Cannot open DOC files recovered by PhotoRec
Posted: 28 Nov 2013, 17:20
I cannot open any of the DOC files recovered by PhotoRec. I tried a bunch of tools to open them - Word, Wordpad, OpenOffice, some picture viewers, WinZip, Freefileviewer etc.. - all with no luck.
Wordpad shows a bunch of pages with a lot of characters but no text of any kind that I could use to decipher what the file may consist of. One thing I note is that when I open the document, it shuts down my browser (Firefox) and I cannot figure out why.
Can anybody help me with this? May be these documents are not DOC files and PhotoRec improperly assigned them as such. One thing to note is that I did not have Word on my crashed system so all doc files were created using OpenOffice (as ODT).
The start of one of the files in Wordpad looks like this:
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Thanks very much for any pointers.
Wordpad shows a bunch of pages with a lot of characters but no text of any kind that I could use to decipher what the file may consist of. One thing I note is that when I open the document, it shuts down my browser (Firefox) and I cannot figure out why.
Can anybody help me with this? May be these documents are not DOC files and PhotoRec improperly assigned them as such. One thing to note is that I did not have Word on my crashed system so all doc files were created using OpenOffice (as ODT).
The start of one of the files in Wordpad looks like this:
×X,¶¢MJ8ÕŽì0aœƒ]Ø,ê>~‡>#
ZnÎ~ÏFºEyçŒ ÚH'ÖÜ_Gi¦4g’À}éZ:Ö«=Ô!X*&:/zäoä¡ï)éí^J
’9©ãå-44¯êÈ°‰_ËVÈPp+¯²ñ¦¬ÚéVÌè²dncЃ^w§Â^U»
Ý›·ÏO =…[RÖlÔÑ-0¢÷Ït–ôÏj«¥Úü c5ÞøGÁº¦±* dŒõv3û:‘êe—SS¯Ï-–¦6•¦M{ †šIðWªø3á‹9K\àu
î<àÍ;AJF$¸#摇5Õ"€8¯µg]Uí*9È©¥i¶º}ºÁk
ÆŠ1€*î8¢”ô®Ÿ
Thanks very much for any pointers.