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Is a DVD-RW disk different from a DVD-RAM disk?

Is there a way to burn something 10Gb onto a 4.1Gb disk?

  • Any way possible? I googled and found "use a data disk" however cannot find one anywhere, its just the standard 700mb cd's or 4.1Gb DVDRW. Please help

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    Compressing the file *may* reduce the size somewhat, but how far it will compress will depend on the file type. For example, most movie files are already compressed and can't be shrunk much further without quality loss. You could try splitting the file into multiple segments using something like WinRAR and burning the segments to multiple discs. http://www.rarlab.com/

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Depending on your operating system you can try compressing your content (using ZIP/RAR/GZIP) - it is unlikely that you will be able to reduce 10GB to 4GB, however you can use the archiving capability of the software to split your one compressed archive across multiple files - so you could split your 10GB file into 4gb, 4gb, and 2gb files. This would require you to have 3 disks to burn it onto though, and the files would not be usuable until joined back together. If you are in Windows you can use WinZip for this: http://www.winzip.com/wzdsplit.htm In Linux, you can use tar for this: Use the tar -L option

Compressing it. WinZip, and Winrar.

No. As far as I know, there is no compression tool that can compress more than 50%.

compressing doesn't matters cause you can compress something to a limit... but if you try rip software's they can help you through it. they are mostly used to rip games. you might be knowing that how they rip games of 4 DVDs to a single dvd!!! Hope i helped you best.. Good luck

If its data your using then you should get winGzip and something that can tarball things (or just use a machine that is running linux to compress them). If its music or videos you're storing you should use compression more specific to that type of file, and convert them to a compressed media format such as mp3 (for music) or m4a (for videos)

Use winrar and divide the archive into however large your disks are.

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