Cannot open restored word doc

[Richard]

I have a hard drive that was formatted in error. Software was used to
retreive all of the Word and Excel files .
I have all the files on CD and they look fine, they have the dates, names,
and sizes.
When I try to open a Word file in Office 2003 I get
Select the encoding that makes your document readable, I have options of
Windows default, ms-dos and other encoding. Is it possible on the original
install when I was using Word and Word, I was using a different save as
feature I may be missing? Any thoughts would be great.... This is the exact
same problem with about 200 word docs and excel files. I have no problem
with pdfs and gif,s and other file programs.

 

[Terry Farrell]

I take it that you have copied these files to your HDD before trying to open
them?

As a last desperate attempt to rescue the documents, try using the Recover
Text from any File option (in The File, Open dialog). If that doesn't work,
it means the documents are corrupt - probably during the write to CDR
activity.

 

[Richard]

Thank you for the reply.. what is strange.. I can open documents from 2004
but it appears there was some change in 2005 on that will not open. I will
try the recover text. I did copy these to a hard drive of the machine that
did the restore program as well, and there they would not open either. You
think they may have become corupt on the copy to the CD? I still have them

 

[Richard]

I do not see the "recover text from any" option.. where is it?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In the File Open dialog, click the arrow in the "Files of type" box.

 

[Terry Farrell]

I'm baffled by 2004 and 2005. What is this referring to?

Terry

 

[Richard]

Hi Terry, What I mean is I can open some doc files saved in 2004 but cannot
open doc files opened in 2005. Not sure why... wonder if I made a change is
some settings.

 

[Terry Farrell]

The only explanation must be that they became corrupted during the burn
process. I'll extract a couple of them from the slaved HDD and test them. If
they are OK, extract the remainder too.

Terry

 

[Terry Farrell]

That should have said, "I'd extract...".

Terry

The only explanation must be that they became corrupted during the burn
process. I'll extract a couple of them from the slaved HDD and test them.
If they are OK, extract the remainder too.

Terry

 

[socrtwo]

Terry,

I found that a text extractor like TextExtract
(http://www.ultima-thule.co.uk/) will sometimes give you good text when
the Recover
Text from any File option says the file is too corrupt to recover
anything...