Repair Recovered RAR Files

If you want to send large files over the internet, you need to compress the data for easier and faster transfer. ZIP and RAR are the two compression techniques used widely. RAR has more advantages of usability than ZIP. Hence, RAR is the preferred compression mechanism used nowadays. It has lots of usage benefits like; it can compress the files up to 30 percent more than what ZIP can do. There are different versions of RAR for different platforms. You can choose the one suiting your requirement. For example, if you are using Windows OS then you need WinRAR software. The files compressed using WinRAR is lossless. That means the original data will not be affected by the compression technique. The main attraction of using RAR compression mechanism is that it takes less space compared to any other archive software. The RAR files can be named in characters other than English and hence used wide across the globe. There are number of other advantages of using RAR over any other compression mechanism. You can add your files to RAR archive and have the benefits of using it. You can save the storage space and speed up the mailing process of files.

 

How helpful it may be to RAR your files, it will be of no use if it gets corrupted. There are chances when you will be left with the corrupted RAR files. Sometimes it happens that the recovered files may be in corrupt form. Suppose, you have deleted or lost the RAR file and you recover it using any recovery mechanism. The file may get corrupted because some part of the file is overwritten. The RAR file refuses to open. In such situation you need to fix RAR using repair RAR software.

There are several other reasons for RAR getting corrupt. Some are given below:

• The RAR file may get infected by virus, the RAR header may get corrupted.
• The RAR may have CRC error. The CRC when the RAR file was created might not match with the CRC of the RAR while extracting the files using the RAR tool.
• The RAR may get corrupted if you do not download the files properly. You may download the RAR file when the server is slow, resulting in corrupt RAR file.

If you do not have the copy of the RAR file or do not have the original uncompressed files then you need to repair corrupt RAR using repair software. You can get back all your music and photo files compressed to RAR using the repair software.

Advantageous features of repair RAR software:

The repair RAR software repairs files on Windows computers effectively. The software can repair broken RAR file easily with its powerful repair algorithms. The software supports repairing all versions of RAR files. You can even repair password protected RAR files. The software has completely automated repair mechanism. The software has user friendly wizard that any novice can repair the RAR file successfully. You can repair RAR files of size 4 GB or more than that using the software. The software works in worst case scenarios that you can even fix RAR CRC error.

As RAR files are very sensitive file types, you should take some precautions to keep the RAR files from any damage. You can keep in mind the following points to avoid RAR file corruption and data loss:

• Use updated anti-virus program on the computer.
• Keep backing up of the RAR files.
• Check whether the files are infected by virus before compressing them to RAR Archive.
• Use proper compression tool.

 

Steps to repair recovered RAR files using repair RAR software:

 

Step 1: Download and install repair RAR software on Windows computer. Launch the software and you get the main page of the software as below.

Figure 1 : Main Window

Step 2: Browse the corrupt RAR file and click on "Repair" button to initiate the repair process.

Figure 2 : Select RAR file to repair

 

Step 3: After repairing the RAR file, the files in it are extracted and displayed.

 

Figure 3 : Preview Repaired RAR File

Step 4: Preview the files and save them in a specific location by browsing.

 

Figure 4 : Save RAR File