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Title: Recovering corrupts MS Word/Excel Files
Post by: rustyeddy on March 17, 2009, 11:59:45 PM
   Buffalo Terastation Live 2TB
PC Network with 4 Vista machines and 2 windows XP.
Don't have the firmware version Handy.

Does anybody know of any way to recover corrupted MS-Word or Excel documents?

I had a disk drive die on me. Turns out it was drive 1, I removed drive 1, restarted the Terastation, as per Tech supports advice. The station came up fine, looked like all files were ok.  The entire NAS is backed at ibackup.com.

About a month later, I went to retrive one of the MS word files. It turned out to be corrupted, the file displayed all squares.  I then noticed the modification date was the same date the NAS failed. Even though the document had not been modified at least one or two months prior to that.  I had not notice in time, the backup system had noticed the files had changed and backed up/overwrote some good files with corrupt files.  I now no longer have a backup of the good files.

Does anybody know of any way to recover corrupted MS-Word or Excel documents?

Any and all help is appreciated!
Title: Re: Recovering corrupts MS Word/Excel Files
Post by: Kameran on March 18, 2009, 07:48:27 PM
   Sorry that happend, no way of really repairing those corrupted files.
Title: Re: Recovering corrupts MS Word/Excel Files
Post by: rustyeddy on March 19, 2009, 10:13:18 AM
   I suspected that was the answer :(, thanks for the reply all the same.
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