Re: Recover corrupted text

de Al Klein 04/19/2006 02:10

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:26:05 -0700, ms <ms@nospam.com> wrote:

>I used Restoration to recover a plain text file from the Recycle Bin.

>About 50% of the text is corrupted in the form:
>²Õà?Ë*
ÿû

>Can this text be salvaged?

It's not so much that the text is corrupted, but that the file links
are. What you're looking at is most likely part of another deleted
file. Delete the "corrupted" parts and fill in what's missing by
hand.

Restoring a deleted file is, at best, a chancy thing. If you've
written anything to that drive since the file was deleted it gets more
chancy. If you've rebooted (or turned the computer off) since the
file was deleted, you're lucky to have restored even 50%.

Is the missing text still on the drive? Maybe, but not in the links
for that file name. Try restoring other deleted files and see if the
text from that one is part of one of them, although the odds of that
aren't really good.