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Re: Archiving VHD images to a USB device, 2GB zip limit
Steve Jain [MVP] wrote: Quote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:38:30 +0100, d d <go_on_try_and_sp@xxxxxx_me.com>
> wrote:
> Quote:
>> I know you could say this isn't a Virtual PC problem (but please don't).
>>
>> I'm trying to archive some of my rarely used VHD files to a USB drive
>> and I've noticed that VHD files compress quite well (using XP's "send to
>> compressed folder"). I've seen the zip files come out between 33% and
>> 50%, which if you're arching 100GB's worth of VHDs is very nice saving.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there's a well known and MS-admitted problem with files
>> over 2GB that they can become corrupted, so it won't even try and create
>> them.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to compress my larger VHDs that range from 2GB
>> up to 16GB? I know there's some kind of way (in VPC somewhere) of
>> compressing them. If I recall correctly, you first do a defrag inside
>> the VM, then there's some external tool which makes the file smaller
>> somehow. I could use a refresher on that process, but even after all
>> that, I'd still like to zip the final file to get the optimal
>> compression. Even an external 500GB drive seems to fill up easily these
>> days  >
> WinRAR? Doesn't have near the limitations of ZIP. Good one! WinRAR does the job nicely. |