anything out there that can fix corrupt .doc files?

[Nvidiaguy07]

One of my group members lost all of her work recently. She had her file saved on a flash drive, and now when she goes to open it, it looks like this:

⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪ԁᣖĄ Ą Ą Ą Ą Ą 鐇Ɉ혈Fꈃ臾㼚稧怵� 븆

anyway to recover the text from inside the doc? its a 97-2003 file

 

[amdhunter]

You sure she didn't create aliases/shortcuts to the files, instead of copying the files themselves? I've seen that happen, and you get the exact kind of random text like that.

 

[tcsenter]

There may be an older deleted or replaced copy of the document still on the drive that might be recovered by Recuva or similar utility.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

It's possible the header data got corrupted. She can try to save the file as an RTF then reopen it in Word and save it as a DOC file again. That should restore the header and retain the formatting in the process.