
Problems with your hard disk, like bad sectors. Computer shut down/crashes/power outage before closing files. The browser has problems in writing a downloaded file to a disk. Compression app experiences problems while creating an archive. Office app suffers an error when saving or creating a file. Hence, knowing the causes might help you understand how a corrupt file produces, and prevent future file corruption nightmares.
Did you get the chance to open a file on your PC, USB drive or camera memory card, but the files are not open? This is a common sign of a file getting corrupted.
As we have observed, the corruption error happens most frequently to specific file types including jpeg/jpg photos, gif images, Excel & Word documents, Zip compressed files, and browser downloaded files.