error, chkdsk

[Christina]

Questio, when I try to open excel or winmx, an error pops
up saying chkdsk, so i ran a chkdsk and it doesnt do
anything. The error also says corrupted file. In excel I
have some important work that I need to open, and it only
opens in Turkish, if I change it to English, its a bunch
of boxes and letters, its not my work I need. How do I
change it back.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

What excel version are you using? Try to find somebody with 2003
to see if they can open the file. Otherwise you would look for
some commercial software that might be of help


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300639&sd=tech

http://www.officerecovery.com/excel/index.htm

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For everyone's benefit keep the discussion in the newsgroup.

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi Peo!

I've tried to open this file with Excel 2003 and drawn a blank on it.

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi!

Further efforts. Anyone got other ideas? Christina sounds desperate.


Apart from various modes of Excel opening, I've tried Excel Viewer
which sometimes works. Also OpenOffice. But none of these work.
Notepad opens the file without any problem but you don't get to see
much that is intelligible.

I'm inclined to think that it is data corruption rather than physical
corruption. Most likely cause is opening with a non-Excel program and
closing by that program. If that is the case then it looks pretty
hopeless.

You might do a Google search and find some organisation that will
attempt opening but I really wouldn't hold out much hope

 

[Guest]

i really dont know what to do...

-----Original Message-----
Hi!

Further efforts. Anyone got other ideas? Christina sounds desperate.


Apart from various modes of Excel opening, I've tried Excel Viewer
which sometimes works. Also OpenOffice. But none of these work.
Notepad opens the file without any problem but you don't get to see
much that is intelligible.

I'm inclined to think that it is data corruption rather than physical
corruption. Most likely cause is opening with a non- Excel program and
closing by that program. If that is the case then it looks pretty
hopeless.

You might do a Google search and find some organisation that will
attempt opening but I really wouldn't hold out much hope

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Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
(e-mail address removed)



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[Dave Peterson]

Maybe it was MSWord that opened and saved it.

If you still have it, can you try opening in MSWord. Maybe a little bit can be
recovered.

 

[Norman Harker]

Thanks Dave!

No luck with that one.