Comments on: Cleverly Repair Large Corrupted Files with BitTorrent Client Checksum Hash Scans

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:19:30 +0000

Just as a (very) minor note, the hashing system uses SHA-1, not MD5 (very, very rare).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file

By: St0n3rz

St0n3rz — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:30:29 +0000

TY so much u helped a stoner put down the mouse and pick the bong back up ty ty ty ty

im hopeless at computers and didnt wana download 8 gigs again this way i only had to download 50 kbs
tytytytyty

By: u100hMicky

u100hMicky — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:21:52 +0000

wincrc, or
filerepair, (http://filerepair.sourceforge.net/) or
par2, or
winrar, recovery record.(2-10%)
winrar, recovery volume (rev)

bittorrent is great.
but filerepair would be greater if it had more features, integrating a recovery record, or using MD5/CRC to reconstruct file-blocks.

msg me at ICQ:593407940

By: brokenhead

brokenhead — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:44:13 +0000

Ingenious and pefectly valid procedure. BT downloads vs. direct downloads are preferable for this very reason. MD5 or any other checksum is irrelevant if the filed has been DLed via BT.

By: shamit

shamit — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:10:36 +0000

i am interest each & every recovery files, folder and other useful software, please send the detial at the earliest

By: R

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:57:49 +0000

Torrenting a file you have already legally downloaded should be legal – the torrenting technology itself is legal, it’s only when you download content without the authors’ permission that it becomes illegal.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:44:09 +0000

yes this is a very awesome trick to recover say, a couple files in a huge collection of a torrent. really cool stuff.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:21:06 +0000

Just thought I\’d mention my rather awesome experience with this trick. Three years or ago, I\’d downloaded the Doom 3 demo while at university, knowing that my punily-spec\’d laptop wouldn\’t manage it. But I was going home for the weekend where my far beefier desktop resided. So I pulled all the music off my 1GB (spinning disk) mp3 player and shoved it on. When I got home I copied it to the Windows desktop and was horrified to find that corruption errors stopped it from unpacking. (Quite predictable, given the medium). So I found another torrent, lazily saved it to the desktop too, and watched in amazement as it jumped to 99% and completed within a few seconds.