Word files encoding

[Luartz]

Hello,

 

After a big virus that deleted all my files, I used Recuva to recover them. The program recovered my files but when I want to open them (I'm talking about Word Documents), a message appears saying:

 

Select the encoding that makes your document readable.

Text encoding: Windows (default) / MS-DOS / Other encoding

 

Whichever one I select, the content of the document remains unreadable (sequences of weird symbols)

 

Does someone know how I can read my files ?

 

Thank you

[plotchick]

oh thank goodness! I was so afraid it was just that my files were toast.

 

Please someone tell us that there's just a slight problem recovering files but the files themselves should be ok... a workaround would be great!