File corruption

[Neil Grantham]

Hi folks,

A client of mine used a tool to 'clena up' his hard drive, and it did
more damage than good, resulting in a reload of his system from
recovery disk.
Prior to this, I managed to use a restorer2000 to find many of his
Word Docs that had gone missing.

After re-loading Office XP, or even 2000, any Doc he opens is just a
load of ascii characters interspersed with 'page break' or other such
breaks, but no discernable text at all

I have prepared him for the worst, but wondered if anyone has
successfully recovered from such a scenario. It looks to me as if
these files have become corrupt by his actions.

Thanks
Neil

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

After re-loading Office XP, or even 2000, any Doc he opens is just a
load of ascii characters interspersed with 'page break' or other such
breaks, but no discernable text at all

MAke sure that in the File Open dialog, files of type is NOT set to "Recover
text from any file"

Mike Williams - Office MVP http://www.mvps.org/faq/

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[Martin]

Hi folks,

A client of mine used a tool to 'clena up' his hard drive, and it did
more damage than good, resulting in a reload of his system from
recovery disk.
Prior to this, I managed to use a restorer2000 to find many of his
Word Docs that had gone missing.

After re-loading Office XP, or even 2000, any Doc he opens is just a
load of ascii characters interspersed with 'page break' or other such
breaks, but no discernable text at all

I have prepared him for the worst, but wondered if anyone has
successfully recovered from such a scenario. It looks to me as if
these files have become corrupt by his actions.

Thanks
Neil

What tool did he use?