Hi,
I have an excel file that was very important, but I accidentally formatted my C drive....
So I ran Recuva, and it came up, but the pieces were as following:
name.xlsx
name_1.xlsx
name_2.xlsx
...
name_7.xlsx
And no combination of appending these together, etc, yielded a functional excel file
Any help on how to use these would be great Ill attach them if needed.
Did you try?
- Recuva deep scan > Takes longer, but may find files the regular scan doesn't find.
- Scan all .xlsx files > Files sometimes have part or all of the file name(s) truncated or altered. (Might be a different name)
- Another undelete program > Sometimes, one program can recover a file that another cannot
- Opening in a different program > Sometimes, Open Office or similar, may be able to open a file format that MS word cannot. Especially after corruption.
- Save recovered files to a flash drive. Upload to http://www.zamzar.com so you can convert it to .xls or other text formats. (May help read/recover content)
1. Yes, this came from a deep scan
2. Well I found the exact name I Was looking for, but it is broken up
3. Cant find another free one, be great if you could refer me to one
4. Yep :/ Tried that
5. It already is xlsx....
xlsx is similar to docx if i'm not mistaken, no?
What happens if you try opening with an alternative program, such as OpenOffice, LibreOffice or even Google Docs?
Sure! Here are a few to try:
Test Disk > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Undelete 360 > http://www.snapfiles.com/get/undelete360.html
Restoration > http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
Update us to let us know if they helped.
* Mentioned #5, simply because if the file is already in xlsx, then if it is possible to convert to it from xlsx to xml, or some other format, might make recovering the data content easier... Possibly... After which you could convert it back by re-uploading the converted content, & reconverting it to the original format.
But I would try one of the data recovery programs above first, to see what they do. Always recover to another drive (even a flash drive works) so you don't overwrite data that you are trying to recover.
If you formatted the drive, the files may be lost. That is always a possibility.
Ok, thanks for the help I will try the other recovery programs, and may I ask which file you want me to open in another document program? There are 8 files...
P.S. xlsx is Excel format (2007 beyond I think)
Try running Recuva normal scan with Scan fior Non-Deleted Files checked (in Advanced Mode). You may be lucky.
Are the files with the _1, _2 etc appended how Recuva recovered them, or did they have those names on the deep scan list? If Recuva recovers multiple files with the same name to the same folder it appends the _1 etc. If Recuva did do the appending, just try to open the recovered files individually. Multiple file names are usually the result of edits etc. Check the size of the files with what you think the original size was.
Recuva in deep scan can only find the first extent of a fragmented file, as the extent info is not accessible. The first extent will have the file signature but the others won't so won't be recognisable and won't be listed. (I speak, as ever, in general terms.)