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[urgent] huge corrupt zip file by Voldemort on 11-22-2007 at 05:18 PM
er, well...
i have this 10 gig backup in a zip file in my external hdd, and it won't let me open it and claims it is corrupt.... i've googled to see how can i recover information on it, but i couldn't find something decent... any ideas?
thanks!
RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file by Quantum on 11-22-2007 at 05:21 PM
http://www.ziprepair.com/
http://www.repair-zip-files.com/
http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Corrupted-Zip-...epair-Software.php
http://www.brothersoft.com/file_disk_management/d...p_files_44879.html
Hope this helps 
RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file by Voldemort on 11-22-2007 at 05:25 PM
i can google too 
did you even read the links?
RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file by Ezra on 11-22-2007 at 05:27 PM
Winrar has a good zip repairing ability, try the trial out to see if it will repair the Zip.
RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file by Adeptus on 11-22-2007 at 06:15 PM
quote:Your problem may not be as much that the file is corrupt, as with its size. There are two versions of ZIP format -- the classic uses 32-bit sizes and offsets in its directory structure, so you really can't have a file larger than 4GB. A version of the format using 64-bit integers (and effectively having no limits) has been around for a while, but may still not be supported by all software.
Originally posted by Voldemort
i have this 10 gig backup in a zip file in my external hdd, and it won't let me open it and claims it is corrupt...
The first thing I'd do in your situation is try a couple different unzip tools, starting with the same one used to create the archive... If you are trying repair utilities, make sure you do it on a copy of the archive, because a repair utility that only understands 32-bit ZIP format would probably only do additional damage.