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| Hey everyone I need some help recovering a number of corrupt Word and Excel documents. The hard drive wouldn't boot and the file system was corrupt (Windows 2000 SP4) so I made the drive a slave to the main drive and use EasyRecovery pro to salvage all the documents. The documents show up as a Word (and Excel) document but when opening them it says unrecognizable format. It's the same error you get when trying to convert Word Perfect to Word sometimes. This ps has Windows 2000SP4 and OfficeXP, some documents are fine and others are corrupt? I tried an app called CrossFingers and it says the Word documents are not Word documents. If anyone knows of an app or a way to salvage the corrupts files I would be grateful. Thanks.
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| Do you ahve any idea what the file extensions are currently?
If they are the .wpd or .doc that word normally associates with then Word SHOULD have no problem opening them, or at least it should be able to convert them to something recognizable.
Another thing i might try is to see if wordpad will open them. If not then, sorry to say, your files might be lost.
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| surely you MNO did a search on good old Google? Here's the first thing to come up when searching for "fix corrupt documents":
http://www.repair.word-file.com
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| Mno---
I got that error too sometimes with "repaired" Word documents on a floppy which got bad sectors. My guess is that the recovery program you used was responsible for the corruption of those files, but I can't say for sure as I've never used it.
I do wonder if it was necessary to run it, as a FIXMBR through the Recovery Console might've at least given you access to backup your files somewhere else. Before I had a second 120GB hard drive for backup purposes, my primary 120gigger got corrupted once and I was banging my head against the wall like a nutcase, but after some reading around I tried FIXMBR and it was back up and running.
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| Another recovery option is to use is that MSKB article about restoring a corrupted registry. It basically repairs XP's registry to the state it was in at the original install (atleast in my experience it did). I was able to get in there and save the files I needed, then reinstall or Ghost back over it. I wouldn't recommend continuing running with that registry in there, but it let me boot back in after that old hotfix fiasco.
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| I was the first to post here bout that darn fiasco causing POS. I felt bad for some time after that
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