Any Way to Recover Overwritten File?

[Annmef1]

Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and changed
some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2. I have done this
before without any problem, but I think I clicked save before save as. Now I
have Document #1 and #2 with the same content, the changed version.

I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I could
find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the original document
without doing a system restore, which of course would cause me to lose other
material?

All ideas are appreciated. I'm running MS Windows XP Home.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and
changed some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2.
I have done this before without any problem, but I think I clicked
save before save as. Now I have Document #1 and #2 with the same
content, the changed version.
I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I
could find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the
original document without doing a system restore, which of course
would cause me to lose other material?

All ideas are appreciated. I'm running MS Windows XP Home.

Not really. It's likely lost forever.
Perhaps - if you do this often - something like "Executive Software's
Undelete" would be a good product to purchase/install/use.

 

[afbosch]

try doing a search on google under data recovery or file recovery or
file recovery after reformat


there are prgram that can find format or deleteed file
i know i use one as i format my hard drive the wrong one, and post a
question on this forum, but does look like i will get a answer to it

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not say how good it is, but it did find files on my formated hard
drive even after windo try to write to it and i did to

 

[rootj4m13]

You could allways try Start>run and type %temp% to see if you have a
old copy stored in there somewhere. Most likley not

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thinking I would save myself some time, I took Word Document #1 and
changed some of the language and designated it as Word Document #2. I
have done this before without any problem, but I think I clicked save
before save as. Now I have Document #1 and #2 with the same content,
the changed version.
I have looked everywhere I know to look in my computer to see if I
could find the earlier document. Is there anyway to recover the
original document without doing a system restore, which of course
would cause me to lose other material?

Sorry, but no. Not only can you not recover it without using System Restore,
you can't recover it even *with* System Restore.

System Restore restores the operating system. It is not a backup tool, and
does nothing to restore your data.

 

[Annmef1]

Well, I thought that might be the case. Thanks everyone for responding.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Well, I thought that might be the case. Thanks everyone for
responding.

You're welcome. Sorry we couldn't be more help.