Compressing – How do you compress gbs into mbs, or even kbs?

Hello.. I seen and even downloaded files, that we very small, but when unzipped, they came out to be very very huge files. In the gb zone. Examples.
80 mb Vista extracted into 2.7 gbs
62 kbs extracted into 1.2 gbs (I forgot what the file type was[/img])
If anyone knows how to do this, please reply, and inform me, much much thanks will be said. I currently have 7-zip and WinRar installed on my comp.[img]
Answer #1
Both of those programs you have should be able to compress files.
Here’s a video showing you how with WinRAR:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/video/2664/how_to_compress_and_uncompress_your.html
Answer #2
Both of those programs you have should be able to compress files.
I know they compress, but not soo much as to fit gbs into kbs.
Answer #3
Both of those programs you have should be able to compress files.
I know they compress, but not soo much as to fit gbs into kbs.
That’s one heck of a compression. That, I do not know. Sorry.
Answer #4
use KGB Archiver, maybe?
Answer #5
Yea KGB does it but it takes hell lot of CPU resources.
Answer #6
KGB is powerful enough to do that (it put a stripped down version of Vista on a floppy AFAIK), but it’s a CPU hog and takes hours to encrypt/decrypt
Answer #7
KGB also produces corrupt results if the compression is set too high
Answer #8
It’s all fake. Don’t believe people who tell you otherwise. All those miracle compressed releases are nothing but empty files that look like real but contain nothing so they cannot be run.
from KGB FAQ
Is it possible to compress files from hundreds of megabytes to few megabytes?
Usually not. It can be done, but only if the data being compressed isn't very differential. This means you can compress text with good a ratio (there are only 26 lower-case characters, 26 upper-case characters and 10 numbers plus a few standard symbols like '!@#$...',and usually no more than 64 different symbols in standard text, but every symbol is saved using 8 or 16 bits, which gives 256 or 65536 combinations per symbol), but you cannot compress graphics or music very well.
Answer #9
I agree its fake compression when you see those 80MB size Vista is nothing but empty 0’s. KGB can do some compression but not much. Winrar is the best at compressing and having files work 100% of the time. There is another way to compress files using the windows terminal and that would create a batch file you run to extract things. I seen games that are 1GB been compressed to 300MBs using that method dunno what its called but maybe thats one thing you are after.
Answer #10
I woudn’t recommend it. My friend said he compressed a game that was 600mb into 90mb, then he gave it to someone. That guy took 5 hours to uncompress it.
Answer #11
I woudn't recommend it. My friend said he compressed a game that was 600mb into 90mb, then he gave it to someone. That guy took 5 hours to uncompress it.
LOL 5 hours.
Also using that compression method, especially for a game will put some bugs in it with graphical and sound errors. Not all the time but sometimes.
Answer #12
I am eager to learn compression with UHARC. It is one of the powerful methods I guess.
Answer #13
I am eager to learn compression with UHARC. It is one of the powerful methods I guess.
Thats mostly for games. it supports all formats??? I think no
Answer #14
Well, even in games, UHARC compresses the various files, so I guess that could be implemented to other file types as well.
Answer #15
thank you guys for your information. I thought where was a way to do it. I mean I seen it, soo IDK now
Answer #16
If you have downloaded a Vista version that was a mear 63 megs and it extracted to 4gig, thats fine, but you try and install it…in ALL posts i have seen claiming that vista has been compressed into a 60meg file, everyone has said it doesn’t work. It may look as though it works but you get errors that say, “Cannot find file xxxxx’ and so on. You only option is accept apps, games and movies for the file size they are. If your worried about reaching your internet limit, see if you can upgrade your interenet plan so you have more bandwidth. If your worried about it taking too long to download, experiment with download accelorators, download mangers and even seeing if you can upgrade your speed of your internet with your isp…i know upgrading your internet cost money but its really the only atm…with technology growing sooo fast, we might have compression software to allow for this kind of compression in a few years; who knows.
Answer #17
Kgb Archiver will do it but it often creates broken files when you unzip them