help with winrar

**finnmccool** · 2nd February 2004

Hi all,been using winrar 3.20 now for about a year with no problems,until now that is,was previously using the windows me operatinging system but since i've upgraded to xp professional i can,t get anything to unrar,for example if i downloaded 20 rar files from a newsgroup and followed the method i was using previously i should end up with either a bin/cue,iso or mpeg but now all i get is 1 single rar file(1.5gb),are my settings wrong in winrar or is it windows xp thats causing the problem,any help would be appreciated......thanks in advance fm

**MaxP** · 2nd February 2004

i should end up with either a bin/cue,iso or mpeg but now all i get is 1 single rar file(1.5gb)

what you need to do is click on the first rar in the series (.rar or .r01) and then right click and extract to.

what i think you are doing is selecting all the rar files and right click "add to rar"
which is just creating a large rar from all the smaller ones.

**finnmccool** · 2nd February 2004

Hi thanks for your reply,ive downloaded 2 different groups of rar files today,the strange thing is 1 set of rar files (14x7.2mb)worked properly and the other set (14x47.6mb)didnt,the working set gave me bin/cue which is what usually happened but the second set gave me 1 single rar file (669mb)when i was after an iso,i tinkered about with some settings in winrar thinking it was that but stiill no joy,any further advice would be greatly appreciated as this is really starting to pi$$ me off..............thanks in advance

**fe_man2000** · 2nd February 2004

You not getting an single ISO file from your RAR's are you ? but .iso files happen to be associated with winrar so it gives it the winrar icon instead ?

cheers
Ironman