Corrupted Word doc on Floppy - retrieval?

[jla]

Just wondering if anyone could please recommend a program, preferably free,
or otherwise at least tried and tested and 'worth it', which might be able
to unscramble a word document on a floppy disk which seems to have become
corrupted? On trying to open the document, I get an error message 'invalid
file path' and something else I cant remember (sorry)..

Its not even my disk but Ive been asked if I can do anything with it?? I
found and downloaded one clever little program which did indeed inscramble
the disk and the document, but was repeatedly dotted with DEMO all the way
through the doc (until payment for subscription made ........of course).

If anyone has any ideas, Id love to be able to help my friend, who would be
dead chuffed.

Thanks in advance,

Julia

 

[Clive Savage]

Its not even my disk but Ive been asked if I can do anything with it?? I
found and downloaded one clever little program which did indeed inscramble
the disk and the document, but was repeatedly dotted with DEMO all the way
through the doc (until payment for subscription made ........of course).

If anyone has any ideas, Id love to be able to help my friend, who would be
dead chuffed.

Thanks in advance,

Julia

Whats the file name of this program please.


Bye for now.

Clive.

(e-mail address removed)

 

[jla]

I couldnt access or open this file from the floppy, it was a word document
created in wor 95 and tried to open in wor 2000.

The program I tried was called 'Docrepair' but needed regristration/payment
before it would allow complete recovery... all i got was 'demo' and missing
text in its place..... wouldnt allow me to copy it to hard drive or another
disk.

I found another program called 'Badcopy' which I downloaded, will try to
open the floppy in that, see what happens.

Thanks for your input
Julia
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Its not even my disk but Ive been asked if I can do anything with it?? I
found and downloaded one clever little program which did indeed inscramble
the disk and the document, but was repeatedly dotted with DEMO all the way
through the doc (until payment for subscription made ........of course).

If anyone has any ideas, Id love to be able to help my friend, who would be
dead chuffed.

Thanks in advance,

Julia

Whats the file name of this program please.


Bye for now.

Clive.

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Roger Spencelayh]

unscramble a word document on a floppy disk which seems to have become
corrupted?

Repeat after me:

"I will not open Office documents directly from a floppy disk."

Seriously, that's the best way known to corrupt an MS Office document.

Two things to try - first copy it to a hard disk and try opening it from
there. If that doesn't work, open it in Notepad (or any plain text
editor). You may be able to recover the text, but will lose all
formatting.

Roger

 

[Alan]

I couldnt access or open this file from the floppy, it was a word
document created in wor 95 and tried to open in wor 2000.

The program I tried was called 'Docrepair' but needed
regristration/payment before it would allow complete recovery... all
i got was 'demo' and missing text in its place..... wouldnt allow me
to copy it to hard drive or another disk.

Can you copy it to HD by normal means? If not, I'd guess that you've
developed bad sectors on the floppy itself. Try run scandisk on the
floppy and repair any problems (if possible). If bad sectors are
detected, throw the floppy away after copying its contents to HD - it
will only continue to give you grief.

 

[tlshell]

I couldnt access or open this file from the floppy, it was a word document
created in wor 95 and tried to open in wor 2000.

Worst case scenario, open it with the DOS text editor in a DOS box, do
your editing there to salvage any text.

 

[Roger Spencelayh]

Much more than this, the true motto is :

"I shall not open Office documents." )

Unfortunately, some of us don't have that luxury.

Roger

 

[msd13]

Worst case scenario, open it with the DOS text editor in a DOS box, do
your editing there to salvage any text.

If you find yourself in this situation you might find Bintext or
similar utility useful,
http://www.foundstone.com/knowledge/proddesc/bintext.html
it allows you to ignore some characters which are not part of the
readable character set in the file, and then save it, infact you might
even be able to open the file in notepad after that. ;o/

 

[Sami Sihvonen]

Repeat after me:
"I will not open Office documents directly from a floppy disk."
Seriously, that's the best way known to corrupt an MS Office document.
Two things to try - first copy it to a hard disk and try opening it

You can open it directly from floppy disk, marking it as read-only
file makes it safe since no writing will be done to the floppy disk.
But if you need to edit the contents of file, then it is better to
play it safe and copy the file first to your harddrive.

 

[jla]

Thanks Roger,
But in this instance the floppy wouldnt open at all, and it wouldnt let me
copy it to the hard disk either...corrupted!
Eventually I used scandisk on it and finally was able to open the doc in
Word but it was very jumbled up with rubbish...however, retreived!

Thanks for your input

Julia

Repeat after me:
"I will not open Office documents directly from a floppy disk."
Seriously, that's the best way known to corrupt an MS Office document.
Two things to try - first copy it to a hard disk and try opening it

You can open it directly from floppy disk, marking it as read-only
file makes it safe since no writing will be done to the floppy disk.
But if you need to edit the contents of file, then it is better to
play it safe and copy the file first to your harddrive.