File Repair is a free software for Windows that can fix corrupt file types. The program can repair the following types of files:

• Word documents: doc, docx, docm, rtf
• Excel speadsheets: xls, xlsx, xla
• Zip and rar archives
• Video formats: avi, mp4, mov, wmv, asf, mpg
• Image formats: jpeg, gif, tiff, bmp, png, raw images
• PDF documents
• Access databases: mdb, mde, accdb, accde
• PowerPoint presentations: ppt, pps, pptx
• Music formats: mp3, wav

Support for that many file types is one of the strengths of the file recovery software. It should be clear that the software won’t be able to repair every corrupt file type, as it depends a lot on the corruption or damage itself. A file that has a size of 0 bytes after a crash cannot be repaired by the application for instance.

File Repair can fix the following common errors:

• The format of the file is not recognized by the application.
• The file cannot be read
• The file cannot be accessed
• The default application for the file type cannot open the file
• low system resource errors, out of memory errors.

Here is how the repair works:

You select a single source file under “Select the source file to be repaired”. A click on the … opens a file browser that you use to select a file that you want repaired.

A click on start repair tries to repair the file. The file will be saved in the same directory but with a different file name. The original file is left untouched which means you do not need to create a backup of it before repairing it in the software.

The process log details the repair process. File Repair tries to read the document and recover data that is not readable anymore. This usually takes less than a minute to complete.

Users with multiple corrupt or damaged files need to add and repair every file individually, which is not very comfortable. Options to use the command line or a batch mode would be more than welcome.

Still, File Repair can be used if you are out of options and need access to a damaged file. The freeware can be downloaded from the developer website. It should be compatible with all recent versions of the Windows operating system. It was tested on a 64-bit Windows 7 system.

Damaged Docx 2 Txt and Corrupt Xlsx 2 Csv are two portable software programs for the Windows operating system that can recover data from corrupt Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft Word 2007 documents. The programs require the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0. Both programs have been developed by the same software developer and work therefor similar. The user has to load a Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word document into the program in the first step. This can take a while depending on the size and complexity of the document.

All accessible worksheets or pages will be displayed in the program’s interface after the document has been analyzed by the software program.

The data of one or all Excel worksheets can then be exported into a Csv file. A similar process is applied to Word documents which can be exported into the Txt format. Both programs only work with the Office 2007 Word and Excel formats and not the former standard formats. They can be downloaded from the developer’s website.