I made backups of my files and put them into rars and burned them to dvd's with clonecd. Now when I go back and try to access these files, I can't open any of them because they are all in .000, .001, .002 etc. I can open up the .000 file, and extract part of the file, but I can't open up the other ones. I tried renaming those files extensions to .000, but that didn't work.

How do I open up these bloody files and extract my rar?And why the hell would clonecd use such an unorthodox image???

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If one of the segments of a RAR archive is damaged or corrupted, for what I know you can't recover the archive.

It makes a .DVD file to go with the .000, .001, .002 parts.

You load the .DVD file into CloneCD (or ImgBurn ) when you want to burn them.

The .DVD tells the program about the other files and makes sure they're put back together properly during the burn.

Merge the 000, 001 etc files if you so wish and then rename the result to *.ISO.

Then you can burn that in anything.

Unrar the files, first open winrar and then find your files. Highlight the first file .001 then select under the commands tab add files to archive. Give the file a name and select where you want to put it. Let it do it's thing and you should have your iso back.

So how do I merge the first file, .000, with the new archive?

Sorry, start with .000 and if all the others are in same folder is should automatically add the rest. You should end up with a iso or whatever format you had before you rar them. You are basicly rebuliding the archive.

So you want me to unrar them? You said to "add them to archive" (rar them) in your other post.

I tried unraring the .000, but it only gave me part of my initial file, the other files didn't unrar and I can't force them to open with winrar since it won't even read the .001 .002 ... files.

I'm not sure if I'm reading your post right

most likely your program didn't split it properly. if you open the .000 file with winrar then it should recognize the subsequent files. the .001 file should have the same file size as the rest except for the last file. if not then the file is corrupted.

Start winrar.

Find your files.

Samplefile.000
Samplefile.001
Samplefile.002
Samplefile.003
Samplefile.004
Etc

Click on the first file, it should be highlighted.

Under the commands tab in winrar select add files to archive.

Give it a name and where you want to put it.

Click okay, winrar should now attached all the files .000 to whatever, after it is finished you should end up with a file or files.

Now you should be able to right click on that file or files and extract the data.

A lot of large files are distributed over the Internet this way.

You will have files

Samplefile.000
Samplefile.001
Samplefile.002
Samplefile.003
Samplefile.004
Etc

When you use Winrar you can archive them together, so what it will do is take all the files and connect them together so instead of what's above you will get one rar'd file. It could be a Iso. So it will be a rar'd iso. Now all you have to do is extract it and then use the right program to burn the iso.

Yeah it doesn't do that, it just puts the first file into the archive, and when I extract it the first files is just what is extracted. I dunno, maybe I have a corrupt file.

These .000 and .001 files are nothing like I've dealt with in the past, they are nothing like the .r00 and .r01 files where all you have to do is right click and extract.

okay select all and see what you get.

Word. It has the same size as all the others, except for the last, but the only thing else that's different about them is the fact that only the .000 file will open, and the .001, .002, .003 cannot be read in any way possible.

It just puts all the .000...files into a big rar :/

This is what I mean.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/207335

http://forums.ircspy.com/showthread.php?t=28422#extract


What were your files before?

Yeah, I know that's what you meant. And when I do exactly what it is done in those instruction guides, winrar just pops up with no archives found in selected files, or if I do it the quicker way (right click > extract here) it just gives me an error.

My files before they were ripped down into .001 files? They were rar splits into 4.37GB files of games and of My Documents.

Well then it is possible that they are corrupt. Well at least you kind of learned something out of all this. You understand the function of the extension in question that is broken into smaller pieces for easier transfer / management.

I still think you may have your wires crossed here.

WinRAR may have nothing to do with these files in their current state, it will open up ISO files and that's why it opens the .000 file and nothing else (000 is the first bit of the ISO).

I'm sure that if it really was a split RAR file then WinRAR would either deal with it or error out on opening it. Not only that, the default naming scheme for WinRAR is *.part000.rar, *.part001.rar etc now. Prior to that is was rar, r00,r01 etc. Would you really have forced it to use 000? I would guess 'no'.

If you have a hex editor, open the 000 file. The first few bytes will say 'Rar' in ASCII if it's a rar file. If not, it's probably a split ISO. This would fall in line with what I originally said about CloneCD. When it reads discs it splits them in chunks and names them *.000, *.001 etc.

Winrar can be

Multi-volume SETS (many files: .r01/.r02/etc or .part01.rar/.part02.rar/etc or .001/.002/etc).

So your saying that when he copied his already rar'd files with clonecd to disk that is converts them to *.000 ,*.001 etc ?

Well it would seem the poster doesn't really understand what they've done/are doing - so who knows what's really happened!

It just seemed weird that they'd even mention CloneCD as it can't 'build' images from files and so the only thing it COULD have done is READ a disc that they'd burnt in something else. The image read in CloneCD would have been written to files with the .000, .001 etc naming scheme.

It then makes sense that WinRAR wouldn't be able to patch the entire file together (it doesn't support split ISO files) but it COULD read just the 000 part (which is enough to read the file system).

Again, the easy way to check is just to open 000 in a hex editor and check the signature of the file in the first few bytes.

I was thinking that too. How did he take a bunch of rar files and burn them with clonecd, and you are correct who knows what exactly happened. Let's see if he uses a hex editor and what becomes of it.

Excuse me? I don't think so. I've done this a million times with other programs on cds. This time I did it on dvd's, so I found clonecd and I used that to write my backups to cds. Unknowing that clonecd uses such a terrible system of format, I used clonecd because it could copy some games I wasn't able to copy and backed it up.

It must be able to do something, because after I rar'd my backups into 4.37gb, clonecd allowed me to select them to be written to dvd's.

Now what should i do if they are splits of the iso...? How would I combine all the files?

When I get home from work later, I will try and recreate the problem.

lol well if you've burnt a big rar file as if it were an image, I guess once you've read it back off the disc again you just need to recombine the files using 'copy /b' from the command prompt or any other file merge program.
Fingers crossed you'll then have your big rar file back.

And I fully stand by what I said earlier. If you'd known what you were doing, you'd have known you can't use CloneCD on anything but images. That's why the buttons say 'Read image file' and 'Write Image file'. It just burnt that rar file 'as-is' because it plays dumb and just assumes big files are DVD images - without looking for a file system or anything. It assumes the user has some idea of what they're doing and knows the limitations of the program.
I guess it's not 100% your fault though.