Winrar - Corrupted Archive Files

If you still remember, I've mentioned something about a problem related to Mediafire filehosting. It is about corrupted file. Mediafire currently has this problem, archive files downloaded from this site tend to corrupt during the download process. But sometime if you're downloading from other filehosting, you still face this problem. If this thing happened, then you'll have some trouble to extract the file.

Normally, when this thing happened, not all 8 parts of the archive files are corrupt. Maybe 1 or 2 parts only. How do you identify the corrupted parts? When you're extracting the archive files, an error message will pop up if one or more file is corrupted. Refer this image.

If there are 2 parts corrupted, then you'll get three error messages. The error messages will tell you which part is corrupted, in this case part 1 and part 6 (refer the screenshot). The third message will appear after the extracting process is completed. If you're extracting and the error messages appear, no file will be extracted into your hard disk, and you can't watch the movie.

How to overcome this? If you've identified the corrupted parts, you can try to download it again. Sometimes the files is corrupted while the download process. So you need to re-download it and try to extract it again. Maybe this will help. But if re-download didn't solve the problem, then you have to do the other step to overcome corrupted file.

First, open the part 1 archive file and select 'extract to'. Before you select the destination folder, tick the 'keep broken file' box. Refer this image:

After that, select your folder and proceed with the extraction process. You'll get the movie file and you can try to watch it. There's no way to identify whether the movie file is working or not, unless by trying.

I can't guarantee this method will overcome the corrupted file problem, but most of the time it'll work. Its worth for a try since you've already download all parts of it.