DOC recover from formatted drive

[Guest]

I have a hard drive that was formatted in error. I used a software that
recovered all of my Doc and XLS files. I have them now all recovered on a CD.
When I try to open a word file however I get a box that states file
conversion and three boxes, windows default, MS-DOS, or other conversion.
Why am I getting this.. are the files distroyed... or am I using a wrong
version of office. I am on a different machine.

 

[Poliwog]

I suspect your recovery software found what it could and saved it in
some raw file format--a good job on its part, I must say. You need to
pick whichever of Word's options gives you the best results.

Les

 

[Guest]

Hi Les, not sure what you mean by options... I used each of the ones
mentioned below and have the same results. Are the files crupt? Does the
recovery software really work? The wording is all messed up like
€ NextInstance ¨ÿÿÿnk

 

[Graham Mayor]

The files are probably corrupt - you *may* be able to recover some of the
content by using the file open and repair option or the recover any text
from file option from the file open dialog. Furthermore you are making
things even more difficult by trying to open them from the CD. Copy to the
hard drive, unset the read only property flag (right click - properties in
Windows Explorer) and then attempt to open them.

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