Can't Fix Corrupted Document

[Tom]

Hi,

I was working on a document on one of my school's computers which I believe
was running Office (MS Word) 2k3. I saved it to my zip drive only to
discover (upon opening it on a different computer in the same computer lab)
that the data was corrupt and unreadable.

I have never had this happen before, even when saving other documents in
this fashion. I've tried both the recovery/repair solutions Word suggests
as well as just about every shareware recovery program in existence, but
nothing fixes the file or even returns the text. Every time I run one of
the programs, it either stops responding or just claims the repair process
failed, and I'm back to square one.

I''m pretty much out of solutions at this point, so I was hoping someone
here might have something new I could try.

Thanks in advance,
Tom

 

[Terry Farrell]

Tom

Bad news. You should NEVER save a document directly to any type of removable
media. You should always save to the local hard disk drive and then COPY the
document to the REM media. I am almost certain other than opening the
corrupt document in a text editor (Notepad or similar) to see if you it is
possible to rescue some of the text that you will not have much luck
rescuing the document.

 

[aalaan]

Never save directly to a zip drive or any other removable media. Always save
to the built-in hard disk and then copy under Explorer to the required
removable media.