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I have many important documents on my computer as every usual user

  • 04-07-2018 08:39AM
    #1
    makaylamalda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    But I made a mistake. I packed my files to one .rar archive. It's size was about more than 50 GB. And I removed source files. Yesterday I wanted to add something more to archive, but when opening it...WinRAR viewed me: "The header of the General.rar file is corrupt". I tried for recovery rar via built-in tool in WinRAR, but it couldn't handle such huge file size.


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  • #2
    Xterminator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭Xterminator


    Hi Op

    the source files. when were they deleted? from your post i surmise they were on your computer hard drive, not a network drive etc. I would recommend you try to recover them. if they were recently deleted you should get back a good bit of data.

    https://windowsreport.com/recover-damaged-hard-drive-software/

    hyrens boot cd is the 5th option there, and completely free. however if these files are valuable, then you should consider buying recuva.

    if you want to tackle the rar file, you can look at http://www.winrarrepair.net/extract-large-files.html - try the free demo and see if it looks like it might work.

    I don't know why you thought zipping all your files in a RAR file saved in only one location was a good idea. It wasn't. you can get an external hard drive for peanuts, and backup to that, but regardless how you do it, always keep a second copy somewhere just in case.


  • #3
    Attifowler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭Attifowler


    makaylamalda wrote: »
    But I made a mistake. I packed my files to one .rar archive. It's size was about more than 50 GB. And I removed source files. Yesterday I wanted to add something more to archive, but when opening it...WinRAR viewed me: "The header of the General.rar file is corrupt". I tried for recovery rar via built-in tool in WinRAR, but it couldn't handle such huge file size.

    Try this guide below or take a look at helpful resources concerning such troubles with archives...

    http://www.win-rar.com/faq.html?&L=0
    https://download.cnet.com/Recuva/3000-2242_4-10753287.html
    https://rar.recoverytoolbox.com/

    Open the file in WinRAR (download from internet if you don't have one).
    Press your right mouse-button.
    Click on "Repair archive", or press Alt+R.
    Click on Browse button and select a folder where you want to keep the repaired archive.
    There will be two options ("Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" and "Treat the corrupt archive as ZIP").
    Select any one of your choice (or see which one will work) and click on OK button.
    Go to the folder where you have kept the repaired archive and open it (Repaired archive will be named as rebuilt.*.rar or rebuilt.*.zip, where * is the name of original archive).


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