Does anyone have any ideas or has anyone seen anything at all like this?
Corrupted Word Documents - how to recover
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lolanerd71111
, Jan 26 2009 03:00 PM
#1
Posted 26 January 2009 - 03:00 PM
Does anyone have any ideas or has anyone seen anything at all like this?
#2
Posted 26 January 2009 - 06:04 PM
When using data recovery software there is no guarantee that you can get back all of the bits of the document.
All you're realistically doing when you delete a document is marking that area of the drive as being free so it can be overwritten by other data, program or whatever. The document is still there technically until something else overwrites it. All it needs is one fragment to be unrecoverable and as far as Word is concerned, the document will be garbage because it'll want all the bits.
If the user has no back-up of this document, there may not be a lot you can do about it and it's probably now lost for good.
All you're realistically doing when you delete a document is marking that area of the drive as being free so it can be overwritten by other data, program or whatever. The document is still there technically until something else overwrites it. All it needs is one fragment to be unrecoverable and as far as Word is concerned, the document will be garbage because it'll want all the bits.
If the user has no back-up of this document, there may not be a lot you can do about it and it's probably now lost for good.
#3
Posted 27 January 2009 - 08:42 AM
That was pretty much my thought as well - the only caveat is that we caught it as soon as it happened and we stopped activity on that computer and pulled it so that we could try and recover before any data had the potential of overwriting it. The biggest question I have really is how did this happen in the first place . Granted the target file was selected by mistake but there was not any confirmation message for delete. My thought is that it actually was copied to another file --- oh well - he was warned to save his data on the server - caveat emptor I guess.
Thanks for responding.
Thanks for responding.
#4
Posted 27 January 2009 - 04:06 PM
It is possible to set Windows up not to a) use the Recycle Bin at all, and b) Not prompt when the Recycle Bin is being used. Likewise, holding down Shift+Delete bypasses the Recycle Bin entirely, though you normally get a prompt regardless of how the Recycle Bin's been told to work.
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