Basically my computer crashed and i retrieved all files such as jpeg photos and all word processing documents. i was able to restore most of the pics with minimum corrupt files but when i try to restore and open the word processing files they show all sorts of sysmbols and not the actual text. i tried to open from the different list of programs but none work. All the documents were done in either word, excel, microsoft office or microsoft works. how can i convert back or are they all lost?
i recovered lost data files such as excel and office documents but not english when i try to open and restore?
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Wrenched
March 16, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Try using a data recovery program.
Data Doctor FAT + NTFS (DataDoctor.Org) and IOLO’s SystemMechanic 7.0 (iolo.com) are good suggestions.
If you didn’t WIPE the drive they will recover most of your files without a lot of work.
Good luck to you on that…
JT_8
March 16, 2010 at 11:09 pm
They are lost. Once it gets corrupted consumer available software is not going to be able to repair those damaged files. At least you got most of your photos.