re: Compressed (Zipped) Folder Corrupt Monday, February 8, 2010 at 11:07 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Gavin Stephenson (57 messages posted) Thanks very much. Kind of what I expected to be honest. Guess it's lost :-( On Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:48 pm, C K wrote: >The bad news is that a corrupt zipped archive/folder is almost if not impossible >to repair even if it can be recovered. There is just to much damage under compression. > >Second is that as soon as the issue is encountered, the machine needs to be shutdown >immediately so that further writing to the disk is stopped. You can then run recovery >software from the command prompt or DOS to see what can be recovered. > >At this point if the machine were on my bench, I would in 99.999% of cases be telling >the customer, that their data was gone. > >Lastly, compression should never be used without uncompressed backups. It should >never be your only source of data. Compressed files are more likely than uncompressed >data to become corrupted and unrecoverable IME. I see it all the time when trying >to recover peoples hard drives. > >The good news? If you manage to recover and get any of your data back, head to the >nearest lottery machine and play your favorite numbers. You just might be lucky >enough to win!! :-) > >As far as recovery software, I use professional software for best success. I don't >use the free ones as they can do more damage (as reported on this forum with some >of them) and you never want Windows running when trying to recover data in this scenerio. > There are some Linux based options that won't install anything on the HDD but they >do have a learning curve that most people just don't want to, or have the time to >deal with. > >Software from the site below let's you see if you can find what you want to recover >before buying, if it can find anything: > >http://www.atl-datarecovery.com/ Written in response to: re: Compressed (Zipped) Folder Corrupt (C K: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:48 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Compressed (Zipped) Folder Corrupt (Gavin Stephenson: Mon, Feb 8, 2010, 4:18 pm) re: Compressed (Zipped) Folder Corrupt (C K: Mon, Feb 8, 2010, 7:48 pm) re: Compressed (Zipped) Folder Corrupt (Gavin Stephenson: Mon, Feb 8, 2010, 11:07 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum