Hi,
I have used Recuva, scanned my computer and successfully found the accidentally deleted word files.
On the screen within Recuva which allows files to be selected, the required files have a green blob, give a Size of ?162 bytes? and State of ?excellent?, with Comment saying ?No overwritten clusters detected?.
However when I try to recover the files, despite which drive I select, the recovered files have a size of only 1 KB. Although the recovery process seemed to work (message appearing saying files were recovered in 0.04 secs etc), the files do not load correctly with an error message appearing in word saying 'Word cannot start the converter mswrd632'. After clicking ok a few times, a word document appears with a single line of rubbish. I have searched what the message code means and this appears to want the original XP disc. I have inserted this but it does not seem to help.
I would be really grateful for any help please.
Thanks.