I need to back up this game I have (Tales of Destiny 2 for the PS2), and I've extracted its ISO (my brother kept on licking the CD... Is that bad?). Problem is, after doing that and putting the 3GB ISO in my Hard drive, it left me with only 10 GB available hard disk space (this PC's ancient, I know). And then I remembered this one time where my friend gave me a RAR file she downloaded which contained a 4GB ISO, and miraculously, that RAR file was only 49MB or something! I've tried using WinRAR and other compressors, but it still won't compress into something that small.
So, does anyone know of a way I can archive this ISO into a RAR file that's very small? It'd be fine by me if it could compress it to as big as a plain CD's capacity (700MB), that way, I can just burn it and keep it safe somewhere...
Thanks in advance ^_^. I hope someone can help T_T.
It all depends on the files inside the iso, some games are able to be compressed to small sizes and some can only be compressed to slightly smaller sizes than the iso. If you know how to use winrar correctly and you spit the iso up to into, lets say 100 .rar files the file size of all the .rar files in the folder will be much smaller than just a single .rar file. This is the main reason why alot of videogame iso's that people download are split up into alot of .rar files, that way they can be uploaded faster and and downloaded quicker.
You could also try 7zip for compressing you're files, they say it has a better compression ratio than winrar, but I never really liked the utility very much.
