My girlfriend has a mega important excel document on her memory stick which she doesnt back up dur

And she cant open it or copy it anywhere

When u try to open it says - cannot copy or read source file from the disk

We stried a little free recovery prog from the internet and it said stream read error


Anybody have any ideas how to recover it....its hugely important to her

 

any decent data recovery firm, 150-350 quid

 

Shit the bed!!!!!!!






Any chance of using some software to do it? Woould it need to be don eon the computer it fucked up on or could she post it to me and get me to take it somewhere?

 

Try this : http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/

 

http://www.ontrack.co.uk/

http://www.bitmart.net/

http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/

http://www.r-tt.com/

 

if the file is that important I would take the device to a data recovery specialist and pay the money myself.
Expecially if the device the file was on was had the FAT or NTFS filesystem

 

cheers guys

could using any of the above make it harder for the data recovery people if i have to bite the bullet and pay the money?

 

yes!!! leave it alone or risk losing it.

I can do it for you our work has a data recovery dept. (MOD so pretty good!)

 

Thats amazingly kind of you

However i cant get the file off the stick so i'd have to post it to you.

I might let you know

 

As per above, an IT expert type can do it, I had the same problem and gave it to our IT department and they got all the data off seemingly blank memory cars, hundreds of pictures

 

yeah you would have to send the stick mate, the file is corrupt or USB sticks file structure has corrupted.

are there any other files on there, do they work?

 

yes the other files work

i'll have the stick tomorrow so can get more info then

 

no worries

 

surely the she saved the data to the pc hard drive she was working on not just on the stick

 

No I love her dearly but shes so daft sometimes

 

hmmmmmmmmm no comment lol

 

a piece of software call Don't Panic works well