In case of damage of the file is not necessary at once to remove them, especially if they are valuable and they are not backups. You first need to reboot your PC and re-open the file. It is desirable to defragment the drive. If it does not open, check whether the specified extension object. There are cases when this is a problem (especially for beginners). If the above methods do not help, you can try to restore the damaged files using the software.

Restore graphic files



One of the most popular programs to recover damaged graphic files is the RS File Repair. With the built-in program wizard to cope with it can even a beginner. The application is designed to recover files in formats JPEG (JPG, JPE, JFIF), TIFF, TIF, PNG. Work RS File Repair is available on all file systems and versions of Windows.


Recovery MsOffice files



In case if you cannot recover documents standard tools MsOffice, help may come small in size with Easy Office Recovery. She quite successfully recovers corrupted and deleted documents MsOffice: from MsOffice 95 to the latest versions. There is support for XLS, XLSX, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, PST. The built-in application wizard allows fairly easy to navigate it and complete the task.

Repair archives



As is known, to transfer a large number of files on the Internet and reduce the amount of information saved use the archives. It increases the popularity of their application, but the archives are very vulnerable to damage. To restore them you can use the program WinRar. If you run such a file it appears a window which says that "the Archive is damaged or has an unknown format".

To correct the files you must open the program WinRar, to find it and to select. Then click the Fix button in the top menu. In the window that appears, select the save directory and file type, and then click OK. It remains to wait for the process to complete.

In conclusion it must be emphasized that the best way to keep your important files is backing up and saving on external media or network.