Errors by the application when creating RAR files.Use of random unreliable third party tools to extract RAR files.Bad sectors on the storage media where RAR files are stored.Incorrect download or transfer of RAR file over internet can introduce incorrect data into the file and cause corruption Now that we’ve see the symptoms of RAR file corruption, let us look into some reasons for corruption in the RAR file WinRAR file is either unknown or damaged.RAR archive could not be decompressed correctly.Some of the common error messages you may see are listed below as follows. Due to corruption, the RAR archive may display various error messages or in other cases, may refuse to open. We can certainly help you with that, but what you need to understand is that your RAR archive is behaving this way because it is corrupted. Is there any way to fix this error and extract contents of the RAR file?” I don’t understand what caused the corruption, but I am unable to extract contents of this RAR file. Today, when I tried to extract contents from this file, WinRAR refused to complete the task because of RAR file corruption. “I have an important RAR archive on my system.