"CRC Corrupt, Cant Extract File" Error in Zip
A .cab or cabinet file is a library of zipped files stored in a single archive. These files are used to organize installation files which are copied to the users system. A large compressed file could be spread over many .cab files.
.Cab is a group of files which are compressed using ZIP and downloaded together into a single archive. In order to access a single file from the compressed archive, it is required to extract it.
Each file compressed in .cab file is stored entirely within a single folder. A cabinet file might contain one or more folders or portions of folders. These are generally application or device drives that are extracted and installed on your system to avail specific services.
Under some circumstances, when you try to extract the zip archive to use the .cab file, you may fail to do it. Instead of completing the extraction process, zip may give you an error message similar to the following:
"Data2.cab, CRC corrupt. Cannot extract files"
This error message gets displayed every time when you try to extract the zipped folder.
Grounds of the difficulty
As the error message states, the zip archive has got damaged due to the CRC corruption. The CRC or Cyclic Redundancy Check of the zip archive has not completed and it cant be extracted.
Due to corruption, zip archive cant be extracted and you cant access the files stored on it. It is really very grave situation for a computer user and needs to be solved as quickly as possible.
In such circumstances, it is required to repair the zip archive and extract it to access the files. Zip repair is possible through the help of third party applications known as Zip recovery software.
Zip recovery software are the specially designed application programs to meet different users zip corruption related troubles. These software can repair the damaged zip archive in each and every case of corruption and are capable of extracting the zip archive.
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