one of the pieces and extract it, it will do the rest.

[rabbit]

Delete what you have except the rar files.
Extract the first rar file. It should go on to the next and piece them by itself.
Check the file size of the iso it extracted. It should be enough to fill a CD since XP isn't that big.
Burn it.

I'm using Windows XP, not burning it.

Anyway, yeah, I was being stupid.  It never said it was also extracting other parts, so I assumed it wasn't.  I'm playing it now :)

(PS: It was Soul Calibur 3 for PS2)

[Joe]

Out of curiocity, how did you burn the bad byte to make it run on a PS2?

[rabbit]

I didn't.  I have a special tool.

[Newby]

I dunno.  It's 19 rar files, I assumed it'd be 19 ISO files too, and I'm not going to load a 3gb file in a hex editor to check out nulls.

If there are .r00, .r01, .r02 files, etc., unrar the first one.

[Chavo]

I dunno.  It's 19 rar files, I assumed it'd be 19 ISO files too, and I'm not going to load a 3gb file in a hex editor to check out nulls.

If there are .r00, .r01, .r02 files, etc., unrar the first one.

Shouldn't matter which one you choose, winrar starts with the first one regardless (assuming it exists).