Windows 10: FILE CORRUPTION

This is as much a part of life as Political Corruption or Corruption in Big Business and at some time we all encounter examples of these.

But the ABSOLUTE WORST is FILE CORRUPTION.

I freakin' HATE that---more even than I hate spiders (which is a lot!)

But, fortunately, it is something Microsoft has provided a fix for that actually WORKS.

And that is SFC aka System File Checker. ZigZag3143 has a great article on this here: SYSTEM FILE CHECK (SFC) and I highly recommend it to all users.


Here is why: TODAY I thought I would run this program because my computer had been acting a bit strangely lately. Files weren't responding quite as they SHOULD. Nothing I could put my finger on, you understand, but...things just weren't RIGHT.

So I ran System File Checker and, sure enough...FILE CORRUPTION.


But SFC /SCANNOW fixed the files. Then I ran THE DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) tool and, finally, ran SFC /SCANNOW a second time just to make sure all my problems were resolved...looks like this when you're done:



And life was GOOD again!



I recommend this to all users of Windows 10. These tools are awesome!

:)

 

Corrupted file RAR

If the archive has been created using WinRAR, why don't you try WinRAR itself? It has a built-in repair feature for repairing corrupted archive (ZIP as well as RAR). Follow the steps given below:

• Open WinRAR application in your system.
• Now click on File tab > Open or simply press Ctrl+O.
• A small window "Find Archive" will pop up. Locate the corrupt RAR archive from your system directory and select it.
• Now click Open button.
• Click Tools tab > Repair archive or simply press Alt+R.
• Again a small window "Repairing File name.rar" will pop up.
• Now click Browse to select a location to save the repaired archive.
• Check the box "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" and click OK.
• WinRAR will start repairing of corrupt RAR archive. Once it gets completed click Close.

I hope the above steps will help you repair the corrupted RAR archive.

Thanks.

 

Corrupt file - Can't fix. [Fixed]

Hi Vincent,

Thank you for posting your concern here in Microsoft Community.



Before proceeding, please check if the same issue occur when logged in through a different user account.

Ref: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-set-up-accounts

Please perform the below steps and see if it helps to resolve the issue.

This issue may happen due to system file corruption. I suggest you to run System file checker. System File checker (SFC) scan is done to check if there are any corrupted system files that could be causing this issue. Kindly follow
the below given steps:

• Press Windows key + X, select
  Command prompt (Admin) to bring up elevated Command prompt.
• In Command prompt type sfc/scannow and press enter.
• Restart the computer.

If no corrupted system files were found in the previous state, then I suggest you to try the following steps:

• Open command prompt by pressing Windows key + X and selecting “Command prompt admin”.
• In command prompt, type the following commands and press Enter after each command:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

• Close the command prompt and restart the PC and check if it works.

Hope this information helps. Please post us if you need any further assistance with Windows.

Thank you.

 

Programs not working


In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.