Help restoring a simple text file become undecipherable

[Hoover]

I was working in a simple text file (that is, a Notepad .txt file), say, 10 k in size. I made a save previously, say when the file was only 9 k in size. I did not saved since, then a computer crash made the whole file undecipherable.

 

The whole file shows full of [NUL] entries.

 

1. I tried CHKDSK. It did not find any errors.

 

2. I tried this: https://superuser.com/questions/223677/recovering-a-corrupted-txt-file

2nd option, with Recuva. It did not do the trick this time. What other possible solutions are out there?

 

Sure, I can't get back my 10 k of information, since I didn't save the last 1 k at all, but I hope there is a way to somehow get back my previous 9 k text.

[nukecad]

What text editor were you using? 

 

Is the file extension .txt, .rtf, .doc, .docx, or some other?

 

If you are lucky then in the same folder there will be a file with the same name but with an extension of .bak

This is a backup of the file.

 

If you rename this to change the .bak to the same as the corrupted file the it will open and you can see what it contains.

[Hoover]

More information: a simple text file = that is, a Notepad .txt file. Thank you. Not any back copies (.bak), I have to cook with what I have: the original file.