Posted by Andrew Rossmann on 01/12/06 22:02

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In article <Xqzxf.6635$ZA2.4908@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
ccREMOVEiaffone@earthlinDELETEk.net says...
> When using DVDShrink to rip a DVD to the hard drive for
> further processing, I need to rip into one VOB file
> (to omit extraneous markers). But to do that I have to
> compress about 95% to get enough under 4G, or the file
> can't be stored. What imposes this 4Gb limit? Is it
> the hard drive, the OS (98SE) or BIOS??

It's the drive format. All FAT formats (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32) have an
INDIVIDUAL file size limit of 4G. This is due to FAT using a 32-bit
value to hold the file size in the directory. Since you are running
Win98, you are stuck with FAT formats.

The only way to go over 4G is to upgrade to NT/2K/XP and convert to
NTFS.

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