Missing first file from multiple rar archive

[JN]

I downloaded a movie from some ftp server. It was made of 49 files (.rar, .r00 - r47, each 15000000 bytes). But the first file (.rar) is damaged (zero length). So I downloaded a cca first 50 MB of the whole movie from P2P . (Normally I don't use P2P because of the firewall). Is it possible to somewhat reconstruct the whole movie ? WinRAR utility cannot do anything without the first file. I tried to compress the 50MB file and thus recreate the first part of the archive, but was not successful. Any hope for me ? Thanks.

[Forum Troll]

Maybe try re-downloading the file, or find a server that has the same files, otherwise I would guess your SOL.

[JN]

Re-downloading doesn't help. The file has zero length already on server. There's no other place where to find it (by Amun ftp search). I was hoping for some WinRar tweaking. I see (by clicking at) that every .rxx file has stored information about the former file (full length, remaining legth, filename and CRC). But CRC seems to be the problem - it differs when compressing the former file and when compressing the partial 50MB file. That's why my created .rar doesn't fit.
Never mind. I won't be for the first time, when I download something and cannot use it.

[Muppet Meat]

30 to 50 percent of the SVCD movies on the file sharing scene have missing or currupted rars. I find that Xvid movies have a much lower rate of missing or currupted rar files and programs are even less of a problem. I never could understand it but redownloading never helps really. I feel bad for the people spending days to get these 4 gig DVD5 movie image files that are out there now only to find a missing rar. It kinda makes you want to just go out and buy the darn movie ya know what Im sayin.

[tmaxwell2435]

Are there any par or par2 files? If so you can reconstruct missing files with those.

[JN]

No, only .sfv - list of all CRCs.

[madvideos]

try looking on usenet.

[The village idiot]

try looking on usenet.

That would take too much work. People don't like work, they like the other crap.