By Sophia | Last Updated
There are various reasons for the PowerPoint file corruptions and the common ones could be hard drive failure, virus infection, problems of MS PowerPoint program and the damaged PPT file content. Next, we will focus on these general causes of a corrupted PowerPoint file to illustrate their relating solutions for you, which can effectively help fix your corrupted MS PowerPoint presentation most of the time.
Hard drive failure can corrupt your PowerPoint file and stop you from accessing it. To identify whether it makes your presentation unopenable, you can try to move the broken PPT file to another drive. For example, when the corrupted PPT file is saved in an external hard drive, you can move it to the internal hard disk of your computer. If the moved presentation is accessible in the second drive, your trouble is solved and it might indicate that you need to troubleshoot the former disk.
The system infected with virus could also destroy your PowerPoint file. It could make your PPT file unreadable or even inaccessible. Therefore, system scanning is a worth-trying way for you to repair your corrupted PowerPoint file at this time. You can use the Windows inbuilt safety program - Windows Defender to deeply and fully scan your OS for malware or apply the third-party antivirus software to do the scanning job.
You can follow this solution "MS PowerPoint program reinstallation" when you can open the corrupted presentation in the MS PowerPoint alternative or you find that the problematic PPT file works normally in the PowerPoint safe mode but not in the normal mode of PowerPoint. For how to open your presentation in the safe mode of MS PowerPoint, you can execute the operations below.
Step 1: Access the start menu, type powerpnt /safe in the search bar and press Enter button to run PowerPoint in safe mode.
Step 2: Click File option in the upper pane of the blank presentation. Then choose Open button in the left menu and select Browse option under it.
Step 3: Locate to the corrupted PPT file in the shown Open dialog and see whether it can be opened successfully.
If the aboved solutions fail to recover your corrupted PowerPoint file, there is a high possibility that the presentation is damaged. But don't worry, you can save your corrupted PPT files with the 2 recommend utilities here: "Open and Repair" as well as "iSunshare PowerPoint Repair Genius".
Open and Repair is the built-in utility of MS PowerPoint, which works on repairing slightly-corrupted PowerPoint files.
Step 1: Launch MS PowerPoint and click Browse option under Open section.
Step 2: In the popped out Open window, choose the corrupted PowerPoint file firstly. After that, click the down arrow of the Open button and select Open and Repair option. Instantly, PowerPoint will repair the corrupted PowerPoint file for you.
iSunshare PowerPoint Repair Genius is the professional PPTX repair tool that can repair corrupted MS .pptx file within a click-through process and ends the file repair operation with a healthy PowerPoint file.
Step 1: Install iSunshare PowerPoint Repair Genius on your Windows computer.
Step 2: Run the installed PPTX repair tool and add the corrupted .pptx file to it.
Step 3: Click Recover button to begin recovering the corrupted PowerPoint file.
Step 4: Hit Save button to store the repaired PowerPoint file to a desired location like the internal folder, the connected USB drive, etc.
Now, it's certainly the time for you to check the repaired presentation.
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