had to recover some excel 2010 files. recuva said they were in excellent condition with no overwrites and green icon. recovered to different drive. couldn't open them - excel said wrong format or corrupt. what gives or better how to i open the files.
Excellent means that no clusters have been overwritten. The contents of the clusters could be anything, Recuva does not make any judgement on the veracity of the data. What has been recovered is what is on the disk, no more or less.
I'm not going to open an unknown excel file, and not everyone has Office, so please post screen shots only.