ANALYSIS FORENSIC DIAGNOSTIC

Corrupted File Analyzer

Drop in a file you already know is broken. This runs identification, structural validation, and near-miss header checks together, classifies what's actually wrong, estimates how much of the file is recoverable where that's a real computable thing — and tells you exactly which tool to open next.

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Common error messages this diagnoses

If you're here because something threw one of these, this tool shows you exactly what's wrong and how much is recoverable:

  • "This file is damaged and could not be opened" — generic message from whatever app you tried — this tool tells you which part is actually wrong.
  • "The file is corrupted or in an unsupported format" — this tool distinguishes those two very different cases.

What this tool deliberately doesn't do

This analyzer classifies and routes — it doesn't repair anything or extract recoverable data itself; that stays a job for the specialist tools it points you to (or, for data carving/thumbnail extraction, isn't built yet at all). The recoverable-byte estimate is only computed where a file format actually has a locatable "this is where it broke" point — PNG chunks, JPEG markers, a short read against a declared size. For formats without that kind of internal structure (most of the 120+ signatures in the database, and PDF's object graph in particular) it says so honestly instead of guessing a number. The classification is a deterministic read of real evidence, not a machine-learned or statistical confidence score.