Repair Corrupt ZIP / RAR Archive

The most used file compression software available on the planet are WinZIP and WinRAR. Due to their excellent compression capabilities, they are widely used for making compressed backup of important files and compressing data to store in a small amount of storage devices. But due to various reasons these compressed files gets corrupted and fails to decompress.

Some of the common errors being displayed while doing uncompression is as follows :

• "Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive"
• "This is not a valid win32 application' or 'Corrupt Zip file"
• "CRC Errors"

On can easily repair the corrupt ZIP or RAR file using the inbuilt repair option within the compression software itself, if the compressed file is not heavily damaged.

To repair a corrupt RAR / ZIP file using WinRAR, use following method.

• Open WinRAR and browse to the folder with your .rar/.zip file.
• Highlight the file and click the Repair button from the tool bar.

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

• You may get a "Suspicious Entry" pop-up. If so, select All. This may happen several times while repairing.
• After WinRAR has completed repairing the archive, click on Close.
• To extract your file, highlight your new rebuilt archive.
• Next select Commands > Extract without confirmation
• The files will start extracting.
• The archived files will be extracted to the specified folder as the repaired archive.

If the above method fails to repair your corrupt or damaged zip or rar archive then try using commercial ZIP Repair software tools or utilize our ZIP Recovery services.

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