opening recovered office files ?

[Johannes Hartmann]

hi !
I really need your help

a friend of mine (PC novice) had a hdd crash, i managed to recover the
files from his ntfs partition (using a commercial tool), all files seem to
be ok. He had his work done with Office 2003 (word and excel documents). I
don't have Office 2003, so i've downloaded the 2003 wordviewer to check if
the files are ok, but i can't display them correctly. The viewer asks to
choose an encoding but everything looks like crap. Does it have to do with
IRM ? what can I do ??

Thanks alot
Jo

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

It would appear that while you do have the files, they are corrupted..