(PARity file) A file that contains the computed parity bits from a source file. PAR files are generated from Usenet archives that have been broken into multiple files because of file size limitations ...

Reader ST discovered that aging data backup CDs he had burned had become unreadable, so now he uses QuickPar to make recovering data on disc with bad sectors possible. Here's how he does it. ST writes ...

Correct me, but from my reading, the PAR2 files are just there to verify the integrity of the contents, so I ran QuickPar on them and it says everything is good (no repairs needed).<BR><BR>So I have 5 ...