how to continue downloading .part file

Question

How to continue downloading .part file. I am downloading a trial of windows home server but when I turned the computer on. It said that the download could not continue. How can I continue it?

Answer 1

Most download accelerators create a PARTial file while they are working with the download.

• It is important that the context of the download be retained to successfully continue later.
  ^{So, just having the '.part' file handy will not be sufficient.}
  As an example, I usually divert all my downloads from firefox to an accelerator which also creates partial files in progress. I can pause any download, completely shutdown the browser and my machine to continue from there in another session.
• Another catch here is, the server hosting such a file should be able to support a 'continue' option.
  Some servers will not allow a continue and the entire file will need to be downloaded again.
  ^{However, i do not expect the windows download servers to have this limitation}
  The firefox example I gave earlier does not work on some servers...