[color:"orange"]This is the file that I was referring to not the entire .rar, sorry for my mix up there.[/color]
There was no mix up.
WinRar may be able to repair the archive or recover individual files, but I think any other programs (at least freeware ones) would be limited to recovering the full rar file. You could try the trial version of WinRar (or the freeware command line unrar program) if you want, but I suspect too much of the file has problems reading for that.
[color:"orange"]After recieving these results I tried the Recovery function of CDCheck[/color]
CDCheck should have replaced any unreadable sections of the file with zeros, so you would end up with a 500MB file on your hard drive, the same size as the original.
[color:"orange"]As you can see from above there are a total of 4 unreadable sectors on the disc, with another 45 sectors that are not totally readable.[/color]
Take the recovered 'imagelists.rar' file and run it through the physical file splitter
Chainsaw, using a chunk size of 515KB. It would be convenient to create a new folder 'C:\dd\' and direct the output there, or move the chunks there afterwards.
This will produce 995 files, some of which contain the unreadable or mostly unreadable sections from the CD. These pieces can be identified by using
FileCheck and a
crc file (8KB) created from my imagelists.rar file. After running the program, switch to the Verify tab, then click the '...' button beside the text box, browse to where you extracted my crc file and open it. After clicking the 'Verify' button it will check your rar pieces against mine, and report any differences, which you can reply here with (only the file names are needed).
Assuming a reasonable number of errors, it should be easier to replace those pieces than the full CPackedb.1c file.
Note: FileCheck expects the files to be in the original locations to verify, so if you put the split file chunks in a location other 'c:\dd', open the CRC file in Wordpad (for example), and do a search-and-replace so the folder paths match your own.
If CDCheck renames the recovered file, rename it back to 'imagelists.rar' before splitting it into chunks.
