Please help me, In a right state!

somyagilberts

I think you can get back from hard disk.For this you have to fix your hard disk on a another computer and check your data.You can also take help from an expert.

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https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3006496

is the file extension correct, have you tried search everything


unless you provide further details, it's impossible to help. Try looking on your other machines if you still have them and they had the data on previously

NiftyDigits

indierocker85 wrote: »

One of my excel sheets, a profit and loss sheet for my business basically, has been "recovered" by the recovery software's, however it won't open in Excel, it simply states that the file extension is incorrect or the file is corrupt.

Part of the issue here is that you are not replying to questions put to you. Understandable, as there are many suggestions being put to you.
But you need to answer them, before ploughing forward and making things worse.

Do not install anything more to the hard drive.

Where are you saving the output of the recovery? Which recovery software are you using? Did you install said software on the hard drive?
What size is your current install of Vista?

closed

The tools suggested so far are tiny (a few MB) in comparison to a vista install, or a typical hard disk, the odds of them overwriting anything important, that hasn't been overwritten by vista, service packs, pagefile, etc whilst possible, are slim.

It's still unclear what the op did, the files may still be there under a different profile, in backups, in shadow copies, we can only speculate.

Problems like this invariably end up in the local shop

Backbiter

The files should be there, but they are obviously hidden in some part of the harddrive.
It appears that the OP has not yet used the free version of RECUVA to perform a deep scan.
It appears he has not yet tried to scan his computer using the software I suggested, Glary Undelete, which found many gigabytes of data on my PC after a weird error daleted the contents of the my documents folder.

OP - try not to panic, just try these two suggestions, and report back.

Just because you found an unrecoverable version of one Excel file doesn't mean everything is lost. It could just be an old temporary version of the file that was no use to you anyway, not the one you are looking to restore.

NiftyDigits

closed wrote: »

The tools suggested so far are tiny (a few MB) in comparison to a vista install, or a typical hard disk, the odds of them overwriting anything important, that hasn't been overwritten by vista, service packs, pagefile, etc whilst possible, are slim.

It's still unclear what the op did, the files may still be there under a different profile, in backups, in shadow copies, we can only speculate.

Problems like this invariably end up in the local shop

Be that as it may, it is better that nothing more is written to the hard drive, including the recovery.

[Deleted User]

oh dear. I've worked in IT for 20+ years and would never even attempt something like an upgrade unless I knew I had a backup. Too late now mind. Next time, backup to google drive (cloud storage) as well.

Rules for doing IT work for customers:-

1. Take a backup.
2. Take another backup.
3. Take another backup.
4. Take your coat off.

securityguy

[quote=[Deleted User];65541173]oh dear. I've worked in IT for 20+ years and would never even attempt something like an upgrade unless I knew I had a backup. Too late now mind. Next time, backup to google drive (cloud storage) as well.

Rules for doing IT work for customers:-

1. Take a backup.
2. Take another backup.
3. Take another backup.
4. Take your coat off.[/QUOTE]

Backup in enterprise settings is hard: you've got potentially petabytes to worry about, and just don't have the ability to take a complete consistent copy without a lot of voodoo. So you're reliant on various types of RAID (for hardware failures) and snapshots (for other failures), plus in database land all the complexity of journalling. But for home users? How hard can it be? Buy a USB drive for fifty quid, plug it in, let it run overnight (30MB/sec = 100GB/hour = 2.4TB/day), there's your backup. How hard can that be? But apparently, people would rather lose their data than spend fifty quid.

spud17

securityguy wrote: »

........... How hard can that be? But apparently, people would rather lose their data than spend fifty quid.

Blimey! So true.
People are happy to spend nearly that per month on a phone contract, often just to look 'cool' with the latest model.

Knarf44

securityguy wrote: »

Backup in enterprise settings is hard: you've got potentially petabytes to worry about, and just don't have the ability to take a complete consistent copy without a lot of voodoo. So you're reliant on various types of RAID (for hardware failures) and snapshots (for other failures), plus in database land all the complexity of journalling. But for home users? How hard can it be? Buy a USB drive for fifty quid, plug it in, let it run overnight (30MB/sec = 100GB/hour = 2.4TB/day), there's your backup. How hard can that be? But apparently, people would rather lose their data than spend fifty quid.

I don't think it's a case of not wanting to spend £50 but more a case of ignorance and a complete lack of interest by people in educating themselves, perhaps through laziness or perhaps through convincing themselves it's far too technical to even try to understand. Instead they either look for a program they can download that will magically fix all their computer problems or they end up spending a lot of money unnecessarily with high street "experts" .

There is nothing technical or difficult involved in learning to back up a home computer or laptop, change a hard drive, upgrade memory or reinstall operating systems. All it takes is a "willingness" to sit and learn.

In the meantime the problem with coming on this forum for advice is that everybody and their uncle will offer you a solution to your problem. By educating yourself just a little you can begin to see through the fog and then focus on those contributors who obviously have the widest experience in dealing with techie problems. Once identified, follow the advice, answer the questions and give feedback when asked. Don't start going off at tangents by doing things that haven't been suggested and consequently delaying potential solutions or contributors will stop wasting their time trying to help you.