Repair Corrupted RAR File

How to repair a corrupted or broken RAR file

RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like ZIP, RAR files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed form.


WinRAR has a built-in rar repair feature. When WinRAR opens a compressed file which seems to be damaged, it will attempt to repair it. You may also use the rar repair feature from WinRAR menu, tools, repair corrupted file, or use "ALT" + R hot button to open the rar file repair feature.


WinRAR can only repair RAR and ZIP compressed file. The WinRAR repair is using the compressed file data and the extension, and it automatic detect compressed file type, but the user may also select the compressed file type manually. The source compressed file is not changed, the recovered compressed data will be preserved into the new compressed file. The new compressed file will be named as _recover.rar or _reconst.rar. If it has not restored the data, maybe the RAR compressed file is in very bad condition and not recoverable in this case.

You may also use third-party rar file repair software to recover the corrupted or damaged rar file.


Advanced RAR Repair from DataNumen Inc.

Advanced RAR Repair(ARAR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupt or damaged RAR archives. It uses advanced technologies to scan the corrupt or damaged RAR archives and recover your files in it as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Currently ARAR supports to recover all versions of RAR and SFX archives. Moreover, it is integrated with Windows Explorer, supports drag & drop operations and command line parameters, which will make you repair files easily and quickly.



Usage:

Click "Repair" tab in the dialog, you can start repairing corrupt RAR or SFX archives:

1. Input or select the corrupt RAR or SFX archive to be repaired. You may also click the search button to search and select the pst files to be repaired in the local computer.

2. In "Output recovered files in archive to:", specify a directory where recovered files in RAR archives are outputted.

3. Click "Start Repair" button to start the repair process. You will see the change in progress bar. If you want to abort the repair process, click the "Stop Repair" button.

4. After the repair process, Advanced RAR Repair will scan the corrupt RAR or SFX archive and for each file in the archive, Advanced RAR Repair will try to recover and save it into the directory specified in step 2.

5. You can click the "Upload File" button to open the file upload dialog. In the dialog, you can click "Start Upload" to upload the source corrupt RAR or SFX archive to our ftp server. You may also input additional information, such as your contact information, a brief description of your file corruption, or your problem in the "Comment for the files" before you upload the files. After your files are uploaded, our qualified engineers in file analysis center will try to analyze your file and provide the best data recovery solution to you.

6. You can click the "Save Log" button to save the repair log into a file. You can also include additional information in the log file by selecting the "Include System Information" option in the save file dialog. These information can help our technical supports to diagnose your system and solve your problems more efficiently.

Repair Corrupted Excel File

For the corrupted Excel file (.xls, or .xlsx), Excel 2003 or 2007 has built-in repair feature, and it can recover some corrupted or damaged Excel files. For the files cannot be repaired and open Excel, you may use some third-party tools to recover them:

ExcelRecovery from Recoveronix Ltd. (www.officerecovery.com)

• Supports all modern file versions, including Excel XP, Excel 2000, Excel 97, Excel 95 and Excel 5.0.
• Recovers cell data: text and numbers as well as formulas.
• Restores formatting.
• Restores structure of multi-sheet files.
• State of the art recovery engine, designed to fix worst injuries.
• Easy to use. No special user skills required.
• Available for all modern platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME.

Usage:

Using ExcelRecovery As A Standalone Application

1. Start ExcelRecovery.
2. Select the Recover... item in the File menu. A file selection dialog will open.
3. Select the file corrupted to recover.
4. Press the "Recover" button to start processing the file.
5. Wait until the file processing is completed.
6. When prompted, save the recovered file, assigning it a new name.

Disclaimer:

Actual results of recovery depend on how damaged a particular document is.

Other Excel File Repair or Recovery software:

Advanced Excel Repair (from DataNumen)

Advanced Excel Repair is a powerful tool to recover corrupted Excel XLS and XLW files. It uses advanced technologies to scan the corrupted Excel files and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Main features include: recovers cell data including texts, numbers, and formulas; restores structure of multi-sheet files; restores worksheet names; recovers Excel files on corrupted medias, such as floppy disks, Zip disks, CD-ROMs; repairs a batch of Excel spreadsheet files; supports integration with Windows Explorer, so you can fix a XLS file with the context menu of Windows Explorer easily; supports drag & drop operation; supports command line parameters.

Excel Workbook Rebuilder (from vbusers.com)

The Workbook Rebuilder has been highly recommended on several Microsoft newsgroups. The rebuilder fixes corrupt workbooks and overcomes many problems including unexplained errors and Excel locking up while saving and opening workbooks.

Repair Corrupted Outlook Mail PST File

For the damaged Outlook Mail Archive or Inbox file with extension .pst, you may use the tool provided by Microsoft Outlook named "ScanPST".

The ScanPST tool can be found from

Windows 2000 or XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Windows Vista: C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook


To recover folders and items from your corrupted .pst file, you may follow the steps below:

1. Run the inbox repair tool (scanpst).
2. Recover the repaired items.
3. Optionally, you can try to recover additional repaired items from the backup personal folder.


Details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287497

Outlook 2 GB file problem:

If you are using Outlook 2002 or if you are using a .pst file in Outlook 2003 that was created in an earlier version, the Inbox Repair Tool may not work if your .pst file has approached the 2-GB size limit. Therefore, check the file size before you continue. Depending on your Windows version, your .pst file might be located in one of the following folders.

Windows Vista: C::\users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

Windows XP or 2000: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

If the file has approached the 2-GB size limit, you can use the PST/OST cropping tool to make the file smaller. For more information about the PST/OST cropping tool, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Oversized PST and OST Crop tool.

Repair Corrupted AVI Video File

Digital Video Repair (DVR) is a freeware. It works with Windows platform only.

Digital Video Repair is a small software tool to repair corrupted avi video files. It supports the situations as:

• AVI file partially copied from CD, DVD or other source, or downloaded from Internet.
• AVI file freezes on playing.
• Damaged AVI file, or AVI video file cannot play.

DVR supports codec of AVI files:

* XviD
* DivX 4, 5
* 3ivx
* Microsoft MPEG4 (versions 1, 2, 3)
* DivX 3.11 and late (versions 1, 2, 3 Low è Fast)
* Angel Potion (versions 1 è 2)

Digital Video Repair is a software product of Rising Research.

License Agreement

1. All copyrights exclusively holded by Rising Research.

2. This software is provided "as is" without any warranties or conditions whatsoever. The authors does not accept any liability for loss of data, time, information or other damages of any kind while using this product.

3. You are not allowed to sell this software or to modify files of them, to reverse engineer or to disassamble binary code of product.

4. If you do not agree with the terms of this license you are not permitted to use this software, you must remove all files of this product from your storage devices.


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