Is there a free (Windows) program to open a zip file? WinZip is pointing out to me that it is not free software.
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Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:26:32 pm PDT #5192 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 4:33:11 pm PDT #5193 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What amount of Zipping does Windows do for free?
Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:37:41 pm PDT #5194 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, I cleverly googled and found FreeZip, which seems to have worked. The other thing I had was on a 45 day trial, and worked some beyond that, but not as far as I was!
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 4:44:55 pm PDT #5195 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So by default there's nothing free to compress in Windows, right? We need to get everyone to broadband with big thumb drives so we never zip again.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:48:21 pm PDT #5196 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So by default there's nothing free to compress in Windows, right?
As far as I know, yeah.
le nubian - Mar 17, 2008 5:43:55 pm PDT #5197 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
7zip is awesome.
ita, what kind of checking do you need to do?
recommendation: go to lifehacker.com and search around their archives. I'm sure you'll find what you need.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 6:02:06 pm PDT #5198 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need to find out how dead my disk is. It went from failing some on chkdsk to undetectable on startup.
le nubian - Mar 17, 2008 6:08:36 pm PDT #5199 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 6:16:51 pm PDT #5200 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, LeN. If I can get it to mount, that sounds like the ticket.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2008 6:21:54 pm PDT #5201 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ita - I don't have much else to offer... but is the drive still spinning? Have you tried replacing power and/or data cables? Reseated connections?
Kinda stabs in the dark, but easy to try.... (If the drive isn't spinning, there are tricks to getting it going one last time.)