WinZip file won't extract

Trying to extract some very important information (several years worth of customer information) and I'm getting the following errors:

Error in file #1: bad Zip file offset (Error local header signature not found): disk #1 offset: 0
Error in file #2: bad Zip file offset (Error local header signature not found): disk #1 offset: 4143
Error in file #3: bad Zip file offset (Error local header signature not found): disk #1 offset: 145591

Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

 

I've had that happen when the zip file was downloaded on Netscape but the same file would perform normally when downloaded with IE.

Was it a self executing zip file (.exe) or normal (.zip)? I have heard that changing the extension name will bypass this problem but I don't have any particulars.

Perhaps post this problem on the Netscape forum and hope for better results.

 

Unfortunately this wasn't downloaded, the zip file(s) were created by zipping a database and spanning it accross two disks. It looks as though the information on the first disk may be corrupted and I'm hoping there is a way to fix it.

 

For anyone interested, I got it fixed.

I upgraded from WinZip 7.0 to WinZip 8.1 SR-1

According to the WinZip site this latest version fixes a lot of the corruption problems encountered by earlier versions.

 

Well, I am interested KevinSaul. I've been searching all dang day, for a better answer than.... "It's corrupted."

Good to know.

Daizy

 

And I as well. It even leaves me in better shape than I was; I had 8.1 but not the sr1 upgrade.

Thanks for the report.

 

Having had somewhat the same problem ( one file on one disk ) it turned out ot be a bad floppy.

I now scandisk /surface ( or most of the time Norton DiskDocter ) all floppys before anything important is put on them. If any errors, it heads for the nearest trash bucket. Better to lose a disk than data.

BillyBob