Disk failure, need to recover lost doc

G

Guest

I was writing in a word document that I had saved in a USB memory. I had
nothing saved at the hard drive, stupidly me. Suddenly it crashed and the
document weren't to be found on the USB memory stick. Later on I found a
rescue saved txt.file on my harddrive. I tried to read it both in Word,
notepad and wordpad, but I could just read some parts of the text.

It looks like this "????????????????????????????? small text
part????????????e???????
#####################################################
text part????????????????????????????????? longer text part????????????
me????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? and so on
#####################################################
Pleace,help
me????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"

Can I somehow read/translate the ?-marks in the between.
 
G

Graham Mayor

The document is corrupt. You cannot somehow magic the missing data back into
existence.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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J

JoAnn Paules

There's rarely anything magic about computers. That's because they give off
a lot of EMI. It prevents the magic from being able to have an effect on
your documents. You should see the effect it has on my crystal ball.

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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
C

CyberTaz

EMI - is that ElectroMagic Impenetrability?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
 
A

advisor

Hi!

I thought so. I just hoped for some magic. Thanks for answering.
Click to expand...

It might not have been corrupt. I don't know why a Word doc would have
been saved as a text file, but Word documents are not usually readable
in Notepad anyway, even perfectly good ones.

For future reference, here's a site with some information on Word
document recovery: www.word-recovery.info .
 

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