How do you open a corrupt rar file?

Answer 1

Several methods are available to open a corrupt Word file. Some of them are given below:

1. Open & Repair method: Free & Offered by Microsoft
2. Start your Word in 'safe mode': Free
3. Open you Word file in another format like RTF: Free
4. Try to open on different computer: Need second computer
5. Repair & Open by free Word repair program: Free
6. Repair & Open by paid Word repair program: Paid but nominal charge

Answer 2

A way to look at Microsoft Word document corruption is to categorize the corruption in two ways. First are those files that still open in Microsoft Word and secondly are those that won't and give you an error when you try to open the file. In order to deal with these corruption types you can:

1. Try Microsoft's own recommended steps for recovery. Microsoft has many suggestions. Look them up on the web. They are usually the first couple results for search queries about Word corrupt files.

• For files that both will open and won't, Microsoft recommends things like opening the file on another computer in another instance of Word; explicitly telling Word to try to open the file with the "Open and Repair" routine; opening Word without add-ins with the /a command; changing, renaming or deleting your startup template; and using a different printer driver.
• For files that will open, Microsoft recommends things like copying everything but the last paragraph mark to a new document; saving to another format like RTF, HTML or another word processor and the converting it back; and copying the undamaged portions of the document to a new document.
• For files that won't open, Microsoft recommends things like opening the damaged Word document in draft mode without updating the links; inserting the document as a file in a new document; and using the "Recover text from any file" converter in the Open Window.

These are some but not all the strategies the Microsoft recommends. A lot of them can be easily done by pressing buttons on an open source program by the author called S2 Recovery Tools for Word available on SourceForge.

2. Try freeware, open source software (not really much different since it also free), and commercial solutions that deal directly with your corrupt file, although they always work on a copy, not the file itself. There are many of these. There is even a commercial Web service or two which will give you immediate repair results although prices are usually expensive.

• Freeware includes RepairMyWord and the expert Microsoft utility OffVis.
• Open Source software the mentioned program, DocToText and few others.
• Commercial software include WordFix, Kernal Word Recovery and Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery just to name a few.

With commercial software you should try the trial software first to see if it works however even if you make a mistake and buy the software, there is usually a no questions asked money back guarantee offered by most companies.

3. Search for temporary, deleted, or lost earlier versions of your file. Microsoft gives detailed instructions on how to do this. You will be searching for files with extensions: .tmp, .asd and .wbk or the prefix "~" or "Backup of". There is again freeware, open source software and commercial software which can help here for instance:

• Freeware there are many programs, such as Recuva and for older versions of Windows, PC Inspector File Repair.
• For open source program my S2 Recovery Tools for Word has a search feature that specifically targets the right files but there are again many deleted and lost file recovery open source programs.
• The commercial ones are RecoverMyFiles, Easy Word Recovery and Word Regenerator to name a few. Other than Recuva, the commercial programs are the easiest to use. . . . But of course you pay for that.

Answer 3

You can try to recover your Microsoft Word or Excel file with recovery software of two kinds. Those that recover lost, deleted or temporary versions and those that actually work on corrupt files directly ina an attempt to open or salvage them.

For the second kind of software mainly those that work directly on corrupt files, there are some pieces of open source software (really freeware) out there which you can access by going to Sourceforge. Other pieces of freeware includ RecoverMyFile's RepairMyWord, Microsoft's OffVis and XLGeek's XLStylesTool, the latter two are more expert's tools. There are also a lot of commercial solutions as well to search for with say Google or Bing. Try the trial software first although most companies will give you a refund if you actually buy the software and find out later that it didn't work.

Even if spreadsheet or document is deleted, or if was stored on a drive that has been formatted, corrupted, or inaccessible by Windows, some of the software such as Word and Excel Regenerator family of software, RecoverMyFiles itself, S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft Word and Excel family of software and Easy Recovery family of software can still help.

Answer 4

You may recover corrupted word file thanks to programmed way. I should advise to try utility below.

Tool repairs word documents of any formats of MS Word, including huge word files.

Answer 5

In this case to my mind one of the best determinations. But last time I could solve out my trouble with rar files with the aid of one tool. It might help in this problem as well.

Answer 6

Open your MS Word document with Notepad and just delete a few lines of text but not the first few lines or the last few lines. Now your word document has been corrupted.