Retrieve or recuperate a badly saved word file .

[Ramon Gavin]

After a hang up, I tried to save up a word file. I did it too fast. But it
got erased.Perhaps it was the PC or me who did it. Apparently it saved very
little K´s. How can I recuperate it? Search doesnt find it. If neccessary, a
friend can use MS-DOS.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

What do you mean by you "tried to save up"?

If it's just a few K, it's gone unless you have your system set to create
backup files. That's a setting *you* would have set, it's not a default
setting so you'd remember doing it. (I hope.)

 

[Ramon Gavin]

Thks JoAnn.
Excuse my language errors. I´m in/from Spain (Marbella).
Its a Word 2000, 500 page doc. I had no automatic back up configured.
Except, that ,as you know, after a hang up, Word 2000, offers the chance to
recuperate and save the file.
But I had several files simoultaneously opened and hang. I saved all of
them, clicking very fast. And this important file, was the only one saved
but... with only a few K´s (20?). A kind of wrong save, due to my clicking
speed (it seems to me). And it was saved in non readable carachters. I kept
working with the PC (naive boy...!).
My Docs file is 8 Mb, out of a 30 Mb. maximum memory capacity (besides the
S.W.). &0 Mb. total. Later, I searched through Windows, but got nothing else
than the quoted poor save. Despite that I had older versions been erased by
me (on purpose). I installed 2 retrieval, very average S.W. And nothing
found. I know -very probably-, it has been overwritten by Word. And lost my
500 page book.
What can I do? As I said, a friend can use MS-DOS.

What do you mean by you "tried to save up"?

If it's just a few K, it's gone unless you have your system set to create
backup files. That's a setting *you* would have set, it's not a default
setting so you'd remember doing it. (I hope.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

After a hang up, I tried to save up a word file. I did it too fast. But it
got erased.Perhaps it was the PC or me who did it. Apparently it saved
very
little K´s. How can I recuperate it? Search doesnt find it. If neccessary,
a
friend can use MS-DOS.

 

[coal_brona]

Hi,

If the file is erased then it can be restored using data recovery tool
such as Active@ undelete or Uneraser (DOS). This tools works really
great, thay never corrupted restored files. I'm pretty sure that will
help you.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/

 

[Ramon Gavin]

Great Coal-Brona!!!! You give me good news!
Currently, I don´t download or install anything, thinking it might erase the
deleted file.
I´m waiting to check, through MS-DOS (through a friend who is finding out
how to do it), that the file is there.
Will this unerase S.W.,also find a deleted .pst file?
Therefore, would you download the active-undelete S.W. that you recommend
me, right now, w.o. waiting for my friend´s help in MS DOS?
Does, even browsing increase the chances of erasing definitevely that
delerted file in Word?
You will teach me definitevely how this works...!!!
Thks so much.
P.S.

If I recuperate and you understand Spanish, I can send you what it is (a
500 recipes cookbook plus 150 pages with tricks).Tell me.
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