Help with files .part1.rar, .part2.rar, etc
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006When an uploader wants to upload something,its best to make the upload as small as possible,(saves on downloading time),thus he/she will compress the files.
they are split into little archives…the size dependant on the actual initial image size/format.
First of all, you have to download ALL the parts…
TO OPEN THEM,YOU WILL NEED WinRar INSTALLED ON YOUR PC
The first thing you must do after installing WinRAR is to untick this tab.
OPTIONS/SETTINGS/FILE INTERGRATION
If you dont do this,when you download a set of rar files,the chances are you will extract the iso,and that iso will have the WinRar icon associated with the iso,and this will make you think it needs extracting again.
this is why sometimes people complain that they have a a bunch of game files instead of the iso image,thats because they have extracted it again.
You should only ever have to extract a set of rar archives once
Rar files can come in many forms,under many archives
The most common being shown below
In some cases your pc may not recognise them,and they will look like this
However,we know they are rar archives because they will have an extension like..001 .002 .003
Basically,when the image was compressed with winrar the option was selected to split the image into lots of rar files
TAKE NOTE..IF YOU HAVE LOTS OF RAR FILES,YOU ONLY NEED TO EXTRACT THE IMAGE FROM ONE OF THEM
DO NOT EXTRACT EACH RAR FILE INDIVIDUALLY
In simpleton terms YOU ONLY DO THE EXTRACTION PROCESS ONCE
As all the info contained inside the different rar files will be re-joined back together to form the original image
It is possible you may just have 1 rar file,it depends on who and how they made it
step 1
Open the folder which contains the rar files,and do as follows.
See how i have chosen the first rar file from the bunch.
Just right click on it,and select EXTRACT HERE
Thats all there is to it…however
This is where some people run into a bit of trouble,and you get questions like..
1)Mine dont look like that?
2)Mine dont have that extension?
3)MY files have this wierd icon,and i dont know it is
4)They look like this
5)When i right click,i dont have the option to extract here,i do have the option to open,but when i try that,all i get is this window,saying Windows cannot open this file?
It will look like this
So,Do as the above picture shows,then follow the 3 steps shown in the diagram below
1)Browse for the program WinRAR
2)Tick the tab
3)Click OK
Now because you have chosen this route to open the file WinRAR will open itself,and the contents of the rar files will show
Depending on what you have downloaded,this may be a ISO/BIN/AVI etc etc
Now you have 2 choices,..
1)You can extract the contents from there,simply by drag/dropping it somewhere else
2)You can close WinRAR, and go back and try to “Extract Here again. (This time Windows knows to do with the file,because you ticked that TAB,rememeber?
NOTE:
On some versions of WinRar, it has problems with some file extensions,and even when selecting the “open with winrar” option,it never recognises the file extension,this applies commonly to the rar archives with the extension .001
Dont panic however,as WinRAR has the option to manually add user defined archive extensions
OPTIONS/SETTINGS/INTERGRATION/add the file extension in the “user defined archive extension” tab
See diagram
job done
you have now successfully extracted the contents of your rar files,and you can do what the hell you like with it.
You have to use HJSplit to join the parts
