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Can I recover an unsaved Word Document after a "Blue Screen" crash?

Asked by: eri900

My computer crashed in the middle of a major presentation. Auto recover was not turned on.

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2009-02-13 at 11:40:36ID24142203
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Windows 3.x Operating System

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Disaster Recovery

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Answers

 

by: dstewartjrPosted on 2009-02-13 at 11:45:05ID: 23636494

Did you go over the steps here?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827099

 

by: eri900Posted on 2009-02-13 at 12:16:15ID: 23636876

I have gone through all of the steps listed in the link above.  No Luck. Any suggestions?

 

by: dstewartjrPosted on 2009-02-13 at 12:23:42ID: 23636948

I'm afraid not, I havent seen any other things to try that arent in that KB. I'll ask another EE expert to take a look and he should be by shortly.

 

by: eri900Posted on 2009-02-13 at 12:25:30ID: 23636965

I thought XP had some sort of auto-save function??? Outside of any particular application...

 

by: dstewartjrPosted on 2009-02-13 at 12:32:42ID: 23637027

 

by: MightySWPosted on 2009-02-13 at 12:38:01ID: 23637078

No, XP has system restore.  If you NEVER saved that document then that document never existed.  You can try a few uiliities that can scan your HD for that tmp word doc.

They take a while, but quite often they are worth it as they will recover data that was presumed lost.

Data Recovery Tools:

Free:
PC Inspector      http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Restoration      http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html              
Active Undelete      http://www.snapfiles.com/get/activeundelete.html
Flash Recovery      http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecoverontracky.html
TestDisk & utilities      http://www.cgsecurity.org

Paid:
GetDataBack      http://www.runtime.org/      
FreeUndelete      http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/index.htm
Recovery My Files      http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
Stellar            http://www.stellarinfo.com/            
Restorer 2000      http://www.bitmart.net/
Ontrack            http://www.ontrack.com/
Easy Recovery      http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
Zero Assumption      http://www.z-a-recovery.com/setup.exe
Data Recovery Wizard Prof    http://easeus.com/datarecoverywizardpro/index.htm

 

by: dstewartjrPosted on 2009-02-13 at 12:42:49ID: 23637119

Here's another good free utility that claims to recover even after a crash

http://www.recuva.com/

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