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9/17/2011 11:11:25 AM EDT
Is there any way to recover allor part of a corrupted MS Word/Works file? I have about 7 pages of a document that supposedly is corrupted.
9/17/2011 11:48:08 AM EDT
[#1]
open it with winrar (or similar), navigate to /word/document.xml. open, then copy/paste into a new doc.
9/18/2011 4:44:15 AM EDT
[#2]
Tried it. The free demo of it didn't do any good for me and I don't want to spend any ca$h on something that doesn't seem to work...

I DID try something on this page:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-ways-to-recover-a-corrupted-word-document/952

They suggest saving the document in a different format than the .doc file it was in, like .rtf or .txt. I tried both of these and at least I am able to get the original text back without the Word formatting.

There are some other things they suggest, like using chkdsk to see if the corrupt file is due to a corrupt disk system.
9/18/2011 7:01:10 AM EDT
[#3]
is this on a server or workstation/ laptop?     server have shadow copy enabled?  

link  <–– has been very helpfull in the past