And while it can be specified on the command line, the Windows GUI version only allows setting it up to 10 %. 256 MiB in total), the options normally used are expressed in % ot the size. Even though the recovery blocks can be as large 2^19 'sectors' (=2^9 B i.e. Recovery blocks, though frequently present in archives, will probably not help you. You are probably out of luck, dexter30 although you failed to disclose any more facts about the file inside the archive (how large is it?), it seems that nothing will help help you - only getting the missing parts. Wow, another posthunter teetering on the brink of breaking the rules, trolling obnoxiously on a forum called videohelp. Wow.another first time poster teetering on the edge of illegal activity on a web site called.