20 Tools To Repair Common Files On Your Computer

Your files may be sometimes corrupted or damaged by any reason. It might be the attack of malware, the system crash, the program’s error or the file was split and transferred via Internet etc. 20 tools listed here may help you minimize the data loss and recover the maximum possible amount of information. They are separated into 4 groups: archive, multimedia, office and mail.

Archive files

01. Advanced RAR Repair is a powerful application for repairing corrupt or damaged RAR and SFX archives. It uses advanced technologies to scan the corrupt or damaged archives and recover your files in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption.

02. Zip Repair Tool is a smart, reliable and powerful recovery engine for a fast and accurate zip repair. Corrupt Zip Repair Tool is used to restore music, images, documents, emails etc from corrupt ZIP files. Fully automated zip repair process and a user-friendly interface makes Zip repair process easy.

03. RAR Recovery Toolbox tool recovers data from damaged RAR archives. It scans the archive, defines the data structure and tries to recover as much information as it can from the damaged file. Using several different recovery algorithms, it may minimizes data loss and tries to recover the maximum possible amount of information.

Mail

04.OutlookFIX is an Outlook tool that will help you undelete, repair and recover Outlook, restoring the damaged PST files that contains all your data.

05. Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a powerful and easy to use software application that can help you restore data from damaged MS Outlook files. Microsoft Outlook stores email messages, contacts, notes and folders on the local drive as a .pst file.

Multimedia

06. The Ashampoo AudioCenter is the control center for extracting, burning, converting, editing and repairing of audio files! This tool is smart and easy to use. It automatically takes care of all the complicated settings of audio encoding and decoding and allows the user to focus on what he/she actually wants to do.

07. All Media Fixer is a handy tool that will help you to repair media files which can not be played or dragged. It can avi, mpeg, wmv, dvd, rm, ipod, mp4, jpg, mp3, ipod, 3GP etc.

08. PSD Repair Tool serves as an effective solution for restoring damaged Photoshop files. It is capable of recovering all sorts of PSD and PDD files along with their layers. It recognizes files from any version of Photoshop, supports files of various color modes, color depth and with RLE compression. It also features the Custom Parameters mode that can help you restore even badly damaged files with corrupt headers.

09. RecoverPlus will help you recover your images or files accurate and fast with just three clicks and without studying a manual. It supports all possible image files and comes with over 40 predefined file types, data and Raw included.

10. DivFix++ was designed to easily repair broken AVI file streams by rebuilding index part of file. This is very useful when trying to preview movies which has no index part, like some files are currently downloading from ed2k or bittorent networks.

11. CRW Repair is a data recovery tool designed for Canon RAW (.CRW) photos. It is designed to recover damaged or corrupt CRW files (.crw files) that will not open normally. The recovered file can then be saved as an error free CRW file.

Office files

12. eRepair Excel is a great application which allows users to restore Excel worksheets. It successfully reads and repairs data from all worksheets of corrupt MS Excel file, which gets damaged due to: power loss, software crash, accidental system shutdown, virus attack, media corruption or when the excel file shows errors like "file is not in a recognizable format", when you try to open the corrupted excel file.

13. Kernel For Impress is light-weight and small application to repair corrupt and damaged files of OpenOffice Impress. ODP files which are useful medium to create presentations for meetings, conferences and other important ventures become inaccessible due to heavy file size, virus attacks, and media corruptions.

14. Sanmaxi Excel File Repair is a great tool which help users to recover their damaged Microsoft Excel files quick and easily repairs damage Excel files. It supports almost all existing versions of .xls formats like Microsoft Excel 97, Microsoft Excel 2000, Microsoft Excel XP, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft Excel 2003.

15. Sanmaxi Powerpoint File Repair is an application created to help you reover corrupt or damaged MS PowerPoint files its complete solution for the corrupt PowerPoint file (.ppt). It supports MS PowerPoint 2003, MS PowerPoint XP, MS PowerPoint 2000, MS PowerPoint 97 presentation versions of Microsoft PowerPoint.

16. Advanced PDF Repair is a useful and powerful PDF recovery tool. It uses advanced technologies to scan the corrupt or damaged Acrobat PDF files and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption.

17.Kernel For Draw is an application which will help you repair damaged Openoffice Draw files. It will scans, repairs and recovers data from inaccessible files created with any version of OpenOffice Draw.

18. OfficeRecovery is a useful and powerful software which combines data recovery programs into convenient setup packages. With it, you can restore Microsoft Word documents (.doc), fix damaged Microsoft Excel worksheets (.xls), repair borken Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (.ppt) and even rescue data from damaged Microsoft OneNote files (.onr). All the tools are easy to use, no special skills required.

19. Quick Recovery for Microsoft Access is a powerful and easy to use piece of software that provides you with the possibility to repair damaged or corrupt *.mdb files quickly and easily. It successfully restores, reads, retrieves & repairs corrupt access files. There are just two steps to perform the complete recovery operation: Analysis, Select & Save.

20. PDS Access File Repair software uses more powerful method for scanning and restoring mdb database file. Using this tool, you can restore corrupt / damage / inaccessible MS Access database files, recovers table data and the rest of access elements like tables, primary keys. foreign keys etc.