New memory stick needs formatting

longwalks1

Thanks everyone, I used the program 'EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard 8.6' free edition as have managed to extract/save/copy the important files to my laptop, and the majority are saved as either DOCX or XLS files (word and excel I'm guessing), and the files sizes are all what they should be (as they were before the crash) I just cant open any of them? Any ideas please?

Forgot to say, they automatically restored/saved into a folder called FAT32, then the folders within that folder were named as normal before the crash

enfield_freddy

yup , you will have to rename the extensions correctly to view them


not on a windows box at the moment , go to file explorer , VIEW , show file name extension , then right click and rename the extension to its correct on


IE. fred.docx rename to fred.jpg , if that was its original type

longwalks1

enfield_freddy wrote: »

yup , you will have to rename the extensions correctly to view them


not on a windows box at the moment , go to file explorer , VIEW , show file name extension , then right click and rename the extension to its correct on


IE. fred.docx rename to fred.jpg , if that was its original type

Sorry freddy you lost me with the first part, the file explorer and VIEW bit?

I can right click on the file when i go to 'my computer', documents etc but no option of renaming the file type

enfield_freddy

file explorer , top menu , view , then tick show file extensions , although it looks like you might have this already , as tou can see they are docx etc?


right click and rename after the . (full stop)

longwalks1

sorry mate struggling with the 'file explorer' bit, unsure of what it is/where to open it? I can see in my folder within a folder, a list of the files its recovered/saved and its listed with following details in list form:

Name, date modified, type, size

Apologies, I'm not great on a PC

enfield_freddy

go into the directory showing the saved files , they will be in a list


does,nt matter if its a list or more detailed like mine


clearer here http://www.theterminalhut.com/public/re.jpg


picci


click on rename and change the last half of it to what it should be

longwalks1

found it, and renamed an excel file as 'britishboy.xls' as it would normally appear, opened it with excel and it showed an error message:

Excel found unreadable content in 'britishboy.xls'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the content of the workbook, click 'yes'.

I click 'yes', then nothing. Excel stays a blank sheet and still titled 'book 1' as if you'd just opened excel

enfield_freddy

sorry , at least you can rename them now , I suggest taking a copy of them before you open them , as excel might damage them , however in previous attempts at recovering files I have found the recovered files to be corrupt ,


do a backup of the files before continuing

Jeffery1679

[FONT=&quot]Your memory disk is asking to format is because its file system is turned to RAW. Formatting of your hard drive is only a way to convert its file system from RAW to FAT32 or NTFS and probably fix the not formatted error, but before you formatted it, get the important files from the HARD drive by a third-party tool such as Free Any Data Recovery. ([/FONT][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]any-data-recovery.com[/FONT])
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enfield_freddy

Jeffery1679 wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]Your memory disk is asking to format is because its file system is turned to RAW. Formatting of your hard drive is only a way to convert its file system from RAW to FAT32 or NTFS and probably fix the not formatted error, but before you formatted it, get the important files from the HARD drive by a third-party tool such as Free Any Data Recovery. ([/FONT][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]any-data-recovery.com[/FONT])
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Formatting of your hard drive is only a way to convert its file system from RAW to FAT32 or NTFS and probably fix the not formatted error,


gosh I followed your instructions and formatted my hard drive ,. however the programme you suggest (Free Any Data Recovery. ([FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]any-data-recovery.com[/FONT])[/FONT]


is struggling to recover 89 gig of windows files and data ,


what do you suggest now?
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