Word recovery??

[Bwallace]

Hi,

Finally I've found a site that might be able to help with my problem.

I've recently had my D drive mistakenly formated by a friend.
Its an 11 gig drive and was quick formated and the process stopped after a miniute or so.
I've run Getbackdata and seem to have recovered a lot of the files, however there are several word documents that I'm unable to open in word.
Some documents have recovered fully but the larger ones remain scrambled. They are there in recovery and seem to be complete but unreadable.

I've been reading through your threads and am interested in this 'format recovery app'.

What's your advice on this and what software is suitable do you think.


And thanks very much for your help with this,

Harddrive: Seagate 20 gig, 7200rpm. IDE


Paul

[admin]

Hi,

Download and try Recover My files from www.recovermyfiles.com, or you can use this direct download link: http://download.getdata.com/RecoverMyFiles-Setup.exe

Install and run the program on your C: drive. In the first Wizard window you will see the "Complete Format Recover" option. Select this, and click NEXT.

In the Drive Selection window, you should see your problem drive listed as a "physical" drive - you will be able to tell which one it is by the size. Select it and click NEXT.

In the File Type Selection Window, you will notice that there are already some default file types selected (ms word is included). Use only these default selected file types and start the search.

Recover My Files will scan your drive and at the end of the search try and rebuild the old file system.

Look both in "File View" (not original file names) and "Folder View" (original file name and folder structure) of the results screen for your missing files. The results found in these two different views are found with different search methods, so it is worth checking both.

You should be able to click on the files found and preview the contents of the Word documents in the preview window of the results screen. If you cannot see the text, then it means the documents have been overwritten and destroyed.

In some situations you will be able to preview the text, but when you try and open the Word document with MS Word it will stay that it is corrupt. In this case, change the extension to txt and open it with notepad and copy and paste the text out of the file by hand into a new word document. You may also find that Explorer View, www.explorerview.com is very useful for previewing files.

Good luck.