Recover corrupted text

[ms]

I used Restoration to recover a plain text file from the Recycle Bin.

About 50% of the text is corrupted in the form:
²ÕàË–*”ÿ€û

Can this text be salvaged?

Mike Sa

 

[Al Klein]

I used Restoration to recover a plain text file from the Recycle Bin.

About 50% of the text is corrupted in the form:
²Õà?Ë–* ”ÿ€û

Can this text be salvaged?

It's not so much that the text is corrupted, but that the file links
are. What you're looking at is most likely part of another deleted
file. Delete the "corrupted" parts and fill in what's missing by
hand.

Restoring a deleted file is, at best, a chancy thing. If you've
written anything to that drive since the file was deleted it gets more
chancy. If you've rebooted (or turned the computer off) since the
file was deleted, you're lucky to have restored even 50%.

Is the missing text still on the drive? Maybe, but not in the links
for that file name. Try restoring other deleted files and see if the
text from that one is part of one of them, although the odds of that
aren't really good.

 

[socrtwo]

Try looking for words that are unique to the missing part of the file
with a tool like Disk Investigator
(http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html) which can search the raw
data on the drive. It's possible the text is still there from another
temporary version of the file. Disk Investigator can let you find it
and then string several pieces togethor in one new text file.

How to use the program:

1.Do a search by clicking the search button the lower right corner and
keep the view in the default "Disk" mode.

2.Search the whole Disk (It might take an hour, but if you are find ing
too many examples stop the search and try to find words more unique to
your file.

3. Once you have found some suspect clusters with good text, select
them by clicking on the "Located Item Button." This will open the
cluster with your text.

4. Click "Add this cluster to memory which I think will keep a running
total on the clipboard, or Save it to Disk.

 

[ms]

It's not so much that the text is corrupted, but that the file links
are. What you're looking at is most likely part of another deleted
file. Delete the "corrupted" parts and fill in what's missing by
hand.

Restoring a deleted file is, at best, a chancy thing. If you've
written anything to that drive since the file was deleted it gets more
chancy. If you've rebooted (or turned the computer off) since the
file was deleted, you're lucky to have restored even 50%.

Is the missing text still on the drive? Maybe, but not in the links
for that file name. Try restoring other deleted files and see if the
text from that one is part of one of them, although the odds of that
aren't really good.

Thanks, Al. Your description tallys with what I'm finding in the salvage operation.

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

Try looking for words that are unique to the missing part of the file
with a tool like Disk Investigator
(http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html) which can search the raw
data on the drive. It's possible the text is still there from another
temporary version of the file. Disk Investigator can let you find it
and then string several pieces togethor in one new text file.

How to use the program:

1.Do a search by clicking the search button the lower right corner and
keep the view in the default "Disk" mode.

2.Search the whole Disk (It might take an hour, but if you are find ing
too many examples stop the search and try to find words more unique to
your file.

3. Once you have found some suspect clusters with good text, select
them by clicking on the "Located Item Button." This will open the
cluster with your text.

4. Click "Add this cluster to memory which I think will keep a running
total on the clipboard, or Save it to Disk.

Thanks for the info. I will try Disk Investigator, K Solway has some good utilities.

Mike Sa