[RECOMMEND] Best WinRAR repair tool

[wanchan]

Once in a while one or two files within a RAR file I've created will show up corrupt and only those are not can be unrared. Sometimes it seems I can resolve the problem by reinstalling WinRAR itself. What's the best WinRAR repair tool you'd recommend? I see we've got a quite few for that purpose.

Thanks for enlightening me!

 

[BlueWeasel]

QuickPAR

 

[Sam25]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
QuickPAR

Didn't know about this program, I've bookmarked the page so I can read on it when I get back home from office.

 

[xtknight]

Erm hold on...reinstalling WinRAR fixes it sometimes?

If files inside your RAR are corrupt then I would either do a memory test on your computer or file a bug to WinRAR (well don't do that until you're sure your PC is fine). There's an underlying problem that needs to be fixed. If they get corrupt after sitting on some media, then that media is bad. If you do have unreliable media for some reason then you can consider parity (QuickPAR) or mirroring (RAID) methods.

For corrupt archives, WinRAR also has the option to extract a file without performing CRC checking on it ("keep broken files"). They will most likely be corrupt in some way however, but big files like videos may be partially salvageable.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Sam25

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
QuickPAR

Didn't know about this program, I've bookmarked the page so I can read on it when I get back home from office.

PARs will only help if someone with the original RARs can send you PARs for that RAR.