after my mac crashed with my hard drive plugged in i found half the files missing, using recuva i was able to see them but unfortunately the files had been overwritten, never the less i tried to recover the file but was unable to open it due to corruption. But when i tried to repair it using words open and repair tool it said there was no content to the file but i can clearly see its size is 36 kb, so whats the 36 kb if the files empty, is there another way to access it
I don't know the specifics of your case (and even less about Macs) but Recuva will return whatever data is in the clusters that held, or previously held, the file's data. So if the file is overwritten, as you say it is, then Recuva will return whatever is in those clusters, even though it is rubbish to the user (and rubbish to Word as well).
ah that makes more sense, thanks anyway seems ill have to remake it
36 kb sounds more like you recovered a recent document link. You saw file.doc but really it was file.doc.lnk
Make sure your Windows Explorer settings are set to show file extensions
See here (should be relatively same XP-Win8)
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10570-file-extensions-hide-show.html
double checked and file extension is a docx file so unfortunately no way of recovery, hadn't considered checking file ending tho
double checked and file extension is a docx file so unfortunately no way of recovery, hadn't considered checking file ending tho
So you have windows set to show extentions?
yes and it shows it to be a docx file