The older w98 systems can't work with NTFS, and one still has the wasted space 
in the MFT. FAT32 is much more efficient for large files in this case. It seems 
I have to uncompress everything from a 7z spanned archive. It isn't so much 
compression level, which was medium, but 50GB is 50GB, and over USB... In 
retrospect, 4GB is probably too big for any method.


Nicola Perotto wrote:
> If you use NTFS there isn't problem with 4 GB or more but if you need to 
> burn a dvd you may encounter some problem with file bigger than 2 GB 
> because you can do it only with the UDF file system and it is not so 
> well supported.
> If 7-zip appears slow you can try to loose some compression and it will 
> be much faster.
>     Nic
> 
> Dr Skip wrote:
> 
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