Windows 10: Windows 10 Update Restarted and Corrupted Word Doc files

Last night Windows 10 re-started my laptop (without my permission … as I have Windows Update set to Notify for Restart) and all my Word Document files (which were open last night) now won’t open saying they are corrupt.



I have resisted for many years, but it looks like it is well beyond time to now buy an Apple computer and move over to them.



Windows 10 shutting down my computer after Updates has gone too far this time.



I tried to change “Active Hours” yesterday, and it is locked and unable to change from 8:00 am to 5:00 am



I have already set Windows Update to Notify for Restart… but apparently Windows Update simply ignores this.



But now my current problem is that all the Word Document files that I had open last night… I can’t open them and see the message “Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt.”

:)

 

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 Word File 2013

Hi Andre,

Your last suggestion of turning the corrupt file into an RTF worked. I sent the file to my client. She saved it as a word doc and sent it back to me. Thank you so Much!!!

 

Oppening Word doc from e-mail

Hi SasaD,

Sounds frustrating ... I open, use, and create Word docs all the time on my Windows Phone and would be lost without this capability.

Sounds like the Word doc might have been corrupted. I would suggest a test by creating a simple Word document on a computer and then email it to your phone. If that works, then ask the sender of the previous Word doc to try resending it. If it fails again,
it would definitely be a corrupted doc (the desktop version of Office might be able to handle some corruption that the mobile version cannot).

At that point, I would suggest recreating the document that is causing the issue.

I hope this helps!

David