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.mds, .mdf => comment les dézipper ?

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lerou -  
 belaidkamel -
Hello everyone, so here it is, I found something to download on an FTP, but for the same thing, there were 48 zip files, so I downloaded it... I open the first one and I get 2 files .mds and .mdf, the .mds is only in one of the 48 zip files while in the others I only get the .mdf file.
I’m getting ready to unzip it (with WinRAR) and it tells me: the archive is in an unknown format or is damaged.
However, I can decompress the .mds file.

What should I do?!

Thanks in advance.

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Answer 1 / 21
mitchoxv3 Posted messages 9 Status Member 4
 
You open it with Alcohol (you search for the file and then create an image with it).
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Kermitt31 Posted messages 3679 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   499
 
MDF and MDS are not compression formats... they are formats that allow you to store CD images...

You can burn them with Alcohol120% for example or read the images with a software called Deamon Tool that allows you to create virtual CD drives!

There you go, it's as simple as that!

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Answer 3 / 21
padrallyman69
 
Hi everyone, I have a problem, I expired my alcohol license ^^ and I don't know how to mount mds and mdf files on virtual drives... does it work with daemon tools?
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Valaur35 Posted messages 30 Registration date   Status Member 5
 
I would like to know if I need to burn both the MDS and MDF files onto the CD for it to work because I converted the MDF file to ISO and burned my game CD. The PlayStation logo appears, and then nothing!!! What should I do with the MDS file??? Thank you for your help, I'm struggling.
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Answer 5 / 21
lerou
 
I know Deamon, but that's not my problem; my problem is that I can't unzip the .rar file that contains my .mdf files.
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Answer 6 / 21
lerou
 
Actually, the thing I'm downloading is split into a bunch of zip files that contain .mdf files that I can't extract

I don't know if that's clear!
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Kermitt31 Posted messages 3679 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   499
 
Uh, which version of WinRAR do you have? That can happen sometimes when you don't have the latest version (or rather, if the archive was compressed with a version that's a bit too recent compared to yours...)
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Thai Proverb: Penguins in the fields,
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Answer 8 / 21
lerou
 
I have 3:30.
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Answer 9 / 21
Kermitt31 Posted messages 3679 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   499
 
And the archive is not simply corrupted?
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Thai Proverb: Penguins in the fields,
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Answer 10 / 21
lerou
 
corrupted?? what do you mean? interrupted?! but I can't decompress it
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Kermitt31 Posted messages 3679 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   499
 
Corrupted means that there is an error in the archive... so when you double-click, WinRAR manages to show you what is inside, but then when it comes to decompressing, it can't because the archive is not "intact."
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Thai Proverb: Penguins in the fields,
very harsh winter.
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Answer 11 / 21
lerou
 
Apparemment, il existe la version 3.42 (alors que j'utilise la 3.30 !!) Je vais l'essayer.
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Answer 12 / 21
lerou
 
same problem
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Answer 13 / 21
lerou
 
he is probably corrupt then
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Kermitt31 Posted messages 3679 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   499
 
Try to re-download
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Answer 15 / 21
lerou
 
it won't change anything I think because I have the same problem with the 48 zip ...
but I will try my luck
but you don't have to use anything special to decompress the .mdf simply?
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Answer 16 / 21
Kermitt31 Posted messages 3679 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   499
 
no it's not the .mdf that you decompress but the .rar or .zip that you downloaded... winamp doesn't care about the content of the archive, it decompresses it and that's it... after the result you should have your files. But the format of the files contained in the archive is transparent to winrar
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Thai Proverb: Penguins in the fields,
                                         very harsh winter.
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Answer 17 / 21
lerou
 
Okay, thank you, and it must be because my files are corrupted since I just downloaded another one and unzipped it (just in case), and it doesn't work either.

Thank you for your help.
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Papoune
 
MDF files are not compressed files, but an image of a CD; you can see the file size of the MDF once you decompress it with WinRAR. So to use your MDF files, you need Daemon Tools which is just a virtual CD drive.
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oxygen239
 
Use Alcohol 120% and try to open your MDF and MDS with ...

This is the type of file used by the software ...
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Manikins
 
Hello,
In this kind of situation, you have 48 rar or zip files that make up a single large mds file. You need to run the last rar and have all the others in the same directory for it to work. Logically, of the 48 files, one will not have exactly the same name (e.g., Mani-001.rar, Mani-002.rar ... and Mani-End-000 or 048
There you go, otherwise your archive is corrupted.
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Answer 18 / 21
Vierzon
 
you right-click on the first file, ... extract here!
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Answer 19 / 21
syl
 
Install QuickZip, I encountered the same problem and with QuickZip I was able to unzip it, then you use Daemon Tool to read the files....
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Answer 20 / 21
ni2h
 
Hello, I have another problem, the computer is still asking for the original CD. I don't understand.
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