How To Split A Large File Into Small Files In Windows 7 Using 7zip

Many a times we need to Split large files into smaller files. This is especially useful when uploading to websites that have a limit on the file size.

If you just need to split the files send across to someone who can join them back then 7zip is a great utility.

If you are using Windows 7 Then you can follow these steps to install 7zip.

Its a simple procedure to split a file using 7zip. All we need to do is

• Right click on the file
• Choose 7zip->Add to Archive
• Here there is a field called as - split to volumes. Give the maximum size of the files to split into.
• for e.g if you have a 70 MB file and you give 20 there, it'll split the file into 4 files of  20,20,20,10 MB size.
• Now you can send these files separately by whatever means you like.
• The receiver of these files can simply select the files and say extract here and the file will be merged back.

Here is a video showing the same -