Which file types does it handle?

Word, Excel and PowerPoint in both modern (docx, xlsx, pptx) and legacy (doc, xls, ppt) formats; OpenDocument (odt, ods, odp); PDF; JPEG and PNG images; ZIP and EPUB archives; and JSON, XML and SQLite data files. 37 extensions in total.

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The file that
will not open.

10 of 12 dead files opened again 37 file types 0 files uploaded

The quotation due this evening. The ledger nobody else has a copy of. Windows says it is corrupt and offers nothing else. ARIA REPAIR pulls out whatever is still readable inside it and writes a new file that opens — on your own machine, without touching the original.

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ARIA REPAIR

The actual application. Every file gets a plain verdict — including the one that opened but came back empty.

“The file is corrupt and cannot be opened.”

That sentence arrives at the worst possible moment, and Windows offers you nothing after it.

A Word file that will not open is not really destroyed. Underneath, a .docx is a container of separate parts — the text, the styles, the fonts, an index that lists them. Damage the index and every reader refuses the file while every word of your document is still sitting inside it, untouched.

That is the commonest way a document “dies”: a copy interrupted, a USB stick pulled out, a full disk, a bad sector. The tail of the file goes, and the tail is where the index lives.

ARIA REPAIR ignores the broken index entirely and walks the file part by part, taking whatever still decodes. It then rebuilds the container around what survived, and mends the pieces that need it so Word or Excel will accept the result.

What it will not do is pretend. If the part holding your text was the part that was destroyed, it says so — in those words — instead of handing you a blank page labelled “repaired”.

Four answers, and one of them is bad news

Every file gets exactly one of these. The colours and the words are the software's own — this is what you see, not a marketing summary.

Recovered

The file opens again and everything that was in it is there.

Repaired

Something inside was broken and has been mended. The file opens and your content is intact.

Partly recovered

It opens and your content is there, but some parts could not be saved — usually formatting, fonts or document properties.

Opens, but empty

The damaged part was the part holding your content. The file opens correctly and there is nothing in it. Keep your original.

That last one is the reason this page exists. A tool that reports it as a successful repair invites you to delete the corrupt original — and that original is the only thing a data-recovery specialist could still work from. We would rather tell you the truth and keep you out of that.

Measured against real Microsoft Office

Not against our own code. Real Excel and real Word were asked to open every repaired file, and to read the cells and paragraphs back.

Opened again, content intact10 of 12

Opened, but empty — reported as such2 of 12

Still would not open0 of 12

The method, so you can check it.

Twelve Word and Excel files were created by Microsoft Office itself, then damaged six ways that files actually die: truncated at 90% and at 65%, header zeroed, index record smashed, one part corrupted mid-stream, and the index offset pointed at nothing.

Microsoft Office refused all twelve. After repair, Office opened ten of them with their cells and paragraphs readable, and opened the other two empty — which ARIA REPAIR had already said would happen.

Twelve files across two formats is a small, honest sample, and it is the number we publish rather than a rounder one. Your file may do better or worse than these; that is why the trial exists.

37 file types

And it reads what a file actually is, not what its name claims — a surprising share of “corrupt” files are simply mislabelled, which is the cheapest repair there is.

Worddocx · docm · dotx · doc

Excelxlsx · xlsm · xltx · xls

PowerPointpptx · pptm · potx · ppt

OpenDocumentodt · ods · odp

PDFpdf

Imagesjpg · jpeg · png · gif · bmp

Archiveszip · epub

Datajson · xml · sqlite · db

What it will cost

One computer, one year, and every update in that year — including new file formats as they are added.

ARIA REPAIR — 1 year	₹1,999
ARIA REPAIR — 2 years	₹2,999 ₹1,500 a year
ARIA REPAIR — 3 years	₹3,999 ₹1,333 a year

Recovery software is usually sold either as a one-off panic purchase at several thousand rupees a file, or as a subscription you forget to cancel. This is a licence for the software, priced below both, and it keeps working offline for the whole year whether or not you need it again.

Every licence covers one computer and works fully offline. Try the free trial first — seven days and three files, no card needed.

Questions

Can it recover every corrupt file?

No, and no tool can. Data destroyed inside a compressed part of a file is gone — there is nothing left to read. On our published test of twelve genuinely dead Office files, ten opened again with their content, two opened but were empty, and none stayed broken. ARIA REPAIR tells you which of those happened for each file.

Will it change or overwrite my damaged file?

Never. Every repair writes a new file beside the original, named “<your file> (repaired)”. The original is opened read-only and is never modified, so nothing is lost by trying.

Is my file uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything runs on your own Windows computer. A corrupt file is often the only copy of something confidential, and uploading it to a website to be “fixed” is exactly what its owner should not do.

What does “opens but is empty” actually mean?

It means the part of the file holding your text or your cells was the part that was destroyed. The repaired file opens correctly and has nothing in it. We report that separately from a real recovery, because being told “repaired” might lead you to delete the corrupt original — and that original is the only thing a specialist could still work from.

Does it handle DWG or SolidWorks files?

Not yet, and we will not claim otherwise. Those formats are on the list, but nothing about them has been tested, so they are not supported and are not priced in. Today it handles Office, OpenDocument, PDF, images, archives and data files.

Windows only?

Yes — Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. It runs as a normal desktop application and needs no account.

Before you delete it, let it try.

A file that will not open is worth one attempt. ARIA REPAIR never changes the original, so trying costs you nothing but the minute it takes.