Repairing corrupt Office files after recovering from recycle bin

[chrissyd]

Hi there, I have recovered 100+ accidentally deleted files (Excel, Word,
PowerPoint, Adobe, jpeg, tiff, gif, etc.) using recuva.com but some have been
corrupted and won't open.

I've read in other threads about using the Office 'Detect and Repair'
function - and also about downloading free software that can repair damaged
files. My questions are these:

- does the Office function or free software try to fix all files on the hard
drive and, therefore, affect the hard drive (my files are still on a
speedstick and a CD);
- are these utilties any good with 'undeleted' files - or do I just have to
accept that I've lost them?

Thanks, chrissyd.

 

[chrissyd]

P.S. I'm running Vista home premium/Office 2007 and files were recovered from
a PC on XP/Office 2003 (and I'm likely to be changing Office 2007 to 2003
when the free trial expires).

 

[DL]

Office Detect/Repair has no impact on data files, niether does sys restore
If they were recovered after being deleted from the recycle bin then likely
the corrupt files are lost.
And presumably you have no data backups.

 

[chrissyd]

Long story, but... I had 2 back ups of the hard drive of an old/broken PC and
overwrote one back up with another - and lost the files in the process.
Sadly, the CD with the missing files was formatted in the process and can't
find the files on it - so had to go back to the old/broken PC. Hey ho.
That'll teach me. :-(

 

[DL]

Cest la vie

Long story, but... I had 2 back ups of the hard drive of an old/broken PC
and
overwrote one back up with another - and lost the files in the process.
Sadly, the CD with the missing files was formatted in the process and
can't
find the files on it - so had to go back to the old/broken PC. Hey ho.
That'll teach me. :-(