Hope someone can help,

The other half has spent most of today working on a Word file on a floppy (against my advice) on my laptop. Anyway she closed it and opened it in my desktop to print out and now the word doc is completey blank, it's not just lost todays changes but everything.

I know it's a long shot but is there anyway of retrieveing a version of the doc from before she shut it down? either from the floppy or the HDD (even though she never saved it there)?

Any help/advice appreciated on how to try and retrieve the data, the sooner the better so I can get my dinner.

Cheers

Steve

Have you tried looking at the document on the laptop again? If they have different versions of Windows and/or Office this sometimes happens.

Figment,

Cheers for that, but tried it already, both machines running 98se and Office 2000.

Anyone else out there with any ideas??

Cheers

Steve

Steve, had a friend ask me this a month or so ago. I did a search and managed to find a piece of software that specifically recovers data from floppy disk.

It damn well worked too.

Have a search on google, in the meantime I'll see if I've still got it.

-DV

http://www.globalshareware.com/Utili...or-Windows.htm

Daz/Dave,

Been away for a while so only just got your posts, thanks for that.

Dave re. the link, I've clicked on it but can't seem to download the free shareware, any ideas??

Thanks

Steve

http://download.com.com/3000-2248-10...ml?tag=lst-0-2

and use the download option not fast download

oops only recovers files under 10k :(

Try these

http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.ht...search=+Go%21+

http://download.com.com/3000-2248-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1

My mate has just recovered a similar floppy disk to you with something called Badcopy.It recovered all the files off the disk that Windows explorer couldn't even read.....
Don't forget the *cough* keygen *cough* though ;) lol

Good luck

Nick


[Edited by NickAdams - 6/17/2003 12:48:12 AM]

Dave,

Thanks for the additional links, but problem is now solved.

Picked up something called "Hex Workshop", from one of the guys at work. It took a bit of time as it was a case of going through the disc a sector at a time but all of her data is now back in Word.

Cheers

Steve