You could try a dos based file splitter.

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From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>, on 02/09/2003 2:01 PM:

Folks, I've got a curly one.  A 3-month old Acer 234XC laptop has XPHome.

The OS is damaged and needs to be recovered, but only a full recovery is
possible, not a repair, which means all files will be lost.

The customer would like to have some important jpg's retrieved.

Using the Acer boot disk, I can enter the system in DOS and see the files I
want to retrieve.  (The system must be FAT32, otherwise I don't see how this
would be possible)

The CDRW drive works insofar as I can read the contents of CD's .  There is a
floppy drive also.  There is a network port, 2 USB ports and a printer port.

Here's the curly bit:  All the 20 or so jpg's I want to retrieve are over
1.4Mb so I can't copy them to floppy.  All of them are over 2mb's.

I considered pulling out the HDD and slaving it to another system, but I'm
durned if I can see how to remove it, short of gutting the machine
completely, so that's out.

If anyone can think of another way I can do this retrieval job, I'd much
appreciate it.

TX

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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