Before attempting a repair, it helps to understand why compressed archives fail. A .zip file acts as a digital container. If any part of that container is altered or missing, your operating system will flag the entire archive as invalid or corrupted. The most common causes of archive errors include:

You have found a ZIP file of SWV’s sophomore album, New Beginning (released in 1996), but the archive is corrupted. Perhaps the CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) failed. Perhaps the tracks won’t extract, or you are missing Songs 10 through 15.

That DAT tape, Maya now believed, was inside this broken zip.