HarlequinBAM Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 I was hoping to ressurect a specific .rar file that I deleted yesterday from the recycle bin and I believe I found it after using the Deep Scan option, although the file name is garbled into something else. Anyhow, Recuva lists it as in "excellent" condition and so I selected to recover it and saved it to a different drive. Some other files work fine, but this one displays an error message when I attempt to open it. It tells me "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged". I don't see how it could be in an unknown format since it says .rar so I assume it must be damaged for some reason? Is there anything that can be done to repair it? I just don't understand since it was listed as in "excellent" condition to be recovered. Could someone please help me or explain what went wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelgirl Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 I was hoping to ressurect a specific .rar file that I deleted yesterday from the recycle bin and I believe I found it after using the Deep Scan option, although the file name is garbled into something else. Anyhow, Recuva lists it as in "excellent" condition and so I selected to recover it and saved it to a different drive. Some other files work fine, but this one displays an error message when I attempt to open it. It tells me "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged". I don't see how it could be in an unknown format since it says .rar so I assume it must be damaged for some reason? Is there anything that can be done to repair it? I just don't understand since it was listed as in "excellent" condition to be recovered. Could someone please help me or explain what went wrong? i'm having the same problem with excellent jpgs: recuva can't handle them. the files were photographed last night, with no chances for overwrite by any program. and yet, those files recuva says are "unrecoverable" or "poor" were 99% recovered perfectly. go figure... [ a few minutes later ] tried another recovery program (testdisk and photorec) and was able to recover ALL of the files from the partition, including those recuva had marked as "excellent" but was unable to recover... the program uses an extremely primitive dos interface, and it's not for the faint of heart, but it worked first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ePost Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Do you guys have Vista or XP? Found this page by the way - 17 Free File Recovery Programs: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery...ry-programs.htm And this: this: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Format...red_By_PhotoRec Also: Give Away of the Day has this today. Windows 7 fully supported. GRT Deleted Files Recovery for NTFS: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ Free online Windows Live OneCare safety scanner here for XP - here for Vista/Windows 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted October 12, 2009 Moderators Share Posted October 12, 2009 Perhaps a read of Dennis's experience when using Recuva may help http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=23991 Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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