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Zip file did it, success. Recovered what I was looking for, thanks!

thanks, never knew that about extending the window size. Would .odt files that have never been compressed be found by that "zip archive" selection? if not, what other file types should I check off to find the .odt files?
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tom

I see in file options where file type can be selected, and I've selected .doc, but as I said above I do not see .odt. When you say some file types are summarized to one file type family, because it is not possible to enlarge the width of a dos box on windows 7 and two of the selections containing ...

For whatever reason, (maybe the drive has an intermittent problem?) I tried a 4th time and test disk and then photorec both worked this time, but I was hoping to recover ONLY .doc and .odt files. I see the .doc listed there in file types but am unable to enlarge the dos box on my win7 machine to see ...

Trying to repair or at least recover some data from a seagate 500mb HDD from an asus laptop that had multiple "windows repair your computer" attempts. it was a boot drive. I've got it in a USB portable HDD case attached to another PC. it shows up in windows as 2 partitions. In windows properties one ...