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Hi guys,
Can anybody provide me some tips of how to recover my Assignment which is a corrupt microsoft document? Thanking in advance anybody who is willing to help me.
Cheers........

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A compact, practical recovery checklist and context that ties into points already raised by , , and .

First, preserve the original. Make a binary copy of the damaged .doc and work only on the copy so the original is not altered. Confirm the real filename and extension (enable "Show file name extensions" in Explorer) and where the file actually lives (local drive, network share, cloud or email). As and noted, those details determine which fixes are safe and possible.

Try Word's built-in repair options before third-party tools. Use Open > select the file > click the arrow on the Open button and choose "Open and Repair". If that fails, use the Open dialog's "Files of type" menu and choose "Recover Text from Any File" to extract plain text (formatting lost). In some cases inserting the damaged file into a new blank document (Insert > File) or starting Word in Safe Mode (run winword /safe) recovers content. Alternate editors like WordPad or LibreOffice sometimes import corrupted documents better than Word.

Raw-extraction and version checks. As suggested, a plain-text viewer can reveal raw text, but that is a last-resort and will lose formatting. Search for Word temp and AutoRecover artifacts (files beginning with "~$" , .tmp and .asd) and check Windows Previous Versions / Shadow Copies or cloud provider version history for earlier copies. For mail attachments, always download the attachment to disk first — some mail clients alter file headers.

When built-in recovery and temp-file lookups fail, deleted-file tools (the approach mentioned by ) only help if the original was removed. Otherwise consider reputable commercial repair tools or a data-recovery specialist; avoid writing to the affected disk and, where possible, work from a forensic disk image. Finally, adopt a simple backup routine (cloud or external drive) to avoid scramble situations in future.

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Member Avatar for Rik_

You have given us no information to work with.

What format is the document in? What did you create it with? What windows version do you have?

We can only work with the information you give us.

Member Avatar for pinkdiva

Did you delete that assignment or something?
You can recover your files using Recuva, a free recovery tool that finds your deleted files.
If you deleted your assignment like a very long time ago (couple of months or years), then probably it can't be recovered

http://www.recuva.com/download

If not because of being deleted, have a look at this google search result:

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=recover+corrupt+word+document&meta=&aq=0&oq=recover+co

Member Avatar for Dixy

Did you delete that assignment or something?
You can recover your files using Recuva, a free recovery tool that finds your deleted files.
If you deleted your assignment like a very long time ago (couple of months or years), then probably it can't be recovered

http://www.recuva.com/download

If not because of being deleted, have a look at this google search result:

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=recover+corrupt+word+document&meta=&aq=0&oq=recover+co

No, actually I did not delete the file, it is still here with me. The problem I have with it is that I cannot open it. Regarding its format, it is a mirosoft word(2003) document. Thank you for your help...
Regards

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Often you can crack open a corrupted Word document using Notepad. Simply open Notepad and drag the respective file into the open window. It will be minus any formatting, but will at least give you what ever you've written, which can then be cut-and-pasted into a new Word document and cleaned up from there

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Where does this document reside?? Does this document reside on your local drive C:, Network, or Outlook?

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Is this an actually a word doc? Is the file extension .doc or docx? If the file extension is not of this format, its not a word doc..

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Is this an actually a word doc? Is the file extension .doc or docx? If the file extension is not of this format, its not a word doc..

That is actually incorrect. Have found on occaision that downloading an attached document from email (wife has often had this issue with Gmail), where the file extension is either lopped or altered... is still a Word doc despite the extension change. Even if corrupted (ie, the XML metadata within the container corrupted), opening in Notepad will still allow access to the raw document information.

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