Corrupt txt

[tonyjones102]

Hi,

Before my last format and reinstall, I saved any important files to a DVD-R.

Unfortunately, it was a bad burn, and alot of the files and folders were corrupt.

I had an important .txt file on there, which when I opened, was just a line of jumbled characters.

Anyway I can get it back?

Thanks,

Tony

[Ace]

Unlikely. TBH, you stand more chance of pulling the file off of your formatted drive than you do with screwing around with that .txt. Programs like Ontrack EasyRecovery may help you here, although there are no guarantees. It depends where it was on the drive, what type of format you did, and how good you are at using the software. Plus I don't think it's that cheap...

If you want you can email me the file as an attachment and I can see if there's anything to be done with it, although I really doubt it. A .txt file can't really be deconstructed any more - it's nothing more than an ASCII string, and if the burn screwed up, all you have is that string, which happens to be wrong.

As I say, you may have more joy trying to pull the file off the HDD, in which case I'd advise you read some of the Ontrack information files regarding this - you really want a second HDD too to lessen your chances of overwriting the file again with the recovery program itself. Either way, I'd say you'd have to be pretty damn lucky to get the file back in one piece.