Windows 10: Is Microsoft's official answer to repairing corrupted files manually REALLY to buy another...

I ran the sfc scannow command line thing, and it found corrupt files, but said it could not repair them for some reason. I looked at this official microsoft support article:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/929833/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system

and it said that I would have to manually replace each file with a known good version of that file. Leaving aside the issue of why sfc is able to find the specific location of corrupted files but not repair them, the article's section on obtaining known good files, again, on an official Microsoft support page, was this exact quote:

"You may be able to get a known good copy of the system file from another computer that is running the same version of Windows with your computer. You may perform a System File Checker process on that computer to make sure the system file that you intend to copy is a good copy."

Am I really to believe that Microsoft's official troubleshooting guide for fixing corrupt files is to buy a second computer with a second two hundred dollar copy of the operating system and poach individual files from that computer to copy over to your first one? Why is Microsoft incapable of providing these files themselves? Why is the sfc tool capable of locating corrupted files and yet incapable of replacing them? It knows where they are, doesn't it?


Anyway, I am hoping someone can tell me a slightly more elegant solution to this problem than "buy a new computer".

:)

 

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.

 

Microsoft Windows Home Server Corrupts Files

Microsoft has warned Windows Home Server users not to edit files stored on their backup systems with several of its programs, including Vista Photo Gallery and Office's OneNote and Outlook, as well as files generated by popular finance software such as Quicken and QuickBooks. "When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server," Microsoft said in a support document posted last week. The document went on to list the software, which includes Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, OneNote 2003, OneNote 2007, Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007 and SyncToy 2.0 Beta. Others programs, however, may also corrupt files stored on a home server powered by Microsoft's operating system. "Additionally, there have been customer reports of issues with Torrent applications, with Intuit Quicken and with QuickBooks program files," the document said. "Until an update for Windows Home Server is available, we recommend that [you] do not use the programs that are listed to save or to edit program-specific files that are stored on a Windows Home Server-based system."

Source: Computerworld

 

Corrupted file RAR

Never had a successful repair on a corrupted rar file especially if it was torrent or p2p