dvd+r and hard drive help

espresso

silkyuk9 wrote: »

its a microsoft Word file.

so i just go to the properties on the file and remove all the above wording and just put 116.doc and it will open?

Im work at present so cannot try it now.

If you know that it is a Word file, yes rename it as above as it should only have one file name extension.

silkyuk9

espresso wrote: »

If you know that it is a Word file, yes rename it as above as it should only have one file name extension.

im struggling

Ive right clicked the word file and gone into properties ive delited the file name and renamed it with .doc but it still opens the same as before.

macman

The file is possibly corrupt. Why don't you just buy a caddy and recover the files from the original hard drive? A cheap USB caddy costs less than a tenner on ebay. You are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

closed

how do you know that is a word file, or THE file you are looking for, it could be anything

as already suggested, if you no longer have the original pc, a usb caddy is the way forward, it would have been cheaper than isobuster

rules of backups, check them, do more than one, on different media

silkyuk9

closed wrote: »

how do you know that is a word file, or THE file you are looking for, it could be anything

as already suggested, if you no longer have the original pc, a usb caddy is the way forward, it would have been cheaper than isobuster

rules of backups, check them, do more than one, om different media

Well It must be a word file cause I made it. They are my kids cv's and some important notes I have made.

So how would a usb caddy solve the issue. All these files mp3 and jpegs are now on my desk top, ive extracted them all using isobuster.

All I need to do now is get the word files back to normal so I can read them

macman

Then the extraction process has corrupted the Word files (or the one you have tried to open). Is there the same issue with all the Word files, because the file naming appears to have gone haywire, with multiple suffixes?
Assuming that the original files on the old drive are OK, you simply copy them from the old drive to the new PC by means of the caddy. Which was what you shoud have done to start with rather than wasting £25.

silkyuk9

macman wrote: »

Then the extraction process has corrupted the Word files (or the one you have tried to open). Is there the same issue with all the Word files, because the file naming appears to have gone haywire, with multiple suffixes?
Assuming that the original files on the old drive are OK, you simply copy them from the old drive to the new PC by means of the caddy. Which was what you shoud have done to start with rather than wasting £25.

I understand that. The old hard drive is sat here its not in any pc. So I hopeful that they are ok on there. So basically how would I get them from the HD which isn't in any pc ay the moment?

macman

Put the old drive into a suitable USB caddy. PATA/IDE or SATA, depending on the type of drive. For a desktop drive you need a 3.5" caddy, for a laptop a 2.5" drive.
Plug caddy into a USB port on your new machine and it will be recognised as an external drive. Copy over the required files. That's it.
The old drive can then be used as the backup that you failed to have before.

silkyuk9

ok I think this is the drive (I have around 5 from different pc's)

Seagate
U Series 9
120 gig
model: ST3120025A
S/N 5JTOXR7E
Firmware 4.04

if not its this one

Hitachi
s/n RH3V896K
model HDP725016GLAT80

espresso

Caddy here