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Old July 28th, 2007, 06:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Graham Mayor
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Default Disk failure, need to recover lost doc

The document is corrupt. You cannot somehow magic the missing data back into
existence.

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Gandor wrote:
I was writing in a word document that I had saved in a USB memory. I
had
nothing saved at the hard drive, stupidly me. Suddenly it crashed and
the
document weren't to be found on the USB memory stick. Later on I
found a
rescue saved txt.file on my harddrive. I tried to read it both in
Word,
notepad and wordpad, but I could just read some parts of the text.

It looks like this "????????????????????????????? small text
part????????????e???????
################################################## ###
text part????????????????????????????????? longer text
part?????????????
me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????
and so on ################################################## ###
Pleace,help
me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????"

Can I somehow read/translate the ?-marks in the between.