Corrupted Encrypted Word 2003 Files

[Guest]

This is a message from a complete idiot. This is the second time I have done
this, and after the last catastrophe, promised everyone with ears I'd back
up. I didn't. I'm an idiot! Kind of terrifying to think my day job is in IT...

I have large word documents which I encrypt due to security issues. My
registry died last week and took out Windows (XP Pro), so I had to put
another installation on and set it all up again. All of my documents were
(again, stupidly) stored in folders on my old login's desktop, but were all
okay (or all seemed okay).

....except one file, which is about 500kb and was encrypted. Now when I open
it, I get a file permission error. When I recover text from the document
using several different recovery programs, its gibberish (of course, because
of the encryption). When I try to insert the file into a new document, word
tells me "user does not have access privelages".

Oh, please, please, someone tell me if there's a way to fix this...! any
help is honestly, sincerely, gratefully appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I should have added that this file had two passwords (ie. it was
reserved, and another password for modifying)

 

[Tim]

Hi,

Read this article about Word Passwords types and how it's possible to
recover http://lastbit.com/word-article.asp
And you can try express recovery service
http://lastbit.com/express-recovery.asp
Best regards, Tim.

 

[Guest]

Hi Tim! Thanks for your advice, but I probably didn't explain myself well
enough.

I know what the password is to open the document, the problem is, word isn't
prompting for the password since the crash - it just says that "Word
experienced an error trying to open the file, check the file permissions,
available memory or use recover text from any file" (that's a summary, not
exactly what is says).

I have found elsewhere on the net other Win XP/ Office 2003 users with the
same problem however can't find a solution. That error message is also
associated with a problem opening Office 2003/SP1 docs with earlier versions
of office, however the fix suggested by Microsoft for that problem didn't
work.

Files under 500kb are opening just fine, it's files over 500kb that no
longer prompt for password.