help - lost a document

chocolateteddy

I was working on a word document that was saved on a memory stick. I had finished adding to it so clicked save but an error message came up and said couldn't save to unknown something or other, didn't think much of it and thought I would 'save as' This happened the other day and no problem but then it flashed up that it was rescuing documnet then would close it. Before I could do anything it disappeared. It is no longer on my memory stick Help has it rescued it to a particular part of my computer? or have I lost it forever?

I suspect my memory stick which is quite old is dying I know you will say what about a backup well 99% of everything on the memory stick is backed up elsewhere this is work I started yesterday and runs to 10 pages Ugh

Anyone got any helpful suggestions please

NiftyDigits

Scan the USB thumb drive with Recuva and if no go, the same with the HDD to a separate newly created folder.

chocolateteddy

Thanks downloaded it and scanned the usb drive it found it but it was in red said it was unrecoverable tried to recover it and it saved but when I opened it it was unreadable gibberish is the best way to describe it
This is what I got
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ÄH#Kÿ²Ýý‘ä-ßÎùçòw§ÜòþKE¼¶´ð¿Âï]j:¶—<÷ž4ðô!¬öIöAõÙ<?âÈô´µž;)ü¿Çö·‡d‑_4‰!ÿÇ­|/²¼>‑ðŸˆ/­!/d²Ñ£Ò¼
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What is the HDD in english please, I did scan all files on computer (is that what you meant) but the same thing happened

NiftyDigits

Just jumping in the shower, but Google may be able to help you in this case.

Especially here

Good luck

chocolateteddy

Thanks that's where I'm now going too so will investigate further later

NiftyDigits

Try the second link first.

macman

chocolateteddy wrote: »

Thanks downloaded it and scanned the usb drive it found it but it was in red said it was unrecoverable tried to recover it and it saved but when I opened it it was unreadable gibberish is the best way to describe it
This is what I got
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ÄH#Kÿ²Ýý‘ä-ßÎùçòw§ÜòþKE¼¶´ð¿Âï]j:¶—<÷ž4ðô!¬öIöAõÙ<?âÈô´µž;)ü¿Çö·‡d‑_4‰!ÿÇ!|/²¼>‑ðŸˆ/!!/d²Ñ£Ò¼
¢O!¥ê‑;Ô–ï~°‘ùŽŸÙz]¼o¨Lñ¾Ï;b|Ÿ'—5io/n<;¥k—·!

What is the HDD in english please, I did scan all files on computer (is that what you meant) but the same thing happened

Hard Disk Drive-the drive on your PC.
If you used 'Save As', then it will have been saved under a different file name to the original, so do a wildcard search under .doc

sickofusernames

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316951

Few suggestions in here...

I always used to find unsaved word docs searching the .tmp suffix and it worked for me once.

chocolateteddy

How do I d a wildcard search under .doc and .tmp

I am not totally computer illiterate but nearly :-)

If I try and open the document I recovered under Recuva I get the message
Word cannot start the converter mswrd632 ???

john539

chocolateteddy wrote: »

How do I d a wildcard search under .doc and .tmp

I am not totally computer illiterate but nearly :-)

If I try and open the document I recovered under Recuva I get the message
Word cannot start the converter mswrd632 ???

Use * for wildcard

*.doc
*.tmp

chocolateteddy

I have managed to save and open a document with last nights date and time on it so only lost this mornings work. Still trying with that one!!