Large file in Word has lost ALL its text!!

[Carol]

I have been working with a file in Word 2000 for over 4
months, each time I access it I am updating it until it
now has/had approximately 84 pages. (Of course, I have
not been saving it to a spare disk...to easy.)
I opened the file yesterday and it is empty!!! I teach
Word so I am very familiar with what to do and what not
to do as far as saving the file as I go. I would not have
selected it all and pressed any key to delete all the
text. Is there a way to restore the file as it was before
it went blank using Windows XP? Assuming the area where
the file exists has not been overwriten. Any suggestions?
I have looked at the restore the entire disk from a
certain date, but I am looking for just restoring ONE
file, not the entire disk. Thanks in advance for your
help.

 

[kurttrail]

I have been working with a file in Word 2000 for over 4
months, each time I access it I am updating it until it
now has/had approximately 84 pages. (Of course, I have
not been saving it to a spare disk...to easy.)
I opened the file yesterday and it is empty!!! I teach
Word so I am very familiar with what to do and what not
to do as far as saving the file as I go. I would not have
selected it all and pressed any key to delete all the
text. Is there a way to restore the file as it was before
it went blank using Windows XP? Assuming the area where
the file exists has not been overwriten. Any suggestions?
I have looked at the restore the entire disk from a
certain date, but I am looking for just restoring ONE
file, not the entire disk. Thanks in advance for your
help.

Just restore you file from your last back up. You do back up your
important files, don't you?

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[Malke]

Just restore you file from your last back up. You do back up your
important files, don't you?

I can't believe you didn't back this up somewhere. You can 1) check with
the experts in the MS Word newsgroup (see http://aumha.org/nntp.htm for
a list of MS newsgroups); 2) contact DriveSavers at www.drivesavers.com
for professional data recovery.

Malke

 

[J-McC]

I do data recovery and allways told young VCE students to Allways save
their assignments with incremental numbers eg "Geog-001.doc,
geog-002.doc etc" this way if they accidently deleted part of their
document they could allways go back and cut and paste the lost pages.
This saved the day for many people. I often fixed up their document
for them. Also I asked them how much does a decent 1.44mb floppy
cost, say $1.00 each, how much is your assigment worth?, they would
say dunno, I would say its got to be at least $1.00, Backit up to your
floppy each time.
Recently I recovered a deleted file for a Client by using Nortons to
search for a unique string in their file. It needs to be more than
just "and they put on " as this is a common expression. If you have
edited this file a bit there will be fragments of it on your disk. Do
not ever write anything to the disk after a disaster like this as
anything you add to the disk from that point on can overwrite the lost
information.
provided your info is NOT on NTFS partition I have a dos boot disk (a
win98se boot disk) with Nortons diskedit.exe on it and then by using
the options in it you search the disk for your unique phrase and every
time it finds it have a look around that spot and if most of your
document is there save it to a different partition as a file using the
incremental numbering scheme eg file-001.txt, file-002.txt etc. Once
you have finished scaning then look at these files that you have
saved. There will be some that are larger than others. Use word in
"recover any text" mode and try and reconstitute your file. it may
take a while but you will retrive most of it.
A second method is to look through your Temp directories (where most
of your temp file go) and see if there are any large files (80 pages @
3000 prer page =240k bytes) as xxxx.tmp files. Just do not write to
the partition where your lost data is as you will really loose it if
you write to tat partition.
Good luck.
Jim McC
(e-mail address removed)