How to rescue a damaged RAR archive file?

[pg]

Years ago, when win98 and floppy disks were the "IN" thing, I saved my
collection of fun softwares on floppy disks.

First I archived them using RAR, and then split the big file into
1.4MB sized smaller files.

Just yesterday I found the stack of floppies, all together 23 of them.

Of the 23 disks, 21 of them can be successfully read. The other two
disks, dead. Couldn't be read.

That means I am left with 21 parts of a 23-part rar archive.

Is it possible to extract as much of those precious little programs as
possible, from the remaining 21 parts of the archive?

How to do that, may I know?

Please help.

Thank you all !!!!

 

[sittingduck]

That means I am left with 21 parts of a 23-part rar archive.

Is it possible to extract as much of those precious little programs as
possible, from the remaining 21 parts of the archive?

How to do that, may I know?

Extract with winrar, and check the option to "Keep broken files".

 

[chuckcar]

Years ago, when win98 and floppy disks were the "IN" thing, I saved my
collection of fun softwares on floppy disks.

First I archived them using RAR, and then split the big file into
1.4MB sized smaller files.

Just yesterday I found the stack of floppies, all together 23 of them.

Of the 23 disks, 21 of them can be successfully read. The other two
disks, dead. Couldn't be read.

That means I am left with 21 parts of a 23-part rar archive.

Is it possible to extract as much of those precious little programs as
possible, from the remaining 21 parts of the archive?

How to do that, may I know?

Please help.

You could do it manually. This is all assuming that the two unreadable
disks are the *last* two of course, not the first or somewhere in the
middle. First you copy the 1.4 meg parts into 21 different files in one
directory. Next you concatenate them together - copy/b will work - into
one file. Next open that file with winrar. Skip past the error messages
and *if* you're still in the file, then do a tools->repair. This won't
work on a multiple volume archive, hence the reason for the concatenation.
You *must* concatenate them in order obviously.

 

[pg]

You could do it manually. This is all assuming that the two unreadable
disks are the *last* two of course, not the first or somewhere in the
middle. First you copy the 1.4 meg parts into 21 different files in one
directory. Next you concatenate them together - copy/b will work - into
one file. Next open that file with winrar. Skip past the error messages
and *if* you're still in the file, then do a tools->repair. This won't
work on a multiple volume archive, hence the reason for the concatenation.
You *must* concatenate them in order obviously.

The two damaged disks are the 12th disk and the 19th disk.

Even testing the archive failed --- winrar keep asking for the 12th
and the 19th parts.

Shooooooot !!

Looks like I'm fried !!!!

 

[chuckcar]

The two damaged disks are the 12th disk and the 19th disk.

Even testing the archive failed --- winrar keep asking for the 12th
and the 19th parts.

Then only do up to the 11th part *as* one file. It *has* to all be copied to one file or it won't work at all period.

Dos is your friend:

copy/?

Alternatively, you add to the extensions. The first file
being XXX.rar.001 second XXX.rar.002 and then use hjsplit
to join them for you. But you *have* to stop at the 11th part.

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit