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Windows 7 text file

Started by TheNamesAbe , Feb 07 2010 09:26 AM

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TheNamesAbe

Posted 07 February 2010 - 09:26 AM

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Hi, I recently put windows 7 on my computer and I forgot to trasfer over some text files, so, I used tune up utilities 2010 to restore the files, but now a few of the files work and some of them have a bunch of foreign letters. From the character maps and such. Here's and example:

n)ƒw¤† ôVI/á¸ÎP6a!Ç²¨S…Z…#e5Ì²l¹>¿Š+Ã«Ž‡È…QïL±EÒUøûà¬”ÿ!ˆƒÞÞèòPÛÈÁÚç·ïåFË(À1IR®E‰ÉCŒBBÕ®ævš=NØ
„?Ùéúxcìm/t¼¼˜“°6ö4‘eØCbàáKÆó$
ð£°©øz,‚Ž;‡7X9[ôÔãüyŸõc-Õ¾a¬M6·Š›g{±sÿð:ÆSÆgÏÉÒ©³˜=ÑJÖ‘«¥;Äç!Ýœ=æGôTÓ

I'm wondering if it's possible to change this back into regular text. Ty.

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Neil Jones

Posted 07 February 2010 - 03:50 PM

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It isn't.
I presume you've done what's called File Recovery on the drive, which is an attempt to recover what you've deleted?
These utilities aren't perfect. The files have been partly overwritten by your Windows 7. They will now be pretty much unrecoverable. Hope they weren't too important.