Search and Recover lost Microsoft Word documents

If you have a lot and are using Microsoft Word as your text processor, you have the right choice. Microsoft Word is probably the most powerful, with many features and handy for use by complete beginners and advanced professionals whole. It has unique strengths in creating, formatting and modifying all types of documents, notes from simple to complex reports. When you save a document in a version of Microsoft Word, it can usually in a different version without problems.

But what if the document you have so much time to just disappear? What can happen? First and possible, you can simply delete it by accident. One might think that this would never happen because the Windows Recycle Bin, and even if it is accidentally erased, just go on the Internet and get a free undelete utility. Well, it does not work so ...

Here is what happened to my wife a few weeks before. She was on a chapter for her doctoral thesis, and sent it to a professor for review. Normally, she gets back a document with embedded comments by e-mail. It saves an attachment from the e-mail, overwriting the old one, and deletes them from their Hotmail account. But this time, the things the wrong way. She received her chapter via e-mail, replacing the old with a new document, only to find out that her supervisor had a copy of the old one! She opened the trash and found out that the document was never cleared, but was replaced, it was not even in the trash. They tried an e-mail that they had previously, but not stored Hotmail messages sent. They asked me to do something to the document, and I downloaded a few free programs to go, only to find out that there are several dozen of deleted documents with that name. So, I have to the latest revisions.

This story has a happy end, as my wife supervisor discovered the latest version of the document on their computer. But one thing I learned from this story, was never in the trash, and free data recovery. To prevent such things happened, I have decided, after commercial alternatives.

I soon discovered that there are many data recovery offering on the market. Most of the products mentioned recovering deleted or corrupted files and documents, and some tools promise recovery of files even crashed or damaged disks. Basically there are two types of data recovery. They are different, as they find the lost files, and what they do to them again. Simple products such as the free undelete utilities, which I tried in my quest to deal with the file system. Simply scan the file system in search of records of files, which are marked "deleted", and clearly the brand. This is a fast and easy way to recover lost files, and it works sometimes, especially when a file is deleted only one minute.

These products, as I discovered from my own experience, not to do their job, if you have a complex case, or if you restore a failed hard disk, or if the file system is damaged. If your document has been recently deleted or overwritten by another file system, the chances for a successful recovery using these tools are slim.

The other type of product deals with your hard disk directly rather than scanning the file system, but these products are slow and expensive. I find it very complicated to use, because they do not show the names of the deleted documents, let alone its contents. These tools do not have access to the file, and are not aware of the files, the names, show documents as "document_001.doc" at best, but you see something like "~ ocume1" instead of a real name.

Then I found DiskInternals word recreation. It is an amazing thing, the best by a combination of other data recovery products, while at unprecedented efficiency, specifically with Microsoft Word documents, such as. DOC and. RTF. It scans the file system and learn about the files that were deleted the way to go free tools to do so. Then it goes further and scans the hard disk directly to locate Microsoft Word documents that are not in the file. It uses a list of file signatures to detect the beginning and the end of Microsoft Word documents and extracted their contents and meta-data "on the fly". This method is said to work, even if your hard drive is half dead!

DiskInternals Word Recovery synchronized the results, with the file system scan with the results, which is the access to the hard drive, in which the most complete list of eligible Word documents along with their file names, metadata and content, and provides the best ratio of recoverability.

If I wanted the latest version of Word document, I would simply "On the Fly" filters that allow only files with certain titles, written by certain authors, or files that contain specific text, by a certain size, or last saved at a certain time. The free version of Word DiskInternals Recovery provides full file preview to ensure that you back exactly what you want, and that you can use the document in its entirety with garbage or missing parts.

DiskInternals Word Recovery, if not free, but I am pleased with the free-rescue tool. You can, and try a version for free from http://www.diskinternals.com/ and only buy when you see that DiskInternals Word Recovery in fact deliver what others only offer the complete restoration of the lost Microsoft Word documents.

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By: Afonin, Oleg


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