Repairing a corrupt RAR file

Useing WinRAR

Step 1:

Open WinRAR and browse to the folder with your .rar/.zip file.

Step 2:

Highlight the file and click the Repair button from the tool bar.

Step 3:

In the pop-up window, select "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR/ZIP" depending on which type of archive you are trying to repair.

Step 4:You may get a "Suspicious Entry" pop-up. If so, select All. This may happen several times while repairing.

Step 5:

After WinRAR has completed repairing the archive, click on Close.

Step 6:

To extract your file, highlight your new rebuilt archive.

Step 7:Next select Commands>Extract without confirmation

Step 8:

The files will start extracting.

Step 9:

The archived files will be extracted to the same folder as the repaired archive.

I'll try this out. Thanks bud.

noted, thanks pal!

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That's awesome, but it has never worked for me. :(

Thanks For Sharing!!

I have tried this method and it dous work unfortunatly with video files you do end up with gobldegook and often the sound jumps out of sync

Tried it few times and it was hit and miss thing. some worked, others didnt...

thanks.. i'll give it a try.. i'll just wait for my rar files to be corrupted